Seven prisoners were killed in clashes which erupted following a search by authorities for mobile phones in a Pakistan jail, prison officials said today.

A trial in Pakistan of a British-born Muslim accused of abducting and killing a US reporter resumed today with the cross-examination of FBI agents by defence lawyers.

The closed-door trial of a British-born Islamic militant for the kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl today resumed under tight security in the Pakistan city of Hyderabad.