Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.

A SUICIDE bomber attacked a politician’s house in eastern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 15 people and wounding more than 50, officials and a witness said.

A number of casualties are feared after a bomb exploded at the home of an opposition MP in eastern Pakistan, police said today.