A bomb exploded at a bus terminal in northwest Pakistan on Monday, killing up to six people in the sixth bomb attack in as many days to strike the country, police said.

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A suicide bomb blast targeting an Islamic party chief killed at least 13 people in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, officials said the second attack against him and his supporters in two days.

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The death toll from a coal mine collapse in Pakistan has risen to 24 with another 24 people still missing, officials said on Monday, adding they feared the toll would rise.

Rehana Yasmin thought the kindly women had come to help her after floods devastated her village. Instead they passed her on to two men — who raped her at gunpoint.

Afghan and Pakistani troops exchanged fire across their border on Wednesday, officials from both sides said, blaming each other for starting the incident.

Gunmen in southwestern Pakistan set ablaze 16 vehicles carrying fuel supplies for Nato troops in Afghanistan on Saturday, officials said.

A barrage of US missiles killed up to five militants in Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal district on Friday, destroying a vehicle used by Islamist fighters, security officials said.

Pakistani security officials reported the strikes in what is reputedly the country's most impregnable Taliban and Al Qaeda fortress, where US officials want Pakistan to launch a ground offensive to eliminate the militant threat.

A suicide bomber killed two pakistani policemen and wounded five others as security forces tried to stop him from walking into their local headquarters on Monday, police said.