Pakistani official says gunmen open fire near army headquarters outside Islamabad

September 2nd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Unknown gunmen opened fire on a government minister's vehicle in the Pakistani capital Islamabad Wednesday, injuring the official and killing his driver, witnesses said. Hamid Saeed Kazmi, the minister for religious affairs, was a few hundred meters from his office in the centre of the city when a man fired several shots with an AK-47 rifle at his vehicle, said Jamil Ahmad, a vendor who witnessed the attack.

September 2nd, 2009 Gunmen wound Pakistan religious affairs ministerISLAMABAD — Police say gunmen have shot and wounded Pakistan's religious affairs minister in an attack in the capital. Police office Mohammad Ishfaq says minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi was in his car when the attack took place Wednesday in Islamabad.

September 2nd, 2009 Pakistani religion minister wounded in ambushISLAMABAD — Gunmen opened fire on a vehicle carrying Pakistan's religious affairs minister Wednesday, wounding him and killing his driver. The attack on Hamid Saeed Kazmi took place close to his office in the capital, Islamabad.

August 23rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Unidentified gunmen shot dead two military officers in Pakistan's northwest, according to media reports Sunday. Police sources were quoted as saying that some armed men opened indiscriminate fire late Saturday night on military intelligence officer Aftab Alam and military transport battalion official Ameer Hamza in front of their homes in the military area at Nowshera, a garrison city some 100 km northwest of Islamabad.

July 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Islamabad has ordered a probe into the alleged killing of a Pakistani national by the Indian security forces at the Wagah border crossing, a media report said Sunday. The Pakistani youth died after India's Border Security Force and Pakistan Rangers exchanged fire at the Wagah border Saturday night, the Online news agency reported.

July 2nd, 2009 Pakistan police say 5 dead in suicide blastRAWALPINDI, Pakistan — A senior police official says at least five people have been killed in a suicide attack on a government bus near the Pakistani capital. Rawalpindi police chief Nasir Durrani said the attacker was on a motorcycle.

July 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Militants killed 18 of their own wounded men whom they could not take along while retreating from an area in the restive Swat valley, the Pakistani army has said. "We have received information that during the clearance of Biha valley, 18 wounded terrorists who could not be taken to safety were slaughtered by their own men on the orders of their commanders," Dawn quoted the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) as saying Tuesday.

May 15th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - No time frame has been laid down for the military operations against the Taliban in Pakistan's restive northwest, the defence minister has said, while the junior interior minister said it would be completed in a month. 'The army is clearing the areas gradually and no time frame could be given in this regard,' Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar told the APP news agency.

May 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Thursday paid a surprise visit to Swat in the country's troubled northwest where the security forces are engaged in an offensive against the Taliban that has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 800 militants.

May 14th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani Thursday paid a surprise visit to Swat in the country's troubled northwest where the security forces are engaged in an offensive against the Taliban that has so far resulted in the deaths of more than 800 militants.

April 23rd, 2009 Police: Gunmen kill officer in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police say gunmen fired on a vehicle escorting paramilitary troops through a Pakistani district recently infiltrated by the Taliban. The troops were among those deployed Wednesday to protect government buildings and bridges in Buner, a district near the capital of Islamabad.

April 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Taliban militants have blown up the house of a former Pakistani minister in the Swat valley, Geo TV reported Wednesday. The gunmen seized the house of Ameer Muqam in the Bahrain area, and later blew up the house with explosives, the report said.

February 16th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's army Tuesday decided to hold fire and respect an agreement signed between the government and militants to enforce Islamic law in the violence-hit Swat valley, a media report said. 'The army works on the government's orders.

February 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Unidentified gunmen Monday kidnapped a senior official of the United Nations refugee agency in Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan, the police said. The kidnappers intercepted the vehicle of the local head of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) soon after he left his residence in the provincial capital, Quetta, a police officer said.

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a government official and three other people Friday in northern Pakistan, the police said. Abdul Wahid, director of agriculture department, was killed when his car came under attack near Gilgit, capital city of the Northern Areas, News Network International (NNI) news agency quoted police as saying.