Gunmen have killed at least seven passengers in an attack on a bus in southern Pakistan.

A PAIR of eco-adventurers arrived in Britain yesterday after driving around the world in a clapped-out “biotruck” salvaged from a scrap yard and powered by used cooking oil.

Seven prisoners were killed in clashes which erupted following a search by authorities for mobile phones in a Pakistan jail, prison officials said today.

Police say a bus collided with an oil tanker in southern Pakistan, setting off a blazing inferno that killed 32 people.

At least 27 tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops in Afghanistan were attacked in southern Pakistan.

Floodwaters inundated a large town in southern Pakistan today, spreading further destruction in an area where hundreds of thousands of people who fled to higher ground are in dire need of food and water.

PAKISTAN battled yesterday to save areas threatened by more devastating flood waters as the United Nations warned that 800,000 people in desperate need of aid had been cut off by the deluge.

Pakistan is on red alert today for extreme flooding in its rich agricultural south.

Police arrested three Taliban militants today and seized a bomb-making factory in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi, a counter-terrorism official said.

A blast at a busy road junction in southern Pakistan’s Sindh province killed three people and injured nine others, police and hospital officials said.

Militants staged a rare attack in southern Pakistan today against trucks carrying supplies for Nato troops in neighbouring Afghanistan, wounding three people.

Three suicide bombers blew themselves up during a raid on their hide-out in southern Pakistan today.

Benazir Bhutto’s widower may seek election to Pakistan’s parliament in June, but denied speculation he wants to become prime minister.

Tens of thousands of Benazir Bhutto supporters gathered in a southern Pakistan town today as her widowed husband prepared to address the first major campaign rally by her opposition party since her assassination in a suicide attack six weeks ago.

More than 20 people died today in a wave of violence that swept across Pakistan following the assassination of Benazir Bhutto.

Benazir Bhutto supporters ransacked banks and burned train stations in furious rampages across Pakistan today.

A spokesman for a paramilitary group claims security forces in southern Pakistan have been given permission to shoot at rioters.

AN EXPRESS train crowded with holiday travellers derailed in southern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 58 people and leaving hundreds of terrified survivors to claw their way out of the wreckage in total darkness.

An express train crowded with holiday travellers derailed in Pakistan early today, killing at least 50 people and injuring many more, officials said.

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto arrived in north-western Pakistan today to launch her election campaign, a day after unveiling her party's platform despite calls from other opposition groups to boycott the January 8 vote.

Two children have been shot dead in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi amid growing political unrest, police said today.

A recently constructed road bridge collapsed in the southern Pakistan city of Karachi today, killing at least four people and injuring others, officials said.

The devastating monsoon floods that killed thousands and displaced millions in northern India and Bangladesh over the last few weeks claimed at least another 40 lives today, officials said.

The first flight carrying Irish-funded aid supplies will leave from Italy this weekend to help victims devastated by floods in Pakistan.

Militants bombed a Pakistan army convoy then raked it with gunfire, killing 17 soldiers and continuing a wave of violence that has seen 41 deaths in the past few days.

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 minibus and an oil tanker collided in southern Pakistan today, killing 20 people and injuring 12, police said.

A home-made bomb exploded in a restaurant in southern Pakistan today, wounding nine people, police said.

A suicide attacker today detonated a bomb at a mass prayer service in southern Pakistan, police said, killing at least 41 other people including the top leadership of an influential Sunni Muslim religious group.

A powerful bomb exploded during evening prayers at a public park in southern Pakistan today, killing at least 32 people and injuring dozens more, witnesses and a doctor said.

A stampede after a religious gathering for women in southern Pakistan today left at least 26 women and children dead and more than 70 others injured, police and doctors said.

Two trains, one carrying oil, collided in southern Pakistan on today, sparking a fire. There were no immediate reports of injuries.

A MAN on a motorbike drove up to a crowd watching a wrestling match in an Afghan border town yesterday and detonated a bomb killing 20 people and wounding at least 30 others — the deadliest in a recent spate of attacks.

A suicide attacker on a motorbike killed 20 people and wounded more than 20 others today in the Afghan border town of Spinboldak.

A POWERFUL car bomb exploded outside a KFC restaurant in southern Pakistan yesterday, setting off a massive fireball that overturned cars and shattered steel and glass. Three people were killed and 22 injured.

About 60 people died today when their overloaded ferry capsized in the Arabian Sea off southern Pakistan, a navy spokesman said.

A Pakistan air force jet crashed during a routine training flight in southern Pakistan today, but no one was hurt.

Police and intelligence agents today arrested a suspected militant who was wanted for a role in the killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, officials said.

THE British government yesterday flatly rejected an influential think-tank report which said Britain’s role in the war on Iraq left it more vulnerable to terror attacks such as the July 7 bombings.

THREE of the four suspected suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks in London travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan last year, an immigration official said yesterday, as authorities tried to determine whether extremists in Pakistan had aided the deadly attacks.

Three of the four suspected suicide bombers in the July 7 attacks in London travelled to Karachi in southern Pakistan in 2004, but the purpose of their visits was unclear, an immigration official said today.

Railway workers were clearing debris and repairing damaged train tracks in southern Pakistan today, a day after the country’s worst rail crash in more than a decade left at least 133 people dead and hundreds injured.

THREE trains crashed after a train driver misread a signal in southern Pakistan yesterday, killing at least 128 people and injuring hundreds more.

Three trains collided in a deadly chain-reaction after a conductor misread a signal in southern Pakistan, killing at least 107 people and wounding hundreds more in the country’s worst crash in more than a decade.