Senior Pakistani opposition leader Javed Hashmi was released from prison today and received a rapturous welcome from hundreds of chanting, flag-waving supporters, a day after the Supreme Court granted him bail.

Pakistani police launched an investigation to learn the identity of a suicide bomber who killed 15 people in an attack on a Shiite mosque in the north-west city of Peshawar, an official said today.

THE pre-dawn airstrike aimed at Ayman al-Zawahri in a remote Pakistani village was intended as a devastating blow to al-Qaida, but it has strained ties with a key US ally in the war on terror and could provoke more anti-American fanaticism in this Islamic country, analysts said yesterday.

The pre-dawn airstrike aimed at Ayman al-Zawahri in a remote Pakistani village was intended as a devastating blow to al-Qaida but it has strained ties with a key US ally in the war on terror and could provoke more anti-Americanism in the Islamic country, analysts said today.

More tents were being flown today to people left homeless by the South Asian earthquake as survivors joined relief workers in hailing an agreement between India and Pakistan to open their disputed frontier to ease the delivery of assistance.

PAKISTANI counter-terrorism experts are questioning 21 suspects captured at an al-Qaida hide-out for clues about remnants of the terror network and the Taliban, an intelligence official said yesterday.

Pakistan’s president said today that talks with his Indian counterpart were more successful than he expected, but warned that settling the dispute over Kashmir would take a long time.

Security forces are investigating an assassination attempt on Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf – at least the second since he enraged hardliners by backing the war on terror in Afghanistan.