Pakistan state TV said the death toll from an alleged Nato helicopter attack on a Pakistani army checkpoint near the Afghan border has risen to 25 soldiers.

The Taliban released a video today showing fighters executing 16 Pakistani tribal police officers who were captured in a cross-border raid from Afghanistan earlier this summer.

PAKISTAN has called on the US to share information about new al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri after US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta said he believed that Osama bin Laden’s successor was in Pakistan.

A Nato helicopter has attacked a Pakistani army post on the border with Afghanistan, injuring two soldiers, Pakistan intelligence officials said.

A Pakistani boy who took part in a suicide mission that killed more than 40 people at a Sufi shrine sought forgiveness in a television interview from his hospital bed.

A Pakistani boy who took part in a suicide mission that killed more than 40 people at a Sufi shrine sought forgiveness today in a television interview from his hospital bed.

Two American missile attacks killed 15 people in north-west Pakistan today.

THREE bombs ripped through a Shi’ite Muslim religious procession in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore yesterday, killing 25 people and wounding about 150 others, officials said.

Pakistan army jets and helicopters targeted militant hideouts near the Afghan border, killing 45 people identified as insurgents or members of their families, including women and children, security officials said today.

Suspected US missiles hit a house today in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, killing at least 10 suspected militants including a possible al Qaida operative, intelligence officials said.

Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas blew themselves up today in a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in north-western Pakistan, killing 41 people and wounding 62, officials said.

A top Pakistani Taliban commander is believed to have died in a Pakistan army airstrike, officials said today.

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.

Pakistani troops entered the last of three Taliban strongholds targeted in a major offensive in the north-west today.

The army claimed Pakistan’s Taliban were in disarray after soldiers captured the hometown of the militants’ chief, a strategic prize as the military pushes deeper into an insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border.

Twenty-nine people were killed in an explosion in a district next to Pakistan’s troubled Swat Valley today.

At least 19 people died as Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages seized by militants at the army's own headquarters today.

Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan’s army headquarters today, sparking a ferocious gun battle outside the capital that killed four of the assailants and at least six soldiers, authorities said.

Pakistan's army said helicopter gunships destroyed a suicide bomber training camp and killed six Taliban militants near the northern town of Charbagh in the troubled Swat Valley.

President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan has praised the country’s “very significant” progress in taking back key territory from the Taliban and promised more weapons for the fight against extremists close to the Afghan border.

ONE of Osama bin Laden’s sons was probably killed by a US missile strike in Pakistan earlier this year, US National Public Radio reported, citing US intelligence sources.

A United Nations team visited Pakistan’s battle-scarred Swat Valley today as hundreds of refugees made their way back to the troubled area.

Pakistani fighter jets today bombed suspected Taliban positions in a tribal region that could end up the focus of a future military offensive, killing as many as six people, intelligence officials said.

PAKISTANI troops battling the Taliban have captured several points in the Swat Valley’s main town, the army said yesterday, including a spot nicknamed “bloody intersection” because militants routinely dumped the mutilated bodies of their victims there.

PAKISTANI commandos dropped from helicopters behind Taliban lines in the Swat Valley in a widening offensive that the military said has pushed the number fleeing fighting in the north-west to 1.3 million.

More than 60 Taliban were killed in clashes with the Pakistan army around the hotly contested Swat valley today, security services said.

Up to 500,000 people could be forced to flee the Swat valley fighting between Taliban forces and the Pakistan army, the country's government warned today.

The local government will distribute 30,000 rifles to villagers to help security forces fight the growing strength of Taliban and al-Qaida militants in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province, a top official said today.

Current US economic troubles are proof that Muslims were on the verge of victory, a prominent American member of al-Qaida said in an English-language video released today.

Security forces have killed 15 militants and detained 60 others, the Pakistan army said today, in the first major action against insurgents under the country's new government.

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.

A Taliban commander blamed for the deadliest attack on US troops since they entered Afghanistan in 2001 has been killed in a shoot-out with security forces in Pakistan, American and Pakistani officials said today.

A coalition of Taliban militants in Pakistan declared an "indefinite" ceasefire today in fighting against Pakistani security forces.

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a suspected al-Qaida attack as she left an election rally today, throwing the country into turmoil.

Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was killed by a suicide bomber as she left a public rally today.

Suicide bombers hit a bus carrying intelligence agency employees and a checkpoint near the headquarters of the Pakistan army today, killing at least 35 people, an official said.

A suspected suicide attacker blew himself up at a police checkpoint in Pakistan this morning, killing at least two people and injuring several others, police said.

Pakistan army helicopter gunships strafed and bombed suspected militant hide-outs in a restive tribal region in the country’s North West today, killing 15 fighters, an official said.

Suspected Islamic militants decapitated one Afghan man and shot dead another after accusing them of spying for the US in a tribal region in north-western Pakistan, an intelligence official said today.

Militants bombed a Pakistan army convoy then raked it with gunfire, killing 17 soldiers and continuing a wave of violence that has seen 41 deaths in the past few days.

THE top-ranking cleric of a radical mosque besieged by government forces in Pakistan’s capital rejected calls for an unconditional surrender yesterday, saying he and his die-hard followers were ready for martyrdom.

The chief cleric of a radical mosque in Islamabad was arrested and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered today as troops backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters tightened their siege of the complex, officials said.

Nato and US-led forces killed 60 insurgents near the border with Pakistan, in what the military described today as the largest group of insurgents crossing the region in six months.