The Pakistani Taliban’s top spokesman has been captured in an operation near the Afghan border.

Pakistan’s Taliban chief has been killed in a CIA missile strike and his body buried, three intelligence officials said today.

Pakistan banned the Taliban today after the militants claimed responsibility for one of the country’s worst suicide bombings.

Police have arrested two more suspects for the suicide attack that killed Pakistan’s opposition leader Benazir Bhutto as thousands of her followers gathered at her tomb to end their mourning and launch her party’s campaign for this month’s parliamentary elections.

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