A suicide bomb blast targeting an Islamic party chief killed at least 13 people in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, officials said the second attack against him and his supporters in two days.

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Pakistani security forces on Tuesday pounded terrorist hideouts in the restive Orakzai tribal region and clashed with Taliban fighters in the Northwestern Swat district, killing at least 12 terrorists.

A bomb blast ripped through a mosque within a Sufi shrine at Nowshera in Northwest Pakistan on Friday, killing at least eight persons and injuring 30 others.

Gunmen on motorbikes wounded 15 girls when they opened fire with pistols and lobbed grenades at a college party in Northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, the police said.

A US drone struck a vehicle in a terrorist stronghold in Northwest Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region near Afghan border on Sunday, killing at least four militants.

At least three persons, including two soldiers, were killed and seven others injured when a roadside bomb went off in the restive Orakzai tribal region of Northwest Pakistan on Saturday.

A minibus explosion in Northwest Pakistan that killed 17 people and injured 11 others on Monday was a terrorist attack triggered by a timed bomb, the police told AFP.

Six Taliban militants were killed on Friday as US Predator drones targeted a vehicle used by them in the lawless North Waziristan tribal region of northwest Pakistan, officials said.

About 150 Taliban militants attacked five security posts in the restive Mohmand tribal region in northwest Pakistan early on Friday, triggering a gun battle that killed three soldiers and 24 terrorists, security officials said.

Taliban militants in Northwest Pakistan attacked Nato oil supply trucks with rockets and assault rifles Monday, destroying two vehicles, officials said.