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.

Two people were killed when a truck on its way back from delivering Nato supplies in Afghanistan was ambushed by gunmen in north-west Pakistan, a government official said today.

A SUICIDE bomber yesterday demolished a mosque packed with hundreds of worshippers attending prayers in Jamrud, near the Afghan border, killing at least 48 people and injuring scores more, in the bloodiest attack in Pakistan this year.

A suicide bomber demolished a packed mosque in Pakistan today, killing at least 50 and injuring scores more.