Pakistani security forces have launched a major operation to hunt down gunmen who hijacked two buses and killed at least 19 passengers before fleeing.

Authorities in Pakistan have hanged two convicted militants in the first executions following the reinstatement of the death penalty in the wake of this week’s Peshawar school massacre.

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Gunmen disguised as police guards attacked a terminal at Pakistan's busiest airport with machine guns and a rocket launcher, killing at least 13 people as explosions echoed into the night.

Gunmen disguised as police guards stormed an airport terminal used for VIPs and cargo in Pakistan’s largest city tonight, killing at least nine people as explosions echoed into the night.

A major earthquake has rocked Pakistan’s south west, killing at least 15 and sending panicked people running into the street just days after another quake in the same region killed hundreds.

Rescuers are struggling to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a massive earthquake in south-western Pakistan, as the death toll rose overnight to 210, officials said.

More than 20 people have died when a suicide bomber attacked a funeral for a policeman in south-western Pakistan.

The death toll from heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses in Pakistan has risen to 80 over the past four days, a senior disaster management official said.

The siege of a hospital in south-western Pakistan has ended after security forces stormed the building.

A senior Pakistani police officer says gunmen have taken over parts of a hospital in a south-western Pakistan.

A bomb planted on a bus for a women’s university has killed 11 female students in the south west of Pakistan, officials say.

A suspected US drone strike has killed the number two commander of the Pakistani Taliban, according to intelligence sources.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is thought to be holed up at his private compound on the outskirts of Islamabad after a court revoked his bail in a case in which he is accused of treason.

At least five people were killed when militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in north-western Pakistan today, police and hospital officials said.

Sixty people have been killed after a bomb ripped through a busy vegetable market in the Pakistani city of Quetta, a police chief has said.

At least 21 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in north-western Pakistan as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers.

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot dead a police officer protecting polio workers during a UN-backed vaccination campaign in Pakistan.

Funerals for some of the scores of victims of a series of bombings in Pakistan will take place today as the death toll rose to 120.

Two bombs have exploded minutes apart at a billiards hall in south-west Pakistan, killing 38 people.

A bomb that appeared to be targeting paramilitary soldiers has exploded in the Pakistani city of Quetta, killing 11 people, police say.

Pakistani militants killed at least 41 people in two separate incidents, officials yesterday said, challenging assertions that military offensives have broken the back of hardline Islamist groups.

A car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims killed 19 people in south-west Pakistan today.

A suicide bomber driving a vehicle packed with explosives rammed into a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims in south west Pakistan, killing 17 people.

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.

A 14-year-old who championed Pakistani girls’ rights to an education has been shot in a suspected Taliban attack.

One person was killed and 10 others injured when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded near a police checkpoint in south-west Pakistan, an official said today.

At least one civilian has been killed and eight others injured by a roadside bomb targeting a security convoy in south-western Pakistan, police said today.

A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a rival militant commander's compound in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people, as heavily armed attackers killed eight members of the coast guard in the south-west, officials said.

Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at a roadside restaurant in south-western Pakistan today, killing 18 people, officials said.

Five students were killed and more than 50 other people injured when a bomb ripped through a bus heading to a university in south-western Pakistan today, police said.

A motorcycle bomb has ripped through a passenger bus in south-west Pakistan, killing three people and injuring 40 others.

A bomb attached to a bicycle exploded outside a seminary in south-western Pakistan today, killing at least nine people, police said.

Gunmen have killed at least seven passengers in an attack on a bus in southern Pakistan.

A roadside bomb targeting paramilitary troops has killed two civilians in south-western Pakistan, police said.

The beheaded body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard, with a note attached saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said.

Gunmen on a motorcycle opened fire on a shoe store in south-west Pakistan today, killing four Shiite Muslims, police said.

At least nine people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside the home of a local politician in south-west Pakistan, police said today.

FURY spread in Pakistan yesterday over a Nato cross-border air attack that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and could undermine the US effort to wind up the war in Afghanistan.

Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims travelling through south-western Pakistan today, killing 13 people and injuring seven others in the latest apparent sectarian attack to hit the country, police said.

Gunmen opened fire on minority Shiite Muslim pilgrims travelling through south-west Pakistan today, killing 26 people in an apparent sectarian attack, officials and survivors said.

A suicide car bomber attacked Shiite Muslims in south-west Pakistan today at the start of an Islamic holiday, killing at least 10 people, officials said.

A car bomb exploded in south-western Pakistan today, killing at least five people.