PAKISTAN

The attack targeted a paramilitary vehicle outside a government compound in the Jamrud area of the Khyber region.

The medical charity said that a Bollywood movie, which portrays an aid worker secretly carrying guns and assisting in murders, could endanger its agents in conflict zones.

Tensions have been running high between the nuclear-armed neighbors since peace talks that were due to be held last weekend were called off at the last minute.

A security official in the western town of Zuwara, from where the overcrowded boat had set off, said there were around 400 people on board.

Ahmadiyya Muslims worldwide have pledged allegiance to an Islamic caliphate, but not the one making headlines.

While India is a far wealthier country with greater resources, international estimates suggest that Pakistan has around 120 warheads, while India has 100.

The Asian country is the world's No. 2 defense spender and No. 3 exporter of weapons.

Afghanistan and Pakistan accuse each other of doing too little to prevent Taliban fighters and other Islamist militants from operating on their territory.

The collapse of planned peace talks between India and Pakistan hours before they were to start on Sunday has raised questions about the arch-rivals' willingness to overcome mutual mistrust, built since their separation almost seven decades ago.

Malala Yousafzai, an advocate for girls' education who was shot by the Taliban, has been given protection by British authorities after recent threats to her life.

Pakistan has called off high-profile talks with India that had been designed to discuss cooperation and peace between the two countries.

The Pakistani military says it has entered the late stages of a campaign to drive Taliban militants away from the Afghan border.

More than $2 million was raised in less than a week to help being and end to bonded labor in the Middle Eastern country.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack in Punjab that killed a provincial minister from Pakistan and 20 others.

Police said the blast appeared to be a large bomb, and it had caused the roof to cave in as the home minister of Punjab province, Shuja Khanzada, held meetings with supporters in his hometown of Attock in northern Pakistan.

Tributes for Pakistan's late former military spy chief Lieutenant General Hamid Gul poured in on Sunday, words bound to infuriate Pakistan's neighbors after he spent a career promoting Islamic militancy in Afghanistan and India.

Hundreds of Syrian migrants on the Greek island of Kos on Sunday began boarding a passenger ship that is to house and process them, in a bid to ease sometimes chaotic conditions onshore.

Costa Rica's Ministry of Justice and Peace posted a mugshot online of the bird, using the headline "narcopaloma," meaning "drugs dove."

Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, was on a family vacation when he was taken ill.

India gained its independence from Britain in 1947.

Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri pledges allegiance to the Afghan Taliban.