Taleban attacks Pakistan air force base
Islamist militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons fought their way into one of Pakistan's largest air bases, the air force says, in a brazen challenge to the nuclear-armed country's powerful military. Ref. Stuff.co.nz
Pakistan: Eight soldiers, 10 militants killed in SWA clashes:
Eighteen people, eight of them Pakistan Army soldiers and 10 militants, were killed and 16 others injured in fighting between security forces and militants in the remote mountainous Ghatsar area of Tiarza subdivision in South Waziristan Agency on Wednesday. Ref. Source 7
Pakistan : 29 Taliban fighters killed at Afghan border:
The Pakistani military said it killed 29 Taliban fighters on Wednesday, Sept 17, in the final stage of an operation aimed at forcing hundreds of insurgents back across the border into Afghanistan, Reuters reported. Ref. Source 1
18 killed in van attack in Pakistan's Balochistan:
At least 18 people, including women and children, were killed when gunmen opened indiscriminate fire at a passenger van at a petrol station that triggered a huge fire in the Pakistan's restive Balochistan province. Ref. Source 1
Suicide blast in northern Pakistan leaves 3 killed:
At least three policemen were reportedly killed and about five others were wounded in a suicide blast Friday evening in Pakistan's northern district, said police. Ref. Source 8