British detectives investigating the assassination of Benazir Bhutto will not be hindered by government restrictions, President Pervez Musharraf promised today.

Police guards shot and killed a suicide attacker today as he tried to sneak into a training facility for 900 police recruits in eastern Pakistan, preventing him from detonating his explosives.

A Briton said to have been held in Pakistan over the London terror attacks had telephone links with two of the suicide bombers, it was reported today.

Pakistan said today it had arrested the outspoken former leader of a militant Islamic group accused by India of helping orchestrate an attack on its Parliament that has taken the two countries to the brink of hostilities.