Two Pakistani intelligence officials said an American drone has fired two missiles at a home near the Afghan border, killing four foreign militants.

Two suspected US missile attacks hit alleged militant targets in a Pakistani tribal area today, killing at least 14 people.

THE Pakistani Taliban staged a public execution in front of hundreds of tribesmen in the country’s north-west after an Islamic court convicted the man of killing two brothers, intelligence officials and a local resident said yesterday.

Police today blamed the Pakistani Taliban for attacks that killed 93 people at two mosques belonging to a minority sect.

A US missile strike has killed two foreign militant suspects and eight Pakistanis near the Afghan border, two intelligence officials said today.

Suspected US drones fired missiles at vehicles and hit a militant hide-out in a tribal region of north-western Pakistan today, killing at least nine insurgents, two officials said.

A suspected US drone crashed in Pakistan’s lawless tribal area near the Afghan border today, intelligence officials and a local resident said.

SECURITY forces have rescued several children forcibly recruited by the Taliban, allegedly to be used as fighters or suicide bombers, and there could be hundreds more like them, an army official has said.

Nine people were killed in US missile strike on a Taliban-linked school in north-west Pakistan today.

A suicide car bomber attacked an army convoy in Pakistan’s volatile north-western tribal area today, killing three civilians and three soldiers, an army spokesman said.

A suspected US missile strike killed 12 people in north-western Pakistan today.

Pakistani officials say explosions caused by a suspected US missile strike have killed eight people in a militant stronghold near the Afghan border.

Police examined clothing, shoes and the severed legs of a man today trying to determine the identity of a suicide bomber who killed at least 50 people during a holiday prayer service at a crowded mosque in north-western Pakistan.

Shelling resumed this morning in an area of northwest Pakistan where battles between troops and militants have killed up to 250 people and sent thousands more fleeing, witnesses said.

A suspected Islamic militant drove his explosive-laden car into a military convoy in north-western Pakistan today, killing five soldiers and wounding five more.

A suspected Islamic militant drove his explosive-laden car into a military convoy in north-western Pakistan today, killing four soldiers and wounding six more.

Suspected Islamic militants decapitated one Afghan man and shot dead another after accusing them of spying for the US in a tribal region in north-western Pakistan, an intelligence official said today.

Some low-level al-Qaida members were among a dozen militant fighters killed by an artillery and helicopter attack on two compounds near the Afghan border, officials said today, raising the toll from the strike a day earlier from 10.

A suicide attacker drove an explosive-laden car into traffic at a busy bus station in north-western Pakistan today, unleashing a blast that killed nine people and wounded 35 others, officials said.

A 45-member delegation of Pakistani tribal elders began talks with militant leaders near the Afghan border today in a bid to stem the spiralling violence that erupted after Islamic extremists scrapped a peace deal.

Suicide bombers struck today in two areas of north-western Pakistan, killing up to 38 people, while Taliban militants broke a 10-month-old peace pact with the government along the frontier with Afghanistan.

Three blasts struck a military convoy in north-western Pakistan today, killing 14 people in an intensifying militant campaign of violence against the government in the restive border region, an army spokesman said.

Thousands of troops were deployed to north-west Pakistan to try dissuading outlawed Islamic militants from launching a holy war against the government for its bloody attack on a radical mosque, officials said today.

Uzbeks, Chechens and Arabs were among about 30 militants killed in a missile attack on a suspected al-Qaida hideout in north-west Pakistan near the Afghan border, officials said today.

A suicide car bomber attacked a military convoy in north-western Pakistan, killing himself and at least four soldiers.

Thousands of mourners including Islamic militants carrying assault rifles and bandoliers attended a funeral service today in a Pakistani tribal village for a Taliban fighter allegedly killed in a Nato raid in neighbouring Afghanistan, witnesses said.

Militants decapitated an Islamic cleric and an Afghan refugee in north-western Pakistan on suspicion of spying for US and Afghan authorities, an intelligence official said today.

A suicide car bomber attacked a military check point in tribal-dominated northwestern Pakistan today, killing at least six soldiers and wounding 10 others, officials said.

Suspected militants killed a prominent Islamic cleric in a tribal region in north western Pakistan because they believed he had cooperated with authorities who are hunting them, intelligence officials said tonight.

Two men have been beheaded in a lawless tribal region of Pakistan near the Afghan border on suspicion that they were spies for the US, an intelligence official said today.

Pakistani army helicopters have destroyed an insurgent hideout in north-western Pakistan and killed at least seven militants in an attack targeting an Egyptian al-Qaida operative wanted for the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

Pakistani helicopter gunships opened fire after pro-Taliban tribesmen traded mortar and gun fire with security forces near the Afghan border today. At least 22 militants were killed, the interior minister said.

Pakistani security forces backed by helicopter gunships struck a militant hide-out today in a tribal region near the Afghan border, killing about three dozen fighters, including a Chechen commander linked to al-Qaida.

Attackers fired rockets at a military post in a Pakistani tribal region near Afghanistan, killing seven soldiers and injuring two others, officials said today.

A senior al-Qaida operative has died in an explosion in a north-western Pakistan tribal area, the president said today.

Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf says foreign students will be ordered to leave Islamic religious schools and has said leaders of banned extremist groups will be arrested, in a new anti-terror crackdown.

THE United States plans to increase spending significantly in Afghanistan in a show of support for President Hamid Karzai, a US administration official said yesterday.

A rocket was fired at a building in Pakistan’s remote tribal belt, where US special forces hunting remaining Taliban and al Qaida fighters are believed to be staying, a local official said today.