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.

Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai said he wants Pakistan to hand over a captured Taliban commander to his country.

Intelligence experts were trying to establish the identity of an American terror suspect arrested in Pakistan today as doubts emerged that he was al Qaida’s US-born spokesman.

A suicide car bomber struck a building where police interrogate high-value suspects in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore today, killing at least 11 people and wounding scores more including women and children heading to school.

MORE Taliban leaders have been captured in Pakistan following the arrest of its deputy leader.

More Taliban leaders have been captured in Pakistan following the arrest of the group’s deputy leader.

A bomb at a mosque in Pakistan’s north-western tribal belt killed 29 people today.

Two Taliban “shadow governors” from northern Afghanistan have been arrested by Pakistani authorities.

THE Taliban’s top military commander has been arrested in a joint CIA-Pakistani operation in Pakistan in a major victory against the insurgents as US troops push into their heartland in southern Afghanistan, officials said yesterday.

Three more Afghan civilians have been killed in the assault on a southern Taliban stronghold, Nato forces said today.

The Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan, it was reported today.