TROOPS yesterday recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base after a 16-hour battle with Taliban gunmen who had attacked the base to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.

GUNMEN attacked Pakistan’s naval aviation base yesterday, starting fires, setting off explosions and fighting pitched gunbattles inside one of the country’s most heavily guarded military installations.

A teenage suicide bomber killed up to 31 Pakistani army recruits at a parade ground yesterday, an attack the Taliban said was revenge for US drone strikes and local military offensives.

THE governor of Pakistan’s wealthiest and most populous province was shot dead in the capital yesterday by one of his own guards, who later told interrogators that he was angry about the politician’s stance against the country’s blasphemy law, officials said.

Police arrested two would-be suicide bombers planning to attack a mosque and a government building in Pakistan’s capital today.

Pakistan blocked a vital supply route for Nato Afghanistan forces today in retaliation for a cross-border helicopter strike by the coalition that killed three frontier troops.

The death toll from a Pakistani Taliban suicide attack on a Shiite Muslim procession rose from 43 to 65 overnight as critically wounded people died in hospitals, police said today.

SUICIDE bombings targeting religious minorities killed at least 44 people in Pakistan yesterday, sharply driving up the toll of sectarian assaults in a country already battered by massive flooding.

At least 23 people were killed in suicide bombings targeting religious minorities in Pakistan today.

The Pakistani cricket team ploughed on with their British tour today, dogged by accusations of match-fixing, after the man at the centre of the alleged plot was bailed by police.

TWO innocent teenagers carrying a cricket bag were beaten to death by a mob in Pakistan who mistook them for thieves.

Scores of passengers were feared dead after an airliner carrying 152 people crashed in Pakistan today.

The Times Square bomb suspect was due to appear in court today as a massive investigation continued across the US.

KIDNAPPERS released a five-year-old British boy unharmed almost two weeks after abducting him from his grandparents’ house in central Pakistan, British and Pakistani officials said.

A top Pakistani Taliban commander is believed to have died in a Pakistan army airstrike, officials said today.

An explosion apparently caused by a suicide vest stored in a house in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed eight suspected militants today.

A suicide bombing targeting a Shiite Muslim procession in Pakistan’s largest city of Karachi killed at least 20 people and wounded 60 more today, as Shiites across the country marked the key holy day of Ashoura.

TALIBAN militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic town yesterday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic university in the capital killed six people and wounded at least 20, officials said.

TEAMS of gunmen attacked three law enforcement facilities across the eastern city of Lahore yesterday, paralysing Pakistan’s cultural capital, while car bombs in two cities near the Afghan border killed 39 people in an escalating wave of terror.

Pakistan was hit by a wave of co-ordinated terror attacks today aimed at disrupting a planned offensive against the Taliban on their home territory.

Pakistan's president said his government would not be deterred from eliminating extremists, despite a wave of attacks today which left at least 26 people dead in Lahore.

A wave of violence engulfed Pakistan today as gunmen stormed a government building in Lahore and attacked two police academies near the city - one of them an elite commando training centre.

A SUSPECTED suicide bomber killed 41 people in an attack on the Pakistani military yesterday as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a weekend raid on the army’s headquarters.

At least 19 people died as Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages seized by militants at the army's own headquarters today.

Militants were holding several security officers hostage inside Pakistan's army headquarters today after they and others attacked the complex in an audacious assault on the country's most powerful institution.

Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan’s army headquarters today, sparking a ferocious gun battle outside the capital that killed four of the assailants and at least six soldiers, authorities said.

PAKISTAN braced yesterday for more militant attacks ahead of an anticipated offensive against a Taliban stronghold, as the insurgents said they bombed a UN relief agency because international aid work was not in “the interest of Muslims”.

Taliban militants claimed responsibility today for a suicide bomb attack at the UN food agency in Pakistan’s capital in which five people were killed, saying international relief work in Pakistan was not in “the interest of Muslims”.

A suicide bomber disguised as a security officer blew up the UN food agency’s Pakistan headquarters killing five people today.

The leader of a banned Islamist group which India has accused of carrying out attacks on its financial capital late last year was placed under house arrest again today.

President Barack Obama’s special envoy to Pakistan has praised the country’s “very significant” progress in taking back key territory from the Taliban and promised more weapons for the fight against extremists close to the Afghan border.

Pakistan’s Taliban chief has been killed in a CIA missile strike and his body buried, three intelligence officials said today.

Paramilitary troops patrolled the streets of an eastern Pakistani city today after eight Christians died in riots led by Muslims, police said.

A United Nations team visited Pakistan’s battle-scarred Swat Valley today as hundreds of refugees made their way back to the troubled area.

THE trial of five men accused over the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in India is likely to start next week, Pakistan’s interior minister has said.

The trial of five men accused of the Mumbai attacks that killed 166 people in India is likely to start next week, Pakistan's interior minister said.

Two explosions at a busy Pakistan market and a police checkpoint killed at least 11 people and wounded scores of others today.

The Taliban today admitted it was behind a bomb and gun attack in Lahore that killed 30 people, claiming it was revenge for the offensive against them in the country’s north-west..

SUSPECTED suicide attackers detonated a car bomb yesterday that destroyed a police building and sheared walls off a nearby office of Pakistan’s top intelligence service in Lahore. About 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded.

THE Pakistani government yesterday urged people stranded by a military offensive against Taliban militants in the Swat valley to try to get out.

Pakistani security forces fought Taliban militants on the outskirts of the main city in the north-west’s Swat Valley and entered two other Taliban-held towns there, the army said today, foreshadowing what could become bloody urban battles.

PAKISTANI commandos dropped from helicopters behind Taliban lines in the Swat Valley in a widening offensive that the military said has pushed the number fleeing fighting in the north-west to 1.3 million.

PAKISTANI warplanes bombed suspected militant positions in a stronghold close to the capital yesterday, pressing ahead with a fierce offensive that has driven hundreds of thousands from their homes, many into crowded refugee camps.