Parachinar, the capital of District Kurram in Kohat Division of K-P, has long stood as a grim symbol of the country's unresolved sectarian conflict. Over the years, this once peaceful region has been ...

Tens of thousands of people gathered for a sit-in protest in the town of Parachinar, Pakistan, on June 29 to demand better security a week after a double bombing in a market killed 75 people. The ...

Deadly sectarian clashes have cut off a mostly Shi’ite city in northwestern Pakistan from the rest of the Sunni-majority country. Locals in Parachinar say there has been a severe shortage of food, ...

Gunmen ambushed a convoy of vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, killing at least 38 people and wounding 20 others. The attack unfolded in Kurram, a ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 22 (Reuters) - Angry crowds gathered in the remote Pakistani mountain town of Parachinar on Friday, incensed by an attack on an escorted convoy of buses in which 40 Shi'ite ...

Sectarian violence has killed at least 130 people and wounded 200 others in Pakistan’s northwest in the last 10 days, officials said Sunday. Violence flared in Kurram district on November 21 when ...

PARACHINAR: A man and his daughter were killed on Friday, while another daughter was injured, when gunmen opened fire on a vehicle heading towards Parachinar in Makhi Zai, Lower Kurram. According to ...

A Pakistani official says the death toll from twin bombings at a crowded market at northwestern town of Parachinar has risen to 67, bringing the overall death toll from three separate attacks to ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on vehicles carrying Shiite Muslims in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Thursday, killing at least 38 people, including six women, and wounding 20 others in ...

Despite a ceasefire agreement negotiated three months ago-hailed as a landmark achievement between the government and local leaders in Parachinar-the only road linking the region to the rest of the ...