A massive anti-insurgent operation in southern Afghanistan has “seriously disrupted” the Taliban network operating in the region, the US military said today.

Police have arrested 11 people with suspected links to a bus bombing that killed 13 people and wounded 20 in south-western Pakistan.

FRIGHTENED pilgrims streamed out of a remote village in southwestern Pakistan yesterday following a bomb attack on a Shi’ite shrine.

Frightened pilgrims crammed into buses leaving a remote village in southwestern Pakistan today as relatives sifted for signs of loved ones killed in a brutal bombing.