A PASSENGER jet crashed into the hills surrounding Pakistan’s capital Islamabad amid poor weather yesterday, killing all 152 people on board and blazing a path of devastation strewn with bodies and wreckage.

Pakistan’s new parliament elected the country’s first female speaker from the party of assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto today.

Thousands of minority Shiite Muslims rampaged through an eastern Pakistan city for a second day today, setting fire to a police station and the mayor’s office, after a mass funeral for victims of a suicide bombing at a mosque that killed 31 people.

OVERCROWDING may have caused the death of 600 people who were missing and feared dead yesterday after a river ferry capsized in southern Bangladesh.

Around 600 people were missing feared dead today after a ferry packed with at least 750 passengers capsized in a rain-swollen river in southern Bangladesh, rescue officials said.