SECURITY forces have rescued several children forcibly recruited by the Taliban, allegedly to be used as fighters or suicide bombers, and there could be hundreds more like them, an army official has said.

ASSAILANTS set off a powerful time bomb next to an army truck parked in a teeming outdoor market in southwestern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 11 people and injuring more than two dozen others.

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.

Two passenger buses collided in Pakistan’s eastern Punjab province today, killing at least 25 people and injuring several others, some of them seriously, police said.