Aasia Bibi is now free to leave the country after the resolution of the blasphemy case.

A UN employee and his bodyguard were killed in a shooting at a refugee camp in north-western Pakistan today, police said.

A UN fact-finding commission began an inquiry yesterday into the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Allies of president Pervez Musharraf withdrew their candidate for Pakistan’s prime minister as a “good will gesture” to followers of murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, who said they would announce their choice for the job later today.

A FRESH explosion of sectarian violence in Pakistan in which 40 people were killed is a fight-back by hardcore Islamic militants, many trained of which are by al-Qaida, investigators and analysts have said.