The army claimed Pakistan’s Taliban were in disarray after soldiers captured the hometown of the militants’ chief, a strategic prize as the military pushes deeper into an insurgent stronghold along the Afghan border.

The army captured the strategically located hometown of Pakistan’s Taliban chief today after days of fierce fighting, officials said, its first major prize in a US-backed anti-Taliban offensive along the Afghan border.

A pair of gunmen on a motorbike killed a soldier and a high-ranking army officer in the Pakistani capital today, officials said.

Pakistani soldiers gained ground today as their offensive moved into the home city of Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud.

TALIBAN militants attacked Pakistani forces and recaptured a strategic town yesterday while two suicide bomb blasts at an Islamic university in the capital killed six people and wounded at least 20, officials said.