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.

A grisly video circulating in Pakistan allegedly shows a child beheading Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official killed in a December air strike in Afghanistan.

A bomber hurled a grenade into a crowd at a Muslim shrine in the town of Kulgam in Indian Kashmir today, killing five people and wounding at least 29 more, five of them critically, police said.

Police have rounded up 11 suspected Islamic militants in connection with a machine-gun attack on a group of young police cadets in Quetta, officials said today.