Three policemen were killed and six others injured as gunmen attacked a police check post in northwest Pakistan on Thursday morning, police said.   The attackers, armed with heavy weapons, launched a barrage of gunfire at the Bahadur Khel check post in Karak district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

A police officer working on Pakistan's first polio vaccination drive of the year was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen.

The Pakistani Taliban claimed the killing of a police officer as he travelled Monday to guard polio vaccinators on the first day of a nationwide immunisation effort after a year