A suicide bomber blew himself up in a busy market area in the main city in Pakistan’s Swat Valley today, killing two civilians in the north-western region wrested from the Taliban last year, police said.

Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif is likely to contest elections from Lahore after the Supreme Court lifted a ban barring him from electoral politics.

Indian police shot dead two suspected militants from Pakistan in a pre-dawn car chase today near New Delhi, a government official said.

Soldiers and police fired at Muslim protesters demanding an end to Indian rule in Kashmir overnight killing three people.

Security forces fired tear gas and used batons to try to break up protests in Indian Kashmir today.

Six people were killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded inside an Islamic school in south-western Pakistan today, officials said.

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb in a car park at Islamabad’s international airport today, wounding at least two police officers and killing himself, officials said.

Police today arrested about 70 people, including clerics and religious school administrators, in the eastern city of Lahore in a bid to prevent an illegal rally against Prophet Muhammad cartoons from going ahead, police said.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court today granted bail to the jailed husband of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, paving the way for his release, a defence lawyer said.

Kashmir’s oldest school burned down today in a suspected arson attack which sparked emotional street protests.

Seven suspects, including the father of Pakistan’s nuclear programme, remain under investigation for allegedly selling nuclear secrets to Iran and Libya, and a decision on whether to put them on trial will only be made when the probe is complete, an official said.