A suspected US missile strike killed at least five people today in a tribal region where Pakistan’s top Taliban commander is based, intelligence officials said.

SUICIDE bombers attacked a mosque and a religious school within minutes yesterday in two Pakistani cities, leaving one of the country’s most prominent anti-Taliban clerics dead in what authorities called a targeted killing.

Two Nepalese students became the first of more than 1,400 foreigners to leave Pakistan amid a government drive to curb extremism at the nation’s Islamic schools.