THE death toll from massive floods in northwestern Pakistan rose to 1,100 as rescue workers struggled to save more than 27,000 people still trapped by the raging water.

Police said a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in northwestern Pakistan killed 11 people, including three police.

A suicide bomber has targeted two buses in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least five people.

A moderate earthquake rattled northern Pakistan and Afghanistan but there are no reports of injuries or damage.

A SUICIDE bomber killed 49 people in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan yesterday pushing the country closer to an offensive against militants in their main stronghold along the Afghan border.

Suspected militants have blown up a school for girls close to the main city in northwestern Pakistan.

Pakistan suspended truck shipments of US military supplies through the famed Khyber Pass after launching an offensive against militants who are trying to cripple Washington’s war on a resurgent Taliban in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Police say a blast at the funeral of a Shiite Muslim cleric has killed at least six people in northwestern Pakistan.

A spokesman says unknown gunmen have shot dead a leader of an outlawed Pakistani militant group in the country’s volatile northwest.

Gunmen have killed four Shiite Muslims in northwestern Pakistan.

A suicide bomber struck a bus carrying schoolchildren at a military base in northwestern Pakistan today, wounding at least five of the children, an army spokesman said.

Militants seized a police post and paramilitary troops set up sandbagged bunkers to bolster security in a tense town in northwestern Pakistan where supporters of a pro-Taliban cleric have taken up arms against the government, police said today.

A suicide bomber set off a blast that killed at least 15 people and injured 22 others today at a crowded police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, police said.

A car bomb exploded in the car park of a military-owned bank in northwestern Pakistan today, wounding 12 people, police said.

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden car at a roadside security post in northwestern Pakistan today, killing four troops and wounding eight others, officials said.

Tribesmen shot four people to death in a public execution in northwestern Pakistan, after a council of elders found them guilty of adultery, an official said.

Police shot dead a suspected militant recruiter at a boys school in northwestern Pakistan on Monday after hearing that he was trying to sign up students for suicide bombings and holy war, police said.

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.

Ten people were killed as a chairlift broke, sending passengers falling into a deep ravine in a remote town in northwestern Pakistan today, police said.

A factory wall collapsed today killing six children and injuring five others in a farming village in northwestern Pakistan, police said.

Pakistan’s second outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu strain was confirmed today at a poultry farm near the capital, the agriculture ministry said.

Suspected Islamic militants triggered two bombs in northwestern Pakistan today, with one exploding near a police van that left seven people dead and four wounded, officials said.

A bomb planted in a police van exploded in northwestern Pakistan today, killing six people and wounding five others, an official said.

Osama bin Laden may no longer have operational control of his terror network, the US ambassador to Pakistan told a gathering of local journalists today, according to two Pakistani television channels.

HUNDREDS more survivors of Pakistan’s huge earthquake sought treatment yesterday for weather- related ailments following a cold snap, hospital officials said.

Hundreds more survivors of Pakistan’s huge earthquake sought treatment today for weather-related ailments following a cold snap, hospital officials said.

A severe aftershock jolted northwestern Pakistan today, a day after India sharply curtailed plans to open its Kashmir border to help survivors of the region’s massive earthquake.

ABOUT 200 desperate people pushed and fought each other for milk, bread and biscuits brought in by mule train yesterday.

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.

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 train hit a minibus at an unmanned railroad crossing in northwestern Pakistan today, killing at least seven people and injuring seven others, police said.

A speeding oil tanker slammed into a passenger bus on a road in northwestern Pakistan today, killing 17 people and injuring two others, police said.

Al-Qaida’s reputed No. 3 Abu Farraj al-Libbi stayed silent for hours following his capture this week before confessing his identity to interrogators whose initial results have been forwarded to the US, an intelligence official said today.

Troops in helicopters brought badly needed relief supplies to flood-swamped villages in southwestern Pakistan, as the nationwide death toll from a week of heavy rain and snow climbed past 360.

A MAN in northwestern Pakistan shot and killed five women, including his new bride, because he was angry that their relatives had invited enemies to his wedding, police said.

A BOMBING and a series of rocket attacks on Pakistani forces have raised fears that their bloody offensive against al-Qaida militants could be provoking a broad backlash.

A roadside bomb killed three police officers and a civilian in the latest of a series of attacks raising fears that a bloody offensive by Pakistani forces against al-Qaida militants could be provoking a broad backlash.

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.

At least 100 people were killed in an earthquake that shook a wide area of Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan, the United Nations said today.