Suspected tribal militants used bombs to blow up three state-owned gas pipelines in south-western Pakistan today, leaving thousands of domestic consumers without natural gas, but injuring no one, officials said.

A powerful bomb has blown up a gas pipeline in a remote town of insurgency-wracked south-western Pakistan, gutting dozens of shops but causing no casualties, a government official said today.

A crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine yesterday in a volatile region of south-western Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding eight, a doctor and officials said.

At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed when a crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mie in a volatile region of south western Pakistan today.

Seventeen minority Hindus were killed when their temple was hit by rockets during fighting between renegade tribesmen and security forces in a tribal town in south-western Pakistan, a government official said today.