Suicide attackers shot their way past guards and set off a massive blast outside a luxury hotel, popular with foreigners and affluent Pakistanis, last night, killing at least 11 people and wounding 70, including a British aid worker.

Thousands of angry villagers who have laid siege to a group of Taliban gunmen in Pakistan were today backed up by army helicopter gunships.

A suicide bomber killed 30 people attending prayers at a mosque in Pakistan’s violence-racked north west today.