Five Taliban fighters were killed in a battle with security forces today after they fled to a village in north-western Pakistan near an international airport they helped attack the night before, officials said.

A team of nine Taliban militants have attacked a Pakistani air force base believed linked to the country’s nuclear programme, killing a security official in a fierce gunbattle battle that ended with the insurgents dead and parts of the base in flames.

The Taliban have threatened to kill a Pakistani cricket star turned politician if he holds a planned march to their tribal stronghold along the Afghan border to protest over US drone attacks.

A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a rival militant commander's compound in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people, as heavily armed attackers killed eight members of the coast guard in the south-west, officials said.

Gunmen attacked an office of the security force’s intelligence agency in north-west Pakistan today, taking several hostages and reportedly killing at least one officer, police said.

Dozens of militants from Afghanistan have taken scores of villagers hostage in Pakistan’s north west, sparking fighting that killed at least 10 people, Pakistani officials said.

At least half a dozen gunmen have attacked a compound housing policemen in eastern Pakistan, killing nine of them.

The Pakistani Taliban say they are holding around 30 Pakistani boys who were abducted in Afghanistan three days ago.

The Pakistani Taliban said they used a female suicide bomber for the first time in an attack on a police station in north-western Pakistan that killed 10 people.

The Pakistani Taliban is claiming responsibility for an attack on a police station that killed at least 10 officers.

A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck filled with explosives attacked a police building in north-west Pakistan today, killing five police officers and wounding at least 30 other people in the latest round of bloodshed to hit the country since the US raid which killed Osama bin Laden.

Pakistani commandos cornered a group of Taliban militants in an office building on a naval base in Karachi today after the insurgents raided the complex in an attack which destroyed two US-supplied surveillance aircraft, officials said.

A Taliban suicide bomber rammed his motorbike into an armoured vehicle taking American officials to the US consulate in north-west Pakistan today, in a strike the militants said was in revenge for the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

A pair of suicide bombers from Pakistan’s Taliban have killed 80 people in an attack at paramilitary training centre in first major retaliation for the killing of Osama bin Laden.

The Pakistani Taliban said today it carried out the twin blasts at a Frontier Corps training centre that killed at least 69 people, nearly all of them recruits, to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.

A pair of Taliban suicide bombers struck one of Pakistan’s most important Sufi Muslim shrines, killing 42 people and wounding 100 who were celebrating the anniversary of its founder’s death.

A suicide bomber linked to the Pakistani Taliban has killed 31 soldiers in an attack at an army training camp.

A young suicide bomber in a school uniform attacked soldiers during morning exercises at a Pakistani army training camp today, killing 27 troops and wounding 40 others, police and the military said.