Authorities say a pair of attacks on police vehicles by suspected militants has killed six officers and a passerby in northwest Pakistan.

Pakistani air raids break fragile ceasefire as Islamabad faces pressure on both borders.

Pakistani security forces raided multiple locations and arrested four suspects, including the alleged mastermind, behind a suicide bombing at a Shiite mosque on the outskirts of the capital that killed 31 people, the interior minister said Saturday.

The attack is the latest in a spate of rising terrorism targeting security forces and government sites in the Pakistani provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan.

A paramilitary post in northwestern Pakistan was attacked with a drone loaded with explosives, wounding several officers, officials said.

Pakistan’s president warns that the Taliban's government in Afghanistan has created conditions “similar to or worse than” those before the 9/11 attacks in 2001.

Tensions in South Asia surged after Pakistan launched airstrikes inside Afghanistan on February 22, targeting suspected militant hideouts along the volatile border. According to the Associated Press,

Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry summoned a senior Afghan diplomat and lodged a strong protest over a deadly suicide attack earlier this week that killed 11 Pakistani soldiers and a girl near the Afghan border.