A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in north-western Pakistan today, killing 37 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said.

A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 60 people today

The death toll from heavy rains that caused flash floods and collapsed houses in Pakistan has risen to 80 over the past four days, a senior disaster management official said.

A suicide bomber has blown himself up in a crowd of hundreds of mourners attending a funeral in Pakistan, killing 27 people.

Bombings at two mosques in north-west Pakistan have killed at least 10 people, police say.

A recreation complex is planned to be built in the town where al Qaida founder Osama bin Laden was killed by US commandos in 2011, Pakistani officials say.

At least 21 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up outside a Shiite mosque in north-western Pakistan as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers.

Gunmen on a motorcycle have shot dead a police officer protecting polio workers during a UN-backed vaccination campaign in Pakistan.

Six female teachers and one man have been killed in an ambush by gunmen in north-west Pakistan.

Dozens of militants armed with rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons have attacked two tribal police posts in north-west Pakistan, killing two policemen.

The UN has halted its Pakistan polio vaccination campaign after two more of its workers were shot dead by Taliban gunmen.

The Taliban murdered five women polio health workers in a series of attacks in Pakistan today.

Six anti-polio campaign workers have been shot dead by suspected Taliban gunmen in Pakistan.

Five Taliban fighters were killed in a battle with security forces today after they fled to a village in north-western Pakistan near an international airport they helped attack the night before, officials said.

Militants fired three rockets at an airport in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar tonight, killing three people and wounding over 30 others.

Six people were killed when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up near a vehicle carrying the regional head of a government-allied militia in north-west Pakistan, officials have said.

A car bomb tore through a crowded bazaar outside an office for anti-Taliban tribal elders Saturday in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 17 people, officials said.

Schools in Pakistan's Swat Valley have closed in protest as anger erupted across the country over the Taliban attack on a 14-year-old activist famed for promoting girls' education.

Doctors in Pakistan have successfully removed a bullet from a 14-year-old girl who was shot by the Taliban for speaking out in support of education for women, officials said today.

Pakistan has tried to distance itself from the offer by one of its cabinet ministers to pay anyone who kills the maker of the anti-Islam film.

Pakistan said an offer by one of its ministers of US$100,000 for anyone who kills the maker of an anti-Islam film does not represent official policy.

A Taliban suicide car bomber attacked a rival militant commander's compound in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people, as heavily armed attackers killed eight members of the coast guard in the south-west, officials said.

At least half a dozen gunmen have attacked a compound housing policemen in eastern Pakistan, killing nine of them.

A close ally of a senior militant has been killed in a suspected US drone attack in Pakistan’s tribal region, intelligence officials have revealed.

A blast believed to have been set off by a suicide bomber killed at least four people at a political rally in north-western Pakistan today, police said.

At least 17 people were killed and about 40 injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a police station in north-western Pakistan today.

THE Taliban hinted yesterday they may launch attacks against foreigners helping Pakistan respond to the worst floods in the country’s history, saying their presence was “unacceptable”. The UN said it would not be deterred by violent threats.

THE Pakistan floods could affect more people than the world’s last three great disasters combined, the UN warned yesterday.

The Pakistan floods could affect more people than the world’s last three great disasters combined, the UN warned today.

FRESH rains lashed flood-hit Pakistan yesterday, hampering aid efforts and threatening to deepen a crisis affecting 15 million people in the country’s worst ever floods.

PAKISTAN battled to contain flooding in its rich agricultural south yesterday, evacuating half a million people from risk areas as the UN warned of the “daunting” scale of the crisis.

PAKISTAN issued fresh flood warnings, braced for further chaos and a public health disaster as disease broke out among 3.2 million people hit by the worst floods in generations.