At least 45 people have been killed as a passenger jet crashed in Pakistan today, government officials said.

At least five bodies have been recovered from the wreckage of a passenger plane that crasehd in Pakistan with 152 people on board, Pakistani officials have said.

A domestic passenger plane that crashed into the hills in Pakistan’s capital today was carrying 152 people, an official said.

A suicide bomber struck an area full of government buildings in Pakistan’s main north-west city today, killing four people and underscoring that militant groups retain strength despite being under siege by the army.

Gunmen armed with rifles and hand grenades attacked a police training academy in eastern Pakistan today, killing 11 officers and wounding dozens in a brazen assault that underscored the growing threat militancy poses to the US-allied, nuclear-armed country.