A pair of suicide bombers attacked the house of a top military officer in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta today, killing his wife and 18 other people, at least eight of them soldiers, authorities said.

A girl of nine has told how she escaped Pakistani terrorists who tried to use her as a human bomb.

sAround 150 militants attacked five security posts in a tribal area near the Afghan border overnight, sparking a clash that killed three soldiers and 24 insurgents, the Pakistani military said.

Hundreds of Islamist militants have attacked a checkpoint on Pakistan’s Afghan border, and nearly three dozen Pakistani paramilitary troops are missing, security officials said today.

Pakistani security forces killed 29 militants in two troubled tribal regions near Afghanistan today, officials said, as troops pressed on with operations aimed at flushing out insurgents who have threatened the state.

PAKISTANI troops repulsed a Taliban attack on a checkpoint close to the Afghan border yesterday in fighting that killed six soldiers and 25 insurgents, the military said.

Pakistani troops repulsed a Taliban attack on a checkpoint close to the Afghan border today in fighting that killed six soldiers and 25 insurgents, the military said.

Pakistani airstrikes killed nine suspected insurgents today in a tribal region near the Afghan border.

A roadside bomb killed three US soldiers and flattened a girls’ school in north-west Pakistan today in an attack that drew attention to a US military training mission in the al Qaida and Taliban heartland.

Three US soldiers were among seven people killed today in a roadside bomb blast near a girls' school in north-west Pakistan, security officials said.

Eighteen militants were killed in an attack on insurgents blamed for a wave of bombings in the main north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, a security official said today.

A suicide bomber blew himself up today in a market in Pakistan’s north west crowded with shoppers ahead of a Muslim holiday, killing 12 people, including a mayor who once supported but had turned against the Taliban, officials said.

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.

Pakistani troops have defeated Taliban militants in one of their strongholds overlooking the Afghan border after a grinding six-month offensive, the general leading the military operation said today.

Security forces have clashed with militants in two north-west Pakistani tribal regions, killing more than 50 alleged insurgents, a paramilitary statement and a government official.

PAKISTANI forces bombed dozens of houses in a tribal region near the Afghan border yesterday, officials and witnesses said, amid reports that days of clashes have killed at least 100 insurgents and nine paramilitary troops.

Pakistani forces bombed dozens of houses in a tribal region near the Afghan border today, officials and witnesses said, amid reports that days of clashes have killed at least 100 insurgents and nine paramilitary troops.

PAKISTANI paramilitary forces destroyed a handful of militant centres and uncovered alleged torture cells as they pressed ahead yesterday with an offensive against extremists near the Afghan border, officials said.

The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan said he is suspending peace talks with the government because of a military offensive against militants in Khyber.

A local government official says Pakistan has launched a military operation against Taliban militants who have been threatening the main city in the country’s volatile north-west.

A US airstrike killed 11 Pakistani troops on the border with Afghanistan straining relations between the two supposed partners in the war on terror.

Pakistan has blamed the US for an airstrike that killed at least 11 of its troops on the Afghan border.

Hundreds of Islamic fanatics overran a remote military outpost close to the Afghan border killing or kidnapping more than 20 Pakistani soldiers.

A home-made bomb exploded at the main square of a remote town in south-western Pakistan, killing one passer-by and slightly injuring three others, police said today.

Seventeen minority Hindus were killed when their temple was hit by rockets during fighting between renegade tribesmen and security forces in a tribal town in south-western Pakistan, a government official said today.