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.

Gunmen have killed four Shiite Muslims in northwestern Pakistan.

A BBC journalist went missing today after visiting the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the BBC said, and his brother feared intelligence agents may have kidnapped him.

Suspected Islamic militants triggered two bombs in northwestern Pakistan today, with one exploding near a police van that left seven people dead and four wounded, officials said.

A powerful bomb exploded outside the home of a senior security official in central Pakistan today, killing one person and wounding three others, police and doctors said.