Pakistan's president said his government would not be deterred from eliminating extremists, despite a wave of attacks today which left at least 26 people dead in Lahore.

A wave of violence engulfed Pakistan today as gunmen stormed a government building in Lahore and attacked two police academies near the city - one of them an elite commando training centre.

A Pakistani intelligence agency has revealed that they have proof that a banned militant group was directly involved in last year’s terror attacks in Mumbai.

Two massive suicide bombs destroyed a police headquarters and a business in Pakistan today killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200.

THREE of the four suspected suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks in London travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan last year, an immigration official said yesterday, as authorities tried to determine whether extremists in Pakistan had aided the deadly attacks.

Three of the four suspected suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks in London travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan in 2004, but the purpose of their visits was unclear, an immigration official said today.

INCREASED US fears of terror attacks may not be unfounded. The Hajj, the huge annual Muslim pilgrimage to Islam’s holy city of Mecca, can provide cover for militant organisations attempting to secretly place operatives around the globe to stage attacks.