Suspected US drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house in north west Pakistan today, killing 12 people in a rare attack in an area where some of Nato’s fiercest enemies have reportedly travelled, Pakistani officials said.

Suspected US drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house in north-west Pakistan today, killing at least seven people in a rare attack in an area where some of Nato’s fiercest enemies have reportedly travelled, Pakistani officials said.

All 22 people on board a small plane that crashed in Pakistan’s south today were killed, officials said.

AFGHAN intelligence officials have thwarted a plot to assassinate US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad and arrested three Pakistanis armed with rocket propelled grenades and assault rifles, a spokesman for President Hamid Karzai said yesterday.

Afghan intelligence agents have scuttled a plot to assassinate outspoken US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, swooping down on a station wagon carrying three Pakistanis armed with Kalashnikov rifles and rocket-propelled grenades, officials said today.