Pakistan Tribesmen

The bullet-riddled bodies of six anti-Taliban militia fighters were discovered today in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, taking the number of tribesmen found executed by Islamists this week to 11.

A Pakistani government official says militants have released over 90 tribesmen they abducted from a tribal festival in the northwest but still hold seven influential men.

Pakistan's tribal belt may have been dubbed the world's most dangerous place by the United States, but enthusiastic tribesmen are defying the Taliban to vote for change at next week's polls.

Pashtun Tribesmen from northwest Pakistan dumped 15 bloody bodies in front of government offices on Wednesday, protesting against what they said were extra-judicial killings by security forces in the latest challenge to the government's authority.

A suicide bomber targeted pro-government tribal elders in Pakistan's north-western frontier Saturday, killing eight men, officials said, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a visit here implored Pakistanis to take decisive steps to fight terrorism.Ten people were also wounded when a bomb ripped through a restaurant at ...

The bullet-riddled bodies of six anti-Taliban militia fighters were discovered today in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said Wednesday, taking the number of tribesmen found executed by Islamists this week to 11.

A Pakistani government official says militants have released over 90 tribesmen they abducted from a tribal festival in the northwest but still hold seven influential men.

Pakistan's tribal belt may have been dubbed the world's most dangerous place by the United States, but enthusiastic tribesmen are defying the Taliban to vote for change at next week's polls.

Pashtun Tribesmen from northwest Pakistan dumped 15 bloody bodies in front of government offices on Wednesday, protesting against what they said were extra-judicial killings by security forces in the latest challenge to the government's authority.

A suicide bomber targeted pro-government tribal elders in Pakistan's north-western frontier Saturday, killing eight men, officials said, a day after U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton during a visit here implored Pakistanis to take decisive steps to fight terrorism.Ten people were also wounded when a bomb ripped through a restaurant at ...