Pakistani police say a powerful bomb has exploded at an open-air market in the south-western city of Quetta,killing at least seven people and wounding 20 others.
A suicide bomber killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards in mid-February,part of a rise in attacks by militants from the Sunni Muslim minority.
It’s impossible to stop technological change - and early use of tactical warheads is becoming a real option.
India's air chief won't confirm the death toll from last week's strike on an alleged terrorist training camp in Pakistan,fuelling doubts over its success.
The prospect of a major conflict erupting between India and Pakistan,which was a real fear just a few days ago,may have receded somewhat.
India and Pakistan again targeted each other's posts and villages along the volatile frontier in disputed Kashmir,killing civilians and soldiers.
Qamar Javed Bajwa told them Pakistan would"surely respond to any aggression in self-defence"
Climber Tom Ballard is missing about 100 miles southwest from where his mother Alison Hargreaves died in 1995.
After days of military conflict,Pakistan's PM offers a way out of the crisis and positions the country as the cooler head in a confrontation that has put the world on edge.
Right now,the more extensive and damaging war in South Asia is the multi-pronged assault on reality by social media,hyper-nationalist news channels and mendacious governments.
Indian and Pakistani troops traded fire briefly along the contested border in Kashmir on Thursday morning,a day after the two nuclear powers both downed enemy jets.