An explosion apparently caused by a suicide vest stored in a house in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed eight suspected militants today.

Seven members of an al-Qaida-linked militant group were detained along with heroin, suicide vests and explosives, police in Pakistan said today.

OPPOSITION leaderBenazir Bhutto yesterday called on President General Pervez Musharraf to resign and ruled out serving under him in a future government after she was placed under house arrest for the second time in five days.

A man sentenced to life in his absence for the murders of 11 French engineers was captured in the Pakistan city of Karachi today when he fell off his motorbike after a gun battle with police.