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.

A small bomb damaged a truck carrying oil to Nato troops in Afghanistan that was parked near the border, a Pakistan government official said.

A worker in Pakistan’s state-run Islamic advisory body has been arrested accused of playing an important role in the failed New York Times Square car bombing.

Pakistani officials today urged anyone left in three southern towns to evacuate immediately as water broke through an embankment, endangering areas previously untouched by the country’s flooding disaster.

The Pakistani government today said it had blocked access to YouTube because of growing “sacrilegious” content on the video-sharing website.

Gordon Brown will confirm today that Britain is to send an extra 500 troops to Afghanistan after the conditions he placed on the reinforcement were met.

Gordon Brown sent a tough challenge to Pakistan today to step up action against the al Qaida terror network and “take out” its leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri.

At least three people were killed when a pick-up truck laden with explosives attacked a police station in north west Pakistan today.

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.

India today demanded the arrest of 22 Pakistanis it accused of masterminding last year’s Mumbai terrorist attacks.

The Taliban today dismissed a peace deal with the Pakistani government as “worthless”.

At least 20 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a military checkpoint in Pakistan’s troubled northwest today, officials said.

Pakistan has temporarily suspended oil tankers and trucks carrying sealed containers from using the Khyber Pass, a key passage to Afghanistan, an official said today, a move which will probably have an impact on supplies heading to Nato troops.

Tens of thousands of Benazir Bhutto supporters gathered in a southern Pakistan town today as her widowed husband prepared to address the first major campaign rally by her opposition party since her assassination in a suicide attack six weeks ago.

One of al-Qaida’s top commanders in Afghanistan, Abu Laith al-Libi, was killed in Pakistan according to a website used by militant groups.

More than 20 people died today in a wave of violence that swept across Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Switzerland said today it had closed an investigation into Benazir Bhutto for alleged money laundering, but a parallel probe into her husband’s activities will continue.

The sacked head of Pakistan’s Supreme Court today called on the country to rise up against President Pervez Musharraf.

President Gen. Pervez Musharraf came under fire today for the ejection of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif, with newspapers dismissing the Pakistan government’s claim that he returned willingly to exile.

The chief cleric of the Red Mosque was killed today as troops were flushing out entrenched hold-outs inside a women’s religious school in room by room fighting, a Pakistan government spokesman said.

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.

Former Pakistan cricketers have appealed to their government to send lawyers to the West Indies to assist the team after Jamaican police confirmed national coach Bob Woolmer had been strangled.

Admiral William Fallon, who is poised to become the top American commander in the Middle East, says the United States miscalculated the ability of Iraqi forces to take control and underestimated the enemy’s persistence.

A global media rights group expressed concern that a missing Pakistani journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation may have been abducted.

Hollywood couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are disappointed after filming for their new movie was relocated to India, amid security and safety fears in Pakistan.

PAKISTAN’S top envoy has escaped a mine blast which killed seven people as Tamil Tiger rebels accused Sri Lanka of bombing an orphanage and killing 61 amid ferocious battles elsewhere.

British actor Ben Kingsley today promised to help raise funds to assist victims of a powerful earthquake in Pakistan last year that killed about 87,000 people and left millions homeless.

Cross-border firing from Afghanistan hit the tent of a nomad family on the Pakistan side of the frontier, killing two women and injuring at least four children, Pakistani officials said today.

Under criticism that Pakistan is not doing enough to counter terrorism, President Pervez Musharraf today offered to construct a security fence to deter incursion of militants and drug merchants from Afghanistan.

Britain has expressed satisfaction today that President Gen Pervez Musharraf was cracking down on Islamic extremists and said there was “no question” of blaming Pakistan for the July 7 bombings that killed 56 people in London.

FAR from the dusty village where she was brutally assaulted three years ago on the orders of a tribal council, Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai appeared before the Supreme Court in Islamabad yesterday.

Far from the dusty village where she was brutally assaulted three years ago on the orders of a tribal council, Pakistani rape victim Mukhtar Mai appeared before the Supreme Court in the capital today to demand the reinstatement of death sentences for five of her alleged attackers.

A Pakistan government spokesman says at least 12 people were killed in the bombing of a Muslim shrine near the capital, Islamabad.

A ROGUE scientist who is at the heart of an international nuclear black market investigation gave centrifuges to Iran, a Pakistani minister said yesterday.

A rogue scientist who is at the heart of an international nuclear black market investigation gave centrifuges to Iran, a Pakistani minister said today.

Pakistani agents have called in the FBI to help determine if an al-Qaida leader is among seven suspected terror suspects arrested in a weekend raid.

Pakistani agents staged a pre-dawn raid at an apartment complex today and arrested seven suspected foreign members of the al-Qaida terror group who had been living there for two months.

The mastermind of the Karachi hotel car bomb attack that killed 11 French engineers has been captured, the Pakistan government said tonight.

Six men were tonight sentenced to death after gang raping a woman to punish her family.

The US has no direct evidence that Osama bin Laden’s terror network is operating in Kashmir,

India's prime minister says Pakistan's leader has kept none of his promises over the past six months.

The al-Qaida leadership has been driven out of Afghanistan and is now plotting terror strikes from within Pakistan, a US military commander said today.

Hopes for peace were signalled alongside threats of war by both India and Pakistan, as the nuclear-armed neighbours exchanged deadly shelling in the disputed region of Kashmir, killing at least six people.

A rocket was fired at a building in Pakistan’s remote tribal belt, where US special forces hunting remaining Taliban and al Qaida fighters are believed to be staying, a local official said today.