Pakistan’s former leader Pervez Musharraf has been charged with murder over the 2007 assassination of prime minister Benazir Bhutto, deepening the fall of a once-powerful figure who returned to the country this year to make a political comeback.

A Pakistani court has charged former Pakistani President and army chief, Pervez Musharraf, in connection with the 2007 assassination of a former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

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.

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.

At least five people have been killed and 90 others wounded after a bombing at a Shiite religious procession in north-western Pakistan on Sunday which the Taliban has claimed responsibility for.

Pakistani police have arrested a number of suspects in the case of a 14-year-old girl shot in the head by the Taliban after promoting girls’ education and speaking out about the group’s atrocities.

The Taliban has vowed to hunt down and kill a Pakistani teenager they shot earlier this week.

A young Christian girl accused burning pages of the Islam’s holy book has been freed from a jail near the capital, according to a Pakistani jail official.

A Pakistani airliner with up to 127 people on board crashed in bad weather as it came in to land in Islamabad yesterday, scattering wreckage and leaving no sign of survivors.

The Pakistani militant leader with a $10m (€7.6m) bounty on his head has mocked America and dared it to arrest him.

Two police officers were indicted for the 2007 assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto and will face trial along with five members of the Pakistani Taliban, a state prosecutor said.

PAKISTAN’S military was ridiculed and accused of complicity in the media yesterday after a small group of militants laid siege to a naval air base, holding out for 16 hours against hundreds of commandos and rangers.

TROOPS yesterday recaptured a Pakistani naval air force base after a 16-hour battle with Taliban gunmen who had attacked the base to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden.

GUNMEN attacked Pakistan’s naval aviation base yesterday, starting fires, setting off explosions and fighting pitched gunbattles inside one of the country’s most heavily guarded military installations.

Osama Bin Laden's daughter has claimed that her father was captured alive and then shot dead by US special forces in the first few minutes of their 40-minute operation at his compound, it was reported today.

A PAKISTANI man has been jailed for 60 years for kidnapping a five-year-old British boy who was on holiday in the country.

A Pakistani man has been jailed for 60 years for kidnapping a five-year-old British boy who was on holiday in the country.

The July 7 extremists received bomb-making instruction from a mystery figure in Pakistan, an inquest in London heard today.

THE killer of a liberal Pakistani politician provided a judge yesterday with the names of two men whose sermons allegedly sparked him to act.

The bodyguard who murdered liberal Pakistani governor Salman Taseer said today he was inspired by sermons from two Islamic clerics.

A Pakistani court has issued arrest warrants for two senior police officials accused of negligence in the assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, a prosecutor said today.

Pakistan has sidelined eight officials, including policemen, responsible for the security of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.

PAKISTANI authorities could have prevented the 2007 murder of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto and deliberately failed to properly investigate her death, a UN-appointed independent panel has said.

Authorities arrested six suspected Taliban militants with a suicide vest and hand grenades allegedly on their way to attack a five-star hotel and kill Americans in Pakistan's cultural capital, said police.

Police commandos acting on a tip-off killed one militant and arrested five others today in a raid against a bombing cell accused in recent attacks around the north west Pakistani city of Peshawar, authorities said today.

MILITANTS stormed a mosque near Pakistan’s army headquarters, killing at least 36 worshippers, including six military officers, during prayers yesterday as they sprayed gunfire and threw grenades before blowing themselves up, officials said.

A suspected Taliban suicide attack on a mosque near Pakistan’s army headquarters killed at least 36 people and wounded dozens of others today.

At least 26 people were killed and 20 were wounded in a suicide attack on a mosque in Pakistan today.

PAKISTAN charged seven men involved in last year’s Mumbai attacks yesterday, its first indictment in a case being monitored by India and the United States to see if Islamabad makes good on promises to bring those responsible to justice.

A suicide bomber killed 30 people outside a bank near Pakistan’s capital today, while the UN said spreading violence in the country had forced it to suspend long-term development work in the north west regions along the Afghan border.

At least 20 people were killed today in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, a rescue official said.

At least four people have been killed in an explosion in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, just a few miles away from the capital Islamabad.

Pakistan was hit by a wave of co-ordinated terror attacks today aimed at disrupting a planned offensive against the Taliban on their home territory.

Pakistan's president said his government would not be deterred from eliminating extremists, despite a wave of attacks today which left at least 26 people dead in Lahore.

A SUSPECTED suicide bomber killed 41 people in an attack on the Pakistani military yesterday as the Taliban claimed responsibility for a weekend raid on the army’s headquarters.

A suicide car bombing targeting Pakistani troops killed 41 people today, the fourth militant attack in just over a week, as the Taliban pledged to mobilise fighters across the country for more strikes.

Pakistani fighter jets bombed suspected militant hide-outs today in a tribal region where the military had previously declared victory over the Taliban, killing eight alleged extremists a day after the end of a deadly siege of the army’s headquarters.

At least 19 people died as Pakistani commandos freed dozens of hostages seized by militants at the army's own headquarters today.

Militants were holding several security officers hostage inside Pakistan's army headquarters today after they and others attacked the complex in an audacious assault on the country's most powerful institution.

Gunmen wearing military uniforms and wielding assault rifles and grenades attacked Pakistan’s army headquarters today, sparking a ferocious gun battle outside the capital that killed four of the assailants and at least six soldiers, authorities said.

A team of gunmen wielding assault rifles and grenades tried to break into Pakistan’s army headquarters today, sparking a ferocious 45-minute gun battle outside the capital that ended when all the assailants were killed, authorities said.

The leader of a banned Islamist group which India has accused of carrying out attacks on its financial capital late last year was placed under house arrest again today.

A Pakistani intelligence agency has revealed that they have proof that a banned militant group was directly involved in last year’s terror attacks in Mumbai.

A message the sole surviving Mumbai massacre gunman hoped to get to his backers in Pakistan was ordered to be kept secret by a judge in India today.