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.

At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike near the Afghan border today, state-run Pakistan Television said.

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up yesterday at a large meeting called by tribal elders pushing for peace in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100, said witnesses and officials.

Pakistan’s president today vowed that crucial parliamentary elections would go ahead tomorrow as planned despite a massive suicide car bombing at a campaign rally that killed up to 46 people – many of them supporters of slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto.

The Pakistani government said today it would push ahead with its fight against al-Qaida and Taliban militants and work to ensure a peaceful election campaign after a suicide attack at a mosque near the Afghan border killed at least 50 people.

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded in a military district of a city in Pakistan today.

Pakistan’s military ruler faced new challenges today in the wake of the country’s suspension from the Commonwealth.

Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf’s government called a meeting today to discuss a timetable for parliamentary elections.

POLICE fired tear gas and clubbed thousands of lawyers protesting President General Pervez Musharraf’s decision to impose emergency rule, as Western allies threatened to review aid to the country.

Unofficial results showed Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf sweeping today’s presidential election, but the Supreme Court could still disqualify the military leader.

Heavy rains triggered landslides that struck two villages in Pakistan's mountainous northwest today, leaving 23 people dead and 16 others injured, police said.

Thousands of angry tribesmen and Islamists protested today across Pakistan against an airstrike that killed 80 people at a religious school near the Afghan border this week, as state TV aired video footage purportedly showing militants in training there before the attack.

US president George Bush said he would use his visit this week to India and Pakistan to urge both sides to find a lasting solution to their dispute over Kashmir.

Police have arrested 11 people with suspected links to a bus bombing that killed 13 people and wounded 20 in south-western Pakistan.

A bomb explosion ripped through a passenger bus in Pakistan today, killing 12 people and wounding at least 13 others, the interior minister said.

Anti-US Islamic groups began nationwide protests today against a deadly CIA airstrike that killed innocent civilians instead of the apparent target – top al-Qaida lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahri.

A severe aftershock jolted northwestern Pakistan today, a day after India sharply curtailed plans to open its Kashmir border to help survivors of the region’s massive earthquake.

India and Pakistan agreed today to open the heavily militarised frontier in the disputed Kashmir region to help victims of the devastating South Asia earthquake, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said.

Railway workers were clearing debris and repairing damaged train tracks in southern Pakistan today, a day after the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade left at least 133 people dead and hundreds injured.

At least 41 people were killed when a flash flood washed a tractor-trailer carrying pilgrims into a fast-flowing river in Pakistan, police said today.

Pakistan made a major peace overture to nuclear rival India today with a telephone call from Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan Jamali to his Indian counterpart Atal Bihari Vajpayee, state media reported.

Pakistan police have arrested nine suspected al-Qaida operatives, including two Americans and one Canadian.

THREE Pakistani militants who led police to the body of Daniel Pearl claim the Wall Street Journal journalist was murdered by an Arab two days after he tried to escape from kidnappers, investigators said yesterday.

India and Pakistan are toning down their war rhetoric and sounding more conciliatory, but shelling resumed today in divided Kashmir, killing a 17-year-old youth on the Pakistan side.

Islamic gunmen stormed a police base in Kashmir, killing two officers, and cross-border shelling killed at least 28 other people today amid international efforts to avert a full-fledged war between nuclear powers India and Pakistan.

Police in Pakistan have rounded up dozens of opposition party leaders to block a rally against the country's military ruler.