Six people were injured in an explosion inside the offices of the UN World Food Programme in the Pakistani capital today, police and witnesses said.

A UN employee and his bodyguard were killed in a shooting at a refugee camp in north-western Pakistan today, police said.

A UN fact-finding commission began an inquiry yesterday into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

THE United Nations has ordered children of its international staff to leave Pakistan after raising its security level following a suicide attack on the Marriott hotel in the capital, a UN official said yesterday.