A suicide bomber riding a motorcycle attacked a police checkpoint in north-western Pakistan today, killing 13 people, police said.

DESPERATE survivors crushed into relief centres yesterday after Pakistan’s worst floods in living memory as officials feared a food crisis could compound the humanitarian disaster.

Rescue workers struggled today to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by massive flooding in Pakistan’s north-west that has killed over 900 people and destroyed thousands of homes, officials said.

Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains in Pakistan this week, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 28 people in the north west, officials said today.

Helicopter gunships attacked Taliban hideouts in north-west Pakistan today killing 10 suspected fighters after gunmen murdered two soldiers at a checkpoint in the area.

A suspected Taliban car bomb exploded outside a crowded market in Pakistan today killing at least 20 people in the latest attack aimed at avenging an army offensive along the Afghan border.

THE first groups of the two million Pakistanis who fled a military offensive against the Taliban in Swat Valley began trickling back home yesterday, but many families refused to leave refugee camps, demanding promised government assistance and citing security concerns.

Hundreds of Pakistani refugees who spent weeks in relief camps began heading home to the battle-scarred Swat Valley today under a government repatriation programme.

PAKISTANI troops battling the Taliban have captured several points in the Swat Valley’s main town, the army said yesterday, including a spot nicknamed “bloody intersection” because militants routinely dumped the mutilated bodies of their victims there.

THE party of murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is Pakistan’s most popular, according to a survey released ahead of next week’s crucial elections.

The party of murdered opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is Pakistan’s most popular, according to a survey released ahead of next week’s crucial elections.

Hundreds of mourners wept today as villagers buried victims of a horrific suicide bombing at a Pakistan election rally, an attack that killed 27 people and stoked fears about security ahead of next week’s crucial parliamentary election.

A suicide bomber struck today at an election rally in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 14 people and wounding more than 20, officials said.

Police examined clothing, shoes and the severed legs of a man today trying to determine the identity of a suicide bomber who killed at least 50 people during a holiday prayer service at a crowded mosque in north-western Pakistan.

Authorities have said at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb packed with ball bearings and nails amid hundreds of holiday worshippers at the home of Pakistan’s former interior minister today.

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb early today at a mosque outside the home of Pakistan’s former interior minister as he received visitors on an Islamic holiday, killing a reported 55 people and wounding dozens more, authorities said.

At least 24 people were killed and 25 wounded when a suicide attacker detonated a bomb that ripped through a crowded Pakistan hotel restaurant in the north-western city of Peshawar today.

Security guards prevented a suicide bomber from killing Pakistan's interior minister in an attack at a political gathering in a north-western town today that left at least 22 dead and 35 wounded, officials said.

A suicide attacker detonated a bomb at a public meeting in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least seven people and wounding Pakistan’s interior minister, police said.

Lab tests on chickens have confirmed Pakistan’s first two cases of the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu.

More than 7,200 villages have been inundated and some 176,000 people left homeless by monsoon floods in India’s western Gujarat state, where a dead lion washed up with dozens of other casualties, officials and news reports said today.