The siege of a hospital in south-western Pakistan has ended after security forces stormed the building.

A senior Pakistani police officer says gunmen have taken over parts of a hospital in a south-western Pakistan.

The governor of a province in south-western Pakistan where 81 people died in a massive bombing says security officials are too scared of retribution from terrorists to do their jobs.

At least one civilian has been killed and eight others injured by a roadside bomb targeting a security convoy in south-western Pakistan, police said today.

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

Five students were killed and more than 50 other people injured when a bomb ripped through a bus heading to a university in south-western Pakistan today, police said.

A bomb attached to a bicycle exploded outside a seminary in south-western Pakistan today, killing at least nine people, police said.

A roadside bomb targeting paramilitary troops has killed two civilians in south-western Pakistan, police said.

The beheaded body of a British Red Cross worker held captive in Pakistan since January was found in an orchard, with a note attached saying he was killed because no ransom was paid, police said.

Suspected Sunni extremists opened fire on Shiite Muslims travelling through south-western Pakistan today, killing 13 people and injuring seven others in the latest apparent sectarian attack to hit the country, police said.

A car bomb exploded in south-western Pakistan today, killing at least five people.

Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims in south-western Pakistan today, killing 11 people in what appeared to be a sectarian attack.

Nine men have been rescued after being trapped for two days in a coal mine in south-western Pakistan which collapsed after a series of methane gas explosions, a senior official said today.

At least 21 people have been killed at a coal mine in south-western Pakistan that caved in after a methane gas explosion, officials said.

A shoot-out inside a mosque in south-western Pakistan wounded 18 people today during one of Islam’s most important holidays.

Gunmen torched more than two dozen tankers carrying fuel to Nato troops and killed a driver today – the sixth attack on convoys taking supplies to Afghanistan since Pakistan closed a key border crossing almost a week ago.

At least 22 people died in an explosion at a Shiite procession in south-western Pakistan today.

Rioting has broken out in south-western Pakistan today after police said they found the dead bodies of three missing political dissidents.

The death toll from the earthquake that devastated an impoverished valley in south-western Pakistan rose to 215 today.

More than 100 people have been killed in an earthquake in south-western Pakistan today.

A suicide attacker blew himself up at a Shiite mosque in the Pakistan city of Peshawar today killing at least five people and wounding 20.

Six people were killed and four others wounded when a bomb exploded inside an Islamic school in south-western Pakistan today, officials said.

Pakistan today called on the international community to rush aid to one million people left homeless by massive flooding amid forecasts that still more rain would be dumped on the stricken areas in coming days.

Floods due to a cyclone and rain have left as many as 100 people dead in south-western Pakistan, a senior relief official said, as the government appealed for donations of tents to shelter about 1 million people left homeless by the flooding.

A grisly video circulating in Pakistan allegedly shows a child beheading Ghulam Nabi, a Pakistani militant accused of betraying a top Taliban official killed in a December air strike in Afghanistan.

A suicide bomber blew himself up inside a courtroom in troubled south-western Pakistan on Saturday, killing a judge and 14 others, police and other officials said.

A powerful bomb exploded inside a courtroom in south-western Pakistan today, killing a judge and 12 others, police said.

A magnitude 4.6 earthquake was felt in south-western Pakistan today, but there were no immediate damage reports.

Security forces killed 31 fighters in an offensive against renegade Baluch tribesmen in south-western Pakistan, officials said today.

A bomb ripped through a roadside tea stall in south-western Pakistan today, killing five people and wounding 17.

A bomb ripped through a roadside tea stall today in south-western Pakistan, killing four people and wounding 14, police said.

When Taliban militant Syed Azizullah died during fighting in southern Afghanistan, his body was sent to his native Pakistan where a provincial official gave a eulogy before hundreds of Pashtun tribesmen. A flag of the Islamist militia fluttered by the grave.

Suspected tribal militants used bombs to blow up three state-owned gas pipelines in south-western Pakistan today, leaving thousands of domestic consumers without natural gas, but injuring no one, officials said.

Police who raided a militant hideout said today they arrested the alleged mastermind of major sectarian attacks that killed more than 100 minority Shiite Muslims in south-western Pakistan.

A powerful bomb has blown up a gas pipeline in a remote town of insurgency-wracked south-western Pakistan, gutting dozens of shops but causing no casualties, a government official said today.

Five bombs ripped through a police training school in south-western Pakistan early today, leaving six policemen dead and nine wounded, a police official and a doctor said.

Gunmen riding on a motorcycle opened fire on a former regional Taliban leader in south-western Pakistan today, killing him before fleeing, police said.

A crowded bus carrying a wedding party hit an anti-tank mine yesterday in a volatile region of south-western Pakistan, killing at least 30 people and wounding eight, a doctor and officials said.

A bomb explosion derailed a passenger train today, shortly after it was attacked by gunmen in south-western Pakistan. There were no immediate reports of injury.

Gunmen opened fire with assault rifles on a passenger train in south-western Pakistan, sparking a gun battle with security forces, a railway official said. There were no immediate reports of injury.

Police have arrested 11 people with suspected links to a bus bombing that killed 13 people and wounded 20 in south-western Pakistan.

A threatening phone call that forced the United Nations to close offices in south-western Pakistan said al-Qaida would attack the world body’s offices there.

A mild earthquake hit Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi, causing panic among residents but no injuries, an official said today.