A senior al-Qaida leader recently captured in Pakistan has given investigators vital information about the terrorist network, leading to several additional arrests, two security officials said today.

PAKISTAN has detained several people in the attempted assassination of the man selected to be the country's prime minister, a government minister said yesterday.

A militant group has posted an internet statement in the name of al-Qaida claiming responsibility for yesterday’s attempt to assassinate Pakistan’s prime minister-designate.

Pakistan’s prime minister in waiting Shaukat Aziz survived an suicide attack on his motorcade today, police said.