Intelligence officials and militant commanders say the Pakistani Taliban are meeting to choose a new leader after their chief was killed in a US drone strike.

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban was one of three people killed in a suspected US drone strike, intelligence officials say.

The US has confirmed that American troops are holding a senior Pakistani Taliban commander.

The Pakistani teenager who was shot by the Taliban for promoting girls’ education has urged her country to reverse a decision to rename a college in her honour to avert militant attacks on students.

A woman suicide bomber detonated her explosives near the convoy of a former leader of Pakistan’s largest Islamist party, a government official said today.

Twenty people were killed in a suicide bombing in a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border today, officials said.

The co-owner of a catering company that organised events for the US Embassy is among six men detained by Pakistan for allegedly helping the failed Times Square bombing suspect, a senior Pakistani intelligence official said.

The Pakistani Taliban released a video – apparently dated early April – of their leader promising an attack on major US cities “in some days or a month”, a monitoring group said today.

A Pakistani Taliban leader thought to have been killed in a US missile strike earlier this year is now believed to have survived, an intelligence official said today.

Five Pakistani soldiers and at least 21 suspected militants were killed in clashes in a region near the Afghan border where the military is pursuing Taliban insurgents fleeing a US-backed offensive, authorities said today.

Two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each other in the Pakistani city of Lahore today, killing at least 39 people.

Two suicide bombers struck outside a police complex in north-west Pakistan today, killing 15 people and underscoring the relentless security threat despite army operations and US missile strikes against al-Qaida and the Taliban.

The leader of the Taliban in Pakistan is dead, the country’s interior minister and a senior intelligence official said today.

THE Pakistani army said yesterday it was investigating reports Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a US drone missile strike in mid-January.

The Pakistani army said today it was investigating reports that Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud died from injuries sustained in a US drone missile strike in mid-January.

Suspected US missiles hit a compound and a bunker in Pakistan’s tribal region today, killing nine militants as part of an unprecedented wave of strikes since a deadly attack against the CIA across the border in Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

A suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s volatile tribal area killed five people, intelligence officials said.

Pakistan may launch a new military offensive near the Afghan border where militant leaders are believed to have fled to escape a government onslaught against the Taliban in South Waziristan, the prime minister said.

The army has finished its operation against the Taliban in the South Waziristan tribal region, Pakistan’s prime minister said today, but may now pursue militants in another area along the Afghan border.

Pakistani troops entered the last of three Taliban strongholds targeted in a major offensive in the north-west today.

The army claimed Pakistan’s Taliban were in disarray after soldiers captured the hometown of the militants’ chief, a strategic prize as the military pushes deeper into an insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border.

The army captured the strategically located hometown of Pakistan’s Taliban chief today after days of fierce fighting, officials said, its first major prize in a US-backed anti-Taliban offensive along the Afghan border.

A pair of gunmen on a motorbike killed a soldier and a high-ranking army officer in the Pakistani capital today, officials said.

Pakistani soldiers gained ground today as their offensive moved into the home city of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud.

TALIBAN militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic town yesterday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic university in the capital killed six people and wounded at least 20, officials said.

At least 19 people died as Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages seized by militants at the army's own headquarters today.

A suicide bomber disguised as a security officer blew up the UN food agency’s Pakistan headquarters killing five people today.

Two Pakistani Taliban commanders acknowledged that top leader Baitullah Mehsud is dead, saying he died 18 days after a US missile strike and disputing reports that the al Qaida linked movement he left behind is falling apart.

THE commander named by members of the Pakistani Taliban as its new leader is as ruthless as his predecessor, taking credit for several attacks, and could order more in the coming weeks to prove the terror network is still in business.

TWO bombs exploded in a market in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar yesterday, killing six people, and gunmen on rooftops ambushed police as they arrived at the scene.

Two explosions at a busy Pakistan market and a police checkpoint killed at least 11 people and wounded scores of others today.

The Taliban today admitted it was behind a bomb and gun attack in Lahore that killed 30 people, claiming it was revenge for the offensive against them in the country’s north-west..

A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shiite mosque south of the Pakistani capital Islamabad today, killing 22 people and wounding dozens more in the latest carnage to hit the US-allied nation, officials said.