Police said a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in northwestern Pakistan killed 11 people, including three police.

A wave of violence engulfed Pakistan today as gunmen stormed a government building in Lahore and attacked two police academies near the city - one of them an elite commando training centre.

US drones prowled the sky over Pakistan’s South Waziristan yesterday, a day after one of the aircraft attacked a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, killing about 70 militants.

A suicide attack has killed seven people and wounded at least 25 others in north-west Pakistan, according to a police official.

Police say a blast at the funeral of a Shiite Muslim cleric has killed at least six people in northwestern Pakistan.

PAKISTANI officials said a second suspect had been arrested in connection with a plot to kill former premier Benazir Bhutto, who was assassinated last month.

Pakistani authorities were today continuing to question a 15-year-old boy who has confessed to be being part of the team that killed opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, marking what could be the first major breakthrough in the investigation.

Security officials in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province said today they arrested a teenager allegedly involved in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto last month.

At least 13 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up on a pickup truck carrying passengers in north-western Pakistan today, officials said.

Suicide bombers struck today in two areas of north-western Pakistan, killing up to 38 people, while Taliban militants broke a 10-month-old peace pact with the government along the frontier with Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber killed a police officer protecting a Shia Muslim procession in north-western Pakistan today, while rocket fire injured 11 worshippers at a Shia mosque, stoking fears of sectarian bloodshed as the holy festival of Ashoura builds towards its climax.

A global media rights group expressed concern that a missing Pakistani journalist for the British Broadcasting Corporation may have been abducted.

A BBC journalist went missing today after visiting the Pakistani capital Islamabad, the BBC said, and his brother feared intelligence agents may have kidnapped him.

Suspected Islamic militants triggered two bombs in northwestern Pakistan today, with one exploding near a police van that left seven people dead and four wounded, officials said.

A bomb planted in a police van exploded in northwestern Pakistan today, killing six people and wounding five others, an official said.

At least 24 people died when a 4x4 packed with passengers drove off a mountain road and a crowded pick-up truck rammed into another vehicle in north-western Pakistan today, police said.