Pakistan

Pistol-wielding gunmen in Pakistan's biggest city Karachi stormed a bus carrying members of the Shiite Ismaili minority May 13, killing at least 43 in the first attack in the country officially claimed by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). 

Motorcycle riding armed men killed at least 43 people in Karachi, Pakistan.

The majority of people on the bus were Shiites. At least 20 more were wounded by the attack, while no terrorist organization has assumed responsibility.

Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a bus in Pakistan's southern city of Karachi on May 13, killing at least 43 people, police said, in the latest attack directed against religious minorities this year. 

Television channels carried pictures of a pink bus covered in bullet holes and lines of waiting ambulances. 

Romania's ambassador to Islamabad, Pakistan, Emilian Ion told AGERPRES on Sunday that he feels physically and mentally good, that he resumed work, blaming the helicopter crash in Pakistan he survived on a technical fault.

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'I am at work. I have resumed work and I am in a very good physical and mental shape,' said Ion.

Foreign Affairs Minister Bogdan Aurescu said that Romania's Ambassador to Pakistan, who was traveling in a Pakistani army helicopter that crashed on Friday in the north of the country, has returned to Islamabad on Saturday.

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Spokesperson for Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) Raluca Lunculescu said Friday that the Romanian diplomat aboard a helicopter that crashed in Pakistan earlier in the day was slightly injured; although he was rushed to a hospital in the region, he did not need hospitalisation for his injuries and it is now safely in the town of Gilgit.

Seven people were killed after an army helicopter crashed in a mountainous region in the Gilgit-Baltistan territory in northern Pakistan on Friday.

The causes of the crash remain unknown, as some sources say that the helicopter crashed during an emergency landing, while others claim it was taken down by Talibans.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday announced that he received the confirmation the Romanian Ambassador in Pakistan is currently completely out of danger.

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Foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State of Iraq (ISIL) and the Levant are training Taliban insurgents in a restive Afghan province, an official said May 8, the first such claim as the government raises the alarm over an emerging ISIL threat.

President Klaus Iohannis on Friday extended condolences to the countries whose citizens were killed in a helicopter crash in northern Pakistan.

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