A Pakistani judicial official has overturned the 33-year jail sentence passed on Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped CIA agents hunting for al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden who was killed in 2011.

A suicide bomber has killed 23 people, many of them believed to be militants, in an attack on the base of a rival insurgent group in Pakistan.

A bomb at a mosque in Pakistan’s north-western tribal belt killed 29 people today.

An explosion apparently caused by a suicide vest stored in a house in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed eight suspected militants today.