Armed militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 20 people and wounding dozens a little more than a year after the massacre of 134 students at a school in the area, officials said.

Pakistan hanged four convicted militants who were sentenced to death over a Taliban attack on an army-run school last year that killed more than 150 people, mostly children, officials said.

Pakistan has postponed the execution of the country’s first known paraplegic on death-row, about an hour before he was to be hanged.

Pakistan hanged a man whose case had triggered international outcry, because, his lawyers said, he was arrested as a juvenile and tortured into confessing to murder.

Thousands of Shiites across Pakistan mourned and protested today after a bombing at a Shiite mosque killed at least 59 people.

Five Pakistani men have been arrested in Afghanistan in connection with the Taliban massacre of 134 schoolchildren in the Pakistani city of Peshawar last month, officials from both countries said yesterday.

Security forces in Afghanistan have arrested five men suspected of being involved in the massacre last month at a military school in Pakistan in which 148 people were killed, mostly children.

Pakistani children returned to the school where Taliban gunmen killed 150 of their classmates and teachers last month, clutching their parents’ hands tightly in a poignant symbol of perseverance despite the horrors they had endured.

A minute's silence has been observed across France and around the world in solidarity with those affected by the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Pakistani air strikes have killed 31 militants and a suspected US drone strike killed another seven, officials said, as local troops press a six-month offensive in tribal regions along the Afghan border.

The alleged planner of the Peshawar school massacre has been killed in a shootout, a Pakistani official has said.

Authorities in Pakistan have hanged two convicted militants in the first executions following the reinstatement of the death penalty in the wake of this week’s Peshawar school massacre.

British boxer Amir Khan is to donate a pair of 24-carat gold threaded shorts, valued at £25-30k, to the school in Pakistan where 141 people were killed in a terrorist attack on Tuesday.

The Taliban massacre that killed 148 people, mostly children, at a military-run school in north-western Pakistan left a scene of heart-wrenching devastation, pools of blood and young lives snuffed out as the nation mourned and mass funerals for the victims got under way.

Pakistan has begun three days of mourning as the nation prepares for mass funerals for 141 people, most of them children, killed in a Taliban attack on a military-run school.

Taliban claim attack that targeted military school in Pakistan

It began like any other morning in Pakistan’s Army Public School in the north-western city of Peshawar. Students pored over their books. Teachers ruffled through notes and gave lectures.

It may seem disingenuous or hypocritical, on the island that produced the Enniskillen Poppy Day massacre and savage Omagh bombing, the Shankill Butchers as well as the IRA murder squads so adept at kidnapping and killing, to wonder how any person, how any organisation might imagine that a deadly attack on schoolchildren might further their cause.

Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 141 people, mostly children, before Pakistani officials declared a military operation to clear the school over.

The death toll in a Taliban attack on a school in the city of Peshawar in Pakistan has risen to 126, an official says.

Scores of students have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, according to reports.

Twenty students and one soldier have been killed in a Taliban attack on a military school in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, a hospital official said.

One person was killed and two others were wounded after someone opened fire on a Pakistani plane as it was landing in the north-western city of Peshawar.

A bomb attack in a Pakistan cinema has killed five people.

A Pakistani university has cancelled a ceremony launching a book by the teenage activist shot by the Taliban over security concerns.

A US businessman says he told federal investigators the location of Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan years before his killing and is seeking a US $25m reward.

Two Pakistani security guards protecting health workers in an anti-polio drive in the country’s north-west have been killed in a bomb attack.

A car bomb exploded on a crowded street in north-western Pakistan today, killing 37 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city of Peshawar in a week, officials said.

Angry Pakistani Christians have denounced the deadliest attack ever in the country against members of their faith as the death toll from a church bombing climbed overnight to 81.

A suicide bomb attack on a historic church in northwestern Pakistan killed at least 60 people today

A suicide bomber has attacked a historic church in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 25 people.

MARYAM was 14 when her father arranged for her to marry Ibrahim Saeed Ahmed, the man who would become the al Qaeda courier of Zero Dark Thirty fame and unwittingly lead the Americans to Osama bin Laden.

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

A car bomb exploded as a convoy of paramilitary troops passed through the north-west Pakistani city of Peshawar, killing at least 16 people and wounding 42 others.

Defying the danger of militant attacks, Pakistanis streamed to the polls today for a historic vote pitting a former cricket star against a two-time prime minister and an unpopular incumbent.

Gunmen have killed Pakistan's lead prosecutor investigating the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, throwing the case that also involves former ruler Pervez Musharraf into disarray.

Two bomb blasts have killed nine supporters of two Pakistani politicians at their campaign offices in the country’s north-west, Pakistani police said today.

Former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf is thought to be holed up at his private compound on the outskirts of Islamabad after a court revoked his bail in a case in which he is accused of treason.

A suicide bomber attacked a convoy carrying a paramilitary police commander in north-western Pakistan today, killing at least six people, including two women.

At least 12 people have been killed by a bomb blast at a refugee camp in north-western Pakistan, police said.

Pakistani officials say a bus carrying a wedding party has veered off a narrow road and plunged into a canal in the country’s north-west, killing at least 17.

At least five people were killed when militants wearing suicide vests and disguised as policemen attacked the office of a senior political official in north-western Pakistan today, police and hospital officials said.

The death toll from attacks on volunteers vaccinating children in Pakistan against polio rose to nine today, officials said.