Pakistan's supreme court has exonerated a man convicted of blasphemy after he served nine years of a life sentence in prison.

A suicide bomber on a motorbike rammed into a minibus carrying security personnel, detonating a blast today that killed at least six people in the Pakistani garrison city of Rawalpindi, police said.

Three Islamic militants have been jailed for 10 years after being convicted of planning to kill Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf.