A car bomb has exploded outside the women’s waiting area of a government office in Pakistan’s troubled north-west tribal region, killing at least 12 people and wounding 45 others, government officials said.

Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims in south-western Pakistan today, killing 11 people in what appeared to be a sectarian attack.

Mumbai police have released a taped conversation between Bollywood superstar Sanjay Dutt and underworld chief Chhota Shakeel in which the mafia boss talks of killing heart-throb Hrithik Roshan.