A suspected suicide bombing today killed at least 11 people and wounded 43 others at a hotel near Islamabad’s Red Mosque, after religious students occupied the mosque and demanded the return of its pro-Taliban cleric.

Hundreds of religious students protested today at Islamabad’s Red Mosque and blocked Pakistan’s government-appointed cleric from leading prayers at its planned reopening, more than two weeks after a bloody army siege left more than 100 dead.

Pakistan said it successfully test-fired a cruise missile capable of delivering nuclear warheads deep into India.

About 2,000 people gathered today for the funeral of the defiant cleric killed in the army assault on Islamabad’s Red Mosque, while dozens of suspected militants were placed in temporary graves in Pakistan’s capital.

Pakistani troops attempted to clear a women’s religious school after seizing Islamabad’s Red Mosque in fierce fighting that left at least 40 militants and three soldiers dead.

The chief cleric of a radical mosque in Islamabad was arrested and more than 1,000 of his followers surrendered today as troops backed by armoured vehicles and helicopters tightened their siege of the complex, officials said.

The chief cleric of the radical mosque besieged by security forces in the Pakistani capital Islamabad today was caught trying to slip away wearing a woman’s burqa, a senior official said.

Leaders of a besieged radical mosque in Pakistan remained defiant today as a deadline calling for their immediate surrender passed, a day after clashes there killed at least nine people.

Security forces clashed with Islamic students outside a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital Islamabad today, triggering gunfire that killed nine people, including four of the militant students, a senior official said.

Security forces clashed with militants outside a radical mosque in the Pakistani capital today, triggering gunfire that killed two police officers and one soldier.

Thousands of lawyers and flag-waving political activists rallied for the reinstatement of Pakistan’s chief justice as he appeared before a judicial panel investigating whether he abused his office.

Police in Jamaica have no suspects in the murder of Pakistan cricket coach Bob Woolmer at the World Cup, the island’s deputy commissioner said today, and the Pakistan cricket team will be allowed to leave the country.

A suicide car bomber attacked a military convoy in north-western Pakistan, killing himself and at least four soldiers.

Pakistan’s army spokesman today said the military used intelligence provided by US-led coalition forces in an air raid that left 80 people dead, while thousands of pro-Taliban tribesmen threatened to send suicide bombers to attack Pakistan forces and execute people found spying for the Americans.

Pakistan’s government will eventually have to recognise Israel, but it would be political suicide to do so today, President Gen. Pervez Musharraf has said.

The US today urged Pakistan not to expand its nuclear weapons programme today after a think tank claimed Islamabad was building a nuclear reactor able to fuel up to 50 atomic bombs a year.

Thousands of Islamists today defied a ban on rallies in Pakistan’s capital, joining protesters across the country in condemning the Prophet Mohammed cartoons printed by some Western newspapers.

More than 1,000 protesters stormed into a diplomatic enclave in Islamabad today, and thousands set fire to a provincial assembly building in another city during Pakistan’s most violent wave of protests against the cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed.

Pakistan’s Islamic schools today said they would resist any effort by police to round up their foreign students – even as the government backed away from its threat to do so unless the students leave Pakistan by tomorrow.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan today warned of a “gigantic task” ahead for quake recovery efforts in northern Pakistan, while aid groups warned that emergency help was urgently needed even as donor nations gather to discuss long-term reconstruction.

Nato forces were setting up winter shelters high in the mountains of Pakistan’s earthquake zone today, as doctors rushed to immunise children against measles and other diseases before snows cut off remote areas.

Defence Secretary John Reid today praised the Pakistani military for its efforts in fighting terrorism and drug trafficking.

A mysterious blast after nightfall tonight levelled a building in Gaza City, killing four people and wounding at least 30, residents and hospital officials said.

Representatives of 250 Islamic seminaries in Pakistan have rejected a demand they register their schools with the government and disclose their sources of income, a cleric said today.

Pakistani police detained dozens of suspected militants overnight as part of a crackdown on radical groups in the wake of the London suicide bombings, officials said today.

Railway workers were clearing debris and repairing damaged train tracks in southern Pakistan today, a day after the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade left at least 133 people dead and hundreds injured.

A senior leader from a coalition of radical Islamic political parties today said the attacks in London might have been orchestrated by the West as a strategy to turn public opinion against Muslims, a claim sure to produce outrage around the globe.

Officials and churchgoers from around the world expressed hope today that the new Pope will continue the work of his predecessor by building interfaith bridges. Even China said icy ties with the Vatican could improve – but only if the church breaks off relations with Taiwan.

More than 400 people are missing in a remote area of south-western Pakistan after heavy rains caused a large dam to burst, sweeping villagers into the Arabian Sea, a provincial official said today.

Pakistan today denied a newspaper report the CIA has set up covert bases in the country’s remote tribal regions to hunt for Osama bin Laden.

A bomb strapped to a bicycle exploded today next to an army truck parked at a crowded outdoor market in south-western Pakistan, killing at least 10 people and wounding 27 others, police said.

Pakistan has barred major gatherings and sent police to guard mosques today after two devastating attacks killed 70 people within a week in suspected sectarian attacks – raising concern this key US anti-terror ally might witness a spiral of bloodshed.

Thousands of minority Shiite Muslims rampaged through an eastern Pakistan city for a second day today, setting fire to a police station and the mayor’s office, after a mass funeral for victims of a suicide bombing at a mosque that killed 31 people.

Pakistan’s human rights commission today hailed as a landmark a Supreme Court ruling that a Muslim woman who married for love had been entitled to choose her husband without her parents’ consent.

Pakistan's Islamic groups say they will continue nationwide rallies in support of the Taliban militia.

Kashmir reacted with gloom, anger and despair today at the failure of the India-Pakistan summit, which had raised hopes of modest progress toward resolution of the five decade dispute over the Himalayan territory.