Suicide bombers struck today in two areas of north-western Pakistan, killing up to 38 people, while Taliban militants broke a 10-month-old peace pact with the government along the frontier with Afghanistan.

Pakistan today vowed to not let foreign forces enter its territory a day after US president George Bush said he would order American military action inside this Islamic nation if Osama bin Laden was found to be hiding there.

The peace process between India and Pakistan will not go forward until Islamabad ends its support for terrorist groups, said Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

The probe into the plot to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger planes was continuing, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry spokeswoman said today, and that the “full picture” would be eventually revealed to the public.

The US today urged Pakistan not to expand its nuclear weapons programme today after a think tank claimed Islamabad was building a nuclear reactor able to fuel up to 50 atomic bombs a year.

The UN secretary-general has appointed former US President George Bush as his special envoy for rehabilitation and reconstruction in quake-hit areas of northwestern Pakistan and Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, the Foreign Ministry said today.

A Greek lawyer claimed seven Pakistani immigrants were abducted and questioned by British security agents in Greece following the July 7 bomb attacks in London.

Pakistan and Britain will hold talks this week on co-operation in nuclear power and improved military and political ties, a foreign ministry spokeswoman said today.