The southeastern country is witnessing increased attacks on security forces after The banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ended a cease-fire with the government last November.
Authorities confirm no breakthrough in talks with militants who demand "safe passage" after they over a portion of a police station in northwest Pakistan.
Suspected militants stormed a police station in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The attack comes a week after Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan ended a ceasefire with the government this week.
Using ciphered words such as “boogaloo” far-right groups have breached Facebook's anti-violence filters, doubling their membership and calling for militant uprisings in the US.
The escape of a notorious militant and the strong-arming of the state by a radical cleric has brought Pakistan's fight against militancy into question.
Questions are being raised on social media about the whereabouts of Ehsanullah Ehsan following reports of the former TTP spokesman's claims that he had escaped from the Pakistani custody. Authorities have remained silent so far.
Powerful blast claimed by Daesh also kills senior police officer, wounds 20 others in southwest Quetta city, officials say.
An escalated conflict between the US and Iran will reverberate in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
Pakistan's military says the army men, including a captain, were killed in attacks near the north-western border with Afghanistan and south-western Balochistan province.
"New Pakistan" has been Khan's catchphrase since he re-entered politics, promising to change the status quo. His new interior minister Ijaz Shah is a retired brigadier and ex-spy chief whom slain former PM Benazir Bhutto regarded as a deadly enemy.
Pushed into the shadows, the armed group largely operates from the bordering provinces of Afghanistan, mostly targeting Pakistan's impoverished Balochistan province.
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