Pakistan police arrested three Taliban militants planning "big terror attacks" on Saturday amid a wave of violence engulfing the financial hub Karachi, the force said. "The three men, who belong to Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested from the Site industrial area during a police encounter on Saturday morning," a senior police official, Raja Omar Khittab told AFP. Bomb attacks ...

Gunmen have shot dead seven people in separate incidents in Pakistan's restive southwest, police said Saturday. At least three Shiite Muslims were killed on Saturday when two men riding a motorbike opened fire on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan. "All three men died on the spot," senior ...

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Indian investigators will be given access to the Chicago man who pleaded guilty to helping plan the Mumbai attacks, but he won't be extradited to India on current charges, a U.S. official said on Saturday. New Delhi wants to interrogate David Headley, who this week admitted to a U.S. court to scouting targets for ...

US envoy Richard Holbrooke praised Friday the arrests of Taliban leaders, despite a former UN envoy's claim that they disrupt reconciliation efforts with the group. A slew of senior Taliban chiefs have reportedly been captured in Pakistan in recent weeks. Among them was Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, captured last month in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi ...