Armed conflicts in Pakistan

Attacks near the Gabd border crossing and in Gwadar city on Thursday left one civilian dead and several vehicles damaged, the military's media wing ISPR said, attributing them to what it calls Fitna al-Hindustan. It said no security personnel were killed.

Four police personnel, including Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) DSP Imranuddin, were killed in an exchange of fire with armed men in the Khurram Muhammad Zai area of Karak district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, police said.

Unidentified armed men took passengers from a coach and security guards from a sugar mills bus near Cheera Minor on the Indus Highway in DI Khan between Tuesday and Wednesday, reports said. Five passengers were later released, while 17 mill workers remained missing; police said an operation was under way to recover them.

An additional station house officer of Miranshah police station, Meera Khan, was shot dead by unidentified armed men near Miranshah Bypass in North Waziristan on Tuesday evening, police officials said. District Police Officer Sajjad Hussain said police had launched a search operation to trace the attackers.

The military's media wing ISPR said on 19 October that Major Wajahat Waheed, 34, was killed by an improvised explosive device during clearance operations in the Shadi Kaur area of Pasni tehsil, Gwadar district.

State media reported that the Pakistan Army responded to what it called unprovoked firing by the Afghan Taliban in Upper Kurram and Ghozgarhi, hitting the Topsar post and Shipola base camp with artillery fire.

Unidentified armed men abducted 20 trainee police personnel travelling from Kalat to Nushki in a private van in Balochistan, officials told The Express Tribune. The men, former Levies members, were taken to Mastung district, and efforts to recover them were under way.

Unidentified gunmen shot dead two police head constables on patrol near Bedar Bridge in Balochistan's Nasirabad district and took their weapons, police told The Express Tribune. Families of the dead blocked the Sindh-Balochistan National Highway with the bodies in protest.

Attackers struck the Spina Mela police checkpost in Hassan Khel, Peshawar, killing a police constable, Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Mian Saeed Ahmad said on Friday. Police returned fire and the attackers fled; a search operation was launched.

The National Assembly and the Senate endorsed President Asif Ali Zardari's proclamation of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, passing resolutions by majority votes despite opposition objections. The federal government imposed the emergency and governor's rule on 11 October, suspending the provincial administration led by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI).

Security forces killed five militants and injured four others in an intelligence-based operation in Washuk district, Balochistan, against what the government designates Fitna al-Hindustan, state media reported, citing security sources.

Pakistan declared a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, effectively suspending the provincial government run by Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf; the prime minister's office cited the provincial government's 'deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism'. The governor will run the province with an advisory council, initially for six months, Law Minister Azam Nazeer Tarar said.

Security forces killed 12 'khawarij and Afghan Taliban' while thwarting an infiltration attempt from Afghanistan in Kurram district, and one soldier was killed, the military's media wing said; it said Afghan Taliban posts had opened fire to support the infiltration attempt.

Five people, including four Federal Board of Revenue officials and a traffic police officer, were killed in separate shootings in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the district police officer said; in one, a highway patrol vehicle came under fire and its driver was killed.

Moscow Format consultations on Afghanistan ended without a joint statement, mainly because of disagreements between the Pakistani and Afghan delegations, Dawn reported; the Afghan side objected to references placing Afghanistan in a terrorist context.

Overnight Pakistani airstrikes in Afghanistan's Kunar and Helmand provinces killed at least 10 civilians, most of them children, according to the UN mission in Afghanistan. Pakistan said it hit TTP and Balochistan Liberation Army hideouts and killed 22 fighters.

Two Rescue 1122 workers were killed when their ambulance came under fire while it carried victims of the Dera Ismail Khan checkpoint bombing, 24NewsHD reported, as the bombing's toll rose to 13.

A suicide bomber drove an explosives-laden vehicle into a police checkpoint in Dera Ismail Khan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing at least 12 people and wounding 30, police said.

Pakistan said it struck ten locations in Afghanistan used to store and launch drones, after what it called a drone incursion the day before. The Taliban government said the strikes hit Kandahar, Paktia and Khost and killed at least four people.

Pakistan carried out airstrikes in Afghanistan's Kunar and Paktika provinces after nearly three months of relative calm; it said 28 fighters were killed, while Afghan officials said three members of one family died in Kunar.

A suicide car bombing at a mosque inside a police headquarters in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and the gun battle that followed killed at least 31 people; Ittehadul Mujahideen, a faction linked to the Pakistan Taliban, claimed it.

Pakistan and Afghanistan announced a five-day pause in hostilities for Eid al-Fitr from 19 March, which Pakistan's information minister said Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Turkey had requested.

An air strike on Kabul's Omar Addiction Treatment Hospital killed 143 people by the UN mission's count; the Taliban government, which put the toll above 400, blamed Pakistan, which denied targeting civilians.

Pakistan struck military targets in Kabul, Kandahar and Paktia after Afghan Taliban forces attacked its border posts, and its defence minister called the situation open war.

Coordinated attacks claimed by the Balochistan Liberation Army struck about a dozen places across Balochistan. Pakistani forces said they killed 145 fighters in the following operations.

Pakistan said its talks with Afghanistan's Taliban government had ended in deadlock.

After a week of fighting that began when Pakistan struck what it called militant hideouts inside Afghanistan, the two governments agreed a ceasefire in Doha under Qatari and Turkish mediation.