Twenty students and one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hospital official said.

A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in north-western Pakistan today, killing 37 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said.

At least five people were killed when militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in north-western Pakistan today, police and hospital officials said.