Smog has enveloped much of Pakistan and India, causing road accidents and respiratory problems.

More than 400 people have died from heatstroke in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi in the last three days, officials have said.

Nato-led troops and Afghan forces detained a prominent Taliban commander during a raid on a compound in southern Afghanistan, the alliance said today.

TALIBAN chief Mullah Mohammad Omar has added to the mystery over Osama bin Laden, saying he hasn’t seen his ally and fellow fugitive since US-backed forces ousted the Taliban from Afghanistan in 2001.

A PAKISTANI anti-terrorism court convicted four men yesterday of organising last year's suicide bomb attack on the US consulate in the port city of Karachi, and handed death sentences to two of them.