Some 10 militants suspected of involvement in an attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai have been arrested, Pakistan’s army says.

Pakistan has launched a ground offensive against Taliban strongholds near the Afghan border after evacuating nearly half a million residents from the tribal region.

As many as 100 people have been killed in airstrikes in the northwestern tribal regions of Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, intelligence officials said.

A top leader of Pakistan’s Taliban has been shot dead in the country’s tribal region near the Afghan border, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.

A Taliban bombing inside an army compound in northwest Pakistan killed at least 20 troops, officials and militants said, in one of the deadliest attacks to target the country’s forces as they battle insurgents on its volatile frontier.

The Pakistani Taliban chose the ruthless commander who planned the attack on teenage activist Malala Yousafzai as the militant group’s new leader yesterday, and it ruled out holding peace talks with the government.

The Pakistani government accused the US of sabotaging peace talks with domestic Taliban fighters by killing their leader in a drone strike, as the militants began the process of choosing a successor.

Intelligence officials and militant commanders say the Pakistani Taliban are meeting to choose a new leader after their chief was killed in a US drone strike.

The leader of the Pakistani Taliban was one of three people killed in a suspected US drone strike, intelligence officials say.

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Human rights group Amnesty International has called on the US to investigate reports of civilians hit by CIA drone strikes aimed at militants in Pakistan.

Unmanned US aircraft fired four missiles at a house in north-west Pakistan today, killing 16 suspected militants, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

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Two US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal regions bordering Afghanistan killed 13 people, including a top militant commander who had a truce with the military, intelligence officials said.

A car bomb targeting a bus carrying Shiite Muslim pilgrims killed 19 people in south-west Pakistan today.

A suspected US drone missile strike has killed five people in a militant haven in north-west Pakistan, near the Afghan border, intelligence officials said today.

A US drone has fired two missiles at a vehicle in north west Pakistan, killing four suspected militants.

A suspected US missile strike has killed four people near the Afghan border, according to Pakistani intelligence officials.

Gunmen attacked an office of the security force’s intelligence agency in north-west Pakistan today, taking several hostages and reportedly killing at least one officer, police said.

Gunmen on motorcycles opened fire at a roadside restaurant in south-western Pakistan today, killing 18 people, officials said.

Al-Qaida’s second in command in Pakistan was in a house hit by a US drone strike, according to intelligence officials, but they do not know whether he was killed.

Militants have ambushed a Pakistan army security checkpoint in a region close to the border with Afghanistan, killing nine soldiers.

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Afghanistan’s Taliban said they launched a spring offensive yesterday with multiple attacks against Western embassies in the central diplomatic area and at parliament in Kabul, with heavy explosions, rockets and gunfire rattling the city.

The presidents of Afghanistan and Iran have convened in Pakistan for a three-way summit that is expected to focus on steps Islamabad can take to bring about peace talks with the Afghan Taliban.

A leading Taliban commander and key link to al-Qaida, has been killed in a US drone attack on a house in Pakistan’s north-west tribal region.

Four alleged militants were killed today when a suspected US drone fired missiles at a house and a vehicle in north-western Pakistan, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Pakistani militants today killed 15 security force members they kidnapped last month close to the Afghan border, showing that not all insurgent factions are interested in reported peace talks with the government.

Seven suspected militants have been killed in a US drone missile strike at a house in Pakistan near the Afghan border, reports say.

Eleven Taliban militants were killed in two American drone strikes in Pakistan’s rugged tribal regions today, officials said.

An American missile strike has killed a senior member of the militant Haqqani network in north-western Pakistan, intelligence officials say.

Afghan intelligence officials said today that they have broken up a cell which was plotting to kill President Hamid Karzai, arresting six people in Kabul whom they claimed were affiliated with al-Qaida and the Haqqani militant group.

AFGHANISTAN’S intelligence agency said last night it had thwarted a plot to assassinate President Hamid Karzai after arresting a bodyguard and five people with links to the Haqqani network and al-Qaida.

Al-Qaida’s second-in-command, Atiyah Abd al-Rahman, has been killed in Pakistan, US and Pakistani officials said today.

Suspected US unmanned aircraft fired missiles at a house in north-western Pakistan today, killing 13 alleged militants in the second such attack in less than 12 hours, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

Suspected US drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house in north west Pakistan today, killing 12 people in a rare attack in an area where some of Nato’s fiercest enemies have reportedly travelled, Pakistani officials said.

Suspected US drones fired missiles at a vehicle and a house in north-west Pakistan today, killing at least seven people in a rare attack in an area where some of Nato’s fiercest enemies have reportedly travelled, Pakistani officials said.

Taliban fighters killed eight Pakistani soldiers at a checkpoint in an Afghan border region that the army had said was cleared of insurgents, while two bomb attacks today in the north-west killed six civilians, officials said.

US missiles have killed 23 suspected militants in an attack on a compound in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border.

A day-long clash between militants from Afghanistan who crossed the border and attacked a Pakistani checkpoint left 23 troops and 35 insurgents dead, police said today, underlining the challenges facing Pakistan as it tries to stamp out insurgents in its north-west.

A bomb has exploded in a hotel in the main town of a militant-infested Pakistani region close to the Afghan border, intelligence officials and a witness said.

Pakistani troops and a Nato helicopter exchanged fire today, further straining relations with the West following the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

A Nato helicopter has attacked a Pakistani army post on the border with Afghanistan, injuring two soldiers, Pakistan intelligence officials said.

US missiles have killed at least five alleged militants in a tribal region of Pakistan along the Afghan border – the third such attack since the US killing of Osama bin Laden, intelligence officials said.