Nato has invited Pakistan’s president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to US and Nato military supplies heading to the war in the neighbouring country.

Pakistan’s army chief will convene a special meeting of senior commanders today following US allegations that the military’s spy agency helped militants attack American targets in Afghanistan, the army said.

Three al-Qaida members including a top operative believed to have been tasked by Osama bin Laden with targeting American economic interests around the world have been held in Pakistan.

A HOUSE panel is pushing ahead on a bill to block all US assistance to Pakistan unless the Obama administration reassures Congress that Islamabad is co-operating in the war on terrorism.

Pakistan has criticised the American raid that killed Osama bin Laden as an “unauthorised unilateral action” and warned Washington not to launch similar operations in the future.

Pakistan’s president has denied suggestions that his country’s security forces may have sheltered Osama bin Laden before he was killed by American forces, and said their co-operation with the United States helped pinpoint the world’s most wanted ma

US missiles killed 25 people in an al Qaida and Taliban sanctuary close to the Afghan border today, Pakistani officials said, signalling American intent to press ahead with such attacks despite renewed protests by Islamabad.

A suicide bomber linked to the Pakistani Taliban has killed 31 soldiers in an attack at an army training camp.

LAWYERS showered the suspected killer of a prominent Pakistani governor with rose petals when he arrived at court yesterday and an influential Muslim scholars group praised the assassination of the outspoken opponent of laws that order death for those who insult Islam.

A suspected US missile strike destroyed a home and a speeding vehicle carrying insurgents near the Afghan border early today, killing at least 15 alleged militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

US President Barack Obama urged India and Pakistan to talk to resolve their differences yesterday, as the focus of his trip switched to stability in the volatile region after a day of trade deals.

PAKISTAN battled yesterday to save areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the United Nations warned that 800,000 people in desperate need of aid had been cut off by the deluge.

Pakistan’s government should negotiate with the country’s Taliban militants to ease the relentless security crisis in the nuclear-armed, US-allied nation, the top opposition leader said.

PAKISTAN’S main spy agency continues to train, fund and arm the Taliban despite US pressure to sever ties with the group that Islamabad helped rise to power in Afghanistan in the 1990s, said a research report.

An Indian court is expected to give its verdict today in the trial of a Pakistani man accused of gunning down dozens of people during the November 2008 terror attacks in Mumbai.

THE Taliban’s top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as US troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

Pakistan and India will resume official talks later this month, Pakistani officials said today.

A suicide bomber today killed 12 people at a police checkpoint in a north-west Pakistani tribal area where the military declared victory over the Taliban and al-Qaida last year.

Pakistan may launch a new military offensive near the Afghan border where militant leaders are believed to have fled to escape a government onslaught against the Taliban in South Waziristan, the prime minister said.

Seven men were charged in Pakistan today over last year’s Mumbai terror attacks.

THE lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai attacks has said he is ready to go to the gallows and wants no mercy from the court for his role in one of India’s worst terrorist acts, which left 166 people dead.

The sole surviving gunman from last year’s Mumbai massacre dramatically admitted his guilt today in a detailed account of the plot that left 166 people dead.

THE trial of five men accused over the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in India is likely to start next week, Pakistan’s interior minister has said.

The trial of five men accused of the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in India is likely to start next week, Pakistan's interior minister said.

India’s prime minister today insisted it is time for peace with neighbouring Pakistan, but warned that relations between the two nuclear-armed rivals were still “under considerable stress” in the wake of last year’s terror attack in Mumbai.

A huge battle between the Taliban and Pakistani troops erupted in the Swat valley today.

SOMETIMES breaking into laughter, the man accused of being the lone surviving gunman in last year’s Mumbai attacks told an Indian court yesterday that he was from Pakistan and wanted legal assistance, officials said.

Pakistan reopened the main supply route for Nato troops in Afghanistan today after blocking it for three days during a campaign against militants who have been attacking convoys.

Pakistan began moving thousands of troops away from the Afghan border towards India today amid tensions following the Mumbai attacks.

The only surviving Mumbai massacre gunman has personally stated he is Pakistani in the face of efforts by Islamabad to distance itself from the terror attack.

India’s prime minister today said he wants “normalised” relations with Pakistan amid rising tensions between the South Asian rivals over the Mumbai attacks.

Pakistan was under pressure today to clamp down on an Islamic charity after the UN declared it a front for the group blamed for the Mumbai terrorist attacks.

A suspected mastermind behind the Mumbai massacre has been caught in a raid on a militant camp in Pakistani Kashmir.

Pakistani troops seized a camp used by the extremist group blamed in the Mumbai attacks and arrested more than 12 people, militants and a security official said today.

Pakistan understands it must take quick action against any terrorists connected to the Mumbai attacks that are living in the country, US Senator John McCain said today after meeting its leaders.

Police found two bombs at Mumbai’s main train station nearly a week after they were left there by gunmen behind the attacks – in a stunning new example of the botched security that has become a major issue in India since the deadly three-day siege.

The gunmen who attacked Mumbai set out by boat from Pakistan’s port of Karachi, a top police official said, as the US secretary of state headed today to India in Washington’s efforts to defuse tension between the two nuclear rivals.

India was warned of a terrorist attack by US intelligence officials before the Mumbai massacre, it emerged today.

India demanded that Islamabad hand over dozens of suspected terrorists believed to be living in Pakistan, including India’s most-wanted man.

Indian forces today claimed they would soon have Mumbai under full control after nearly two days of chaos and confusion that followed the terrorist attacks there.

Indian and Pakistani soldiers fought each other across the heavily armed Kashmir frontier in what the Indian army called the worst violation of a 2003 ceasefire agreement.

The Indian city of Jaipur was put under curfew today amid fears of retaliation against its Muslim minority after a series of bombs killed at least 80 people.

A large explosion went off near Islamabad’s Red Mosque today, officials said.

Islamabad’s Supreme Court today reinstated Pakistan’s top judge, ruling that his suspension by President Gen. Pervez Musharraf was illegal.