The Islamic State (IS) terror group on Saturday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan that killed 32 people, including three Pakistani Sikhs, and injured 40 others.

ISIS claims northwestern Pakistan attack

A powerful bomb blast ripped through a busy market outside a religious seminary in Pakistan's restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Friday, killing at least 25 people and injuring over 35 others, officials said.

25 killed, 35 injured in powerful blast in Pakistan's northwest tribal region

Khan will take oath as the sixth interim chief minister of the province

Justice Dost Mohammad Khan named caretaker CM of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

The power cuts have suspended work at factories and businesses in its industrial heartland and highlighting the challenges successive governments have faced in getting to grips with chronic power shortages.

Large parts of Pakistan hit by power cut

Earthquake tremors were felt in parts of Peshawar, Nowshera, and Kohat, along with Swat, Malakand division, Manshera, Dera Ismail Khan, Swat, Abbottabad, and Mardan.

Strong 5.8-magnitude earthquake rattles Pakistan's Islamabad, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Originally founded in 2014 in Pakistan's FATA region, the PTM has been protesting against forced disappearances of Pashtuns.

Opinion: Of Pashtuns and provocation

A US-based Mohajir group has urged all ethnic and religious groups to unite and form a 'greater alliance' against the government's discriminatory policies

US-based Mohajirs seek alliance of ethnic minorities in Pakistan

PTI candidate Arbab Amir Ayub clinched 45,631 votes, about 34.8 percent of the total, on Thursday to ensure PTI kept the parliamentary seat in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) that it governs.

Imran Khan's PTI retains seat in bypoll, but new religious parties gain

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban's Jamaat-ur-Ahrar faction claimed responsibility for the attack in the northwestern town of Charsadda

Suicide bombers hit court complex in Pakistan, 5 dead

Asif Ali Zardari pointed out that the current head of the seminary is an acknowledged sympathiser and undeclared spokesperson of the Taliban

Former Pak President calls funding to private seminary in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 'legitimisation of millitancy'