Gunmen attacked the office of a British-based aid group in north-western Pakistan today killing four local staff members.

Authorities closed a zoo in Pakistan’s capital today after the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in its peacocks and geese.

Twenty children from families displaced by last year’s massive earthquake have died of pneumonia and dysentery during a burst of cold weather in mountains of north-western Pakistan, an official said today.

A moderate earthquake shook north-western Pakistan and the disputed region of Kashmir, but there were no reports of casualties, seismologists said.

NEW casualty figures from the South Asian earthquake have pushed the death toll to more than 79,000.

New figures released by regional officials today pushed the death toll in South Asia’s earthquake to more than 79,000.

Destruction in the two Pakistan valleys leading out of Muzaffarabad may be worse than in the town itself, the international Red Cross said today after its first helicopter flight over the area devastated by Saturday’s earthquake.

Trucks of aid arrived in the ruined capital of Pakistan-ruled Kashmir today, and victims scuffled for badly needed food and blankets three days after a devastating earthquake flattened whole communities, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless.

IT was just before 9am and 17-year-old Uzair Mohammed Qureshi was reading his chemistry book as the ground began to shake.

LYING on makeshift beds on a hospital lawn in this north-western Pakistani hill town, some screaming in pain, hundreds of men, women and children wait for help.

More than 3,000 people died today when a massive earthquake triggered landslides, toppled an apartment building and flattened villages of mud-brick homes near the border between Pakistan and India.

The death toll in the powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake near the Pakistan-India border climbed to more than 2,000 today and included 250 girls who were crushed by rubble when their school collapsed.

A powerful 7.6-magnitude earthquake reduced villages to rubble in Pakistan and India on today, killing hundreds of people. Pakistan’s army described the damage as widespread and said it included villages buried in quake-induced landslides.

Two strong earthquakes rattled a remote region of northern Pakistan today, toppling walls and setting off landslides that killed at least 17 people, officials said.

Thirteen people - mostly German and Austrian tourists - have been injured in an explosion today at an archaeological site in northern Pakistan.