Pakistan’s president turned over command of the country’s nuclear arsenal to his political ally the prime minister and signalled he was ready to shed more power amid growing pressure to resign.

Pakistan’s army lifted its curfew in the battle-scarred Swat Valley today, allowing thousands to flee as troops prepared for street-by-street battles with Taliban militants entrenched in the valley’s biggest town.

A SUICIDE bomberattacked a crowded Shi’ite mosque south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad yesterday, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the US-allied nation, officials said.

A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad today, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the US-allied nation, officials said.