Hundreds of Pakistanis protesting over an anti-Islam film broke through a barricade near the US consulate in Karachi, sparking clashes with police in which one demonstrator was killed and more than a dozen injured.

The Pakistani militant leader with a $10m (€7.6m) bounty on his head has mocked America and dared it to arrest him.

A hardline cleric suspected by India of masterminding the Mumbai massacre will remain free after Pakistan’s top court ruled today the government did not have enough evidence to jail him.

A lawyer for the leader of an Islamic group suspected in the deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai last year said a Pakistani court has ordered his release.

SOMETIMES breaking into laughter, the man accused of being the lone surviving gunman in last year’s Mumbai attacks told an Indian court yesterday that he was from Pakistan and wanted legal assistance, officials said.