Suspected Taliban militants have detonated two bombs which killed a boy, aged between five and seven, outside a school and injuring 10 other people, including five children.

A suicide bomber rammed a truck loaded with explosives into a police station in Pakistan today, killing seven passers-by.

Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas blew themselves up today in a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in north-western Pakistan, killing 41 people and wounding 62, officials said.

Two bombs exploded in a camp for people fleeing a military offensive in north-west Pakistan today, killing at least 20 and leaving about 50 others injured.

Pakistan was hit by a wave of co-ordinated terror attacks today aimed at disrupting a planned offensive against the Taliban on their home territory.

Pakistan's president said his government would not be deterred from eliminating extremists, despite a wave of attacks today which left at least 26 people dead in Lahore.

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.

Police disrupted a plan to assassinate a regional education minister in north-west Pakistan today when they engaged four militants in a gun battle that ended with a teenage suicide bomber blowing himself up.

A SUICIDE car bombing in Pakistan’s northwest has killed 25 people.

A suicide car bombing in Pakistan’s north-west has killed 25 people.

Pakistan lifted curfews on seven towns in the Swat Valley today in a further sign of confidence that its offensive against the Taliban is making progress.

SUSPECTED militants seized a Polish engineer yesterday and killed his Pakistani driver, guard and assistant in the country’s volatile northwest as security forces fought to take control of the border region.

A SUICIDE bomber blew himself up yesterday at a large meeting called by tribal elders pushing for peace in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 40 people and injuring more than 100, said witnesses and officials.

A suicide bomber attacked an anti al-Qaida peace meeting attended by thousands of tribe members in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least 40 people in the third suicide blast in the region in as many days.

A suicide bomber blew himself up among a group of Pakistani army recruits returning from a game of soccer today, killing nine of them.

Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded in a military district of a city in Pakistan today.

SEARCH teams pressed through fog, rain and strong wind yesterday to recover some mutilated bodies from the mountainous site of a military plane crash that killed 302 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard, the state news agency reported.

Four suspected al-Qaida fugitives were killed today in a shoot-out with police in a remote region of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, authorities said.

A Pakistani woman sentenced to death by stoning for adultery today said she had been misled by her lawyers into claiming she was raped, and that the baby was actually her husband’s.