New Zealand's batsmen are entitled to approach their demanding series against Pakistan with a touch more confidence, now that Saeed Ajmal has been rubbed out of the game.

Qureshi Ayub Mohammed and Ali Shan Muzahir have become famous for something other than their curry: they are Pakistan's first Commonwealth Games lawn bowlers.

A young couple murdered in Pakistan barely a week after they had married for love were killed as a warning to other girls not to marry without the permission of their parents, witnesses said.

Pakistan security forces relaunched their military operation at Karachi airport last night after gunfire was heard hours after all the attackers had been declared dead.

Their relationship, now the subject of feverish worldwide interest, began some six years ago, in the fields surrounding Jhok Kallu Khan, a remote Punjab village.

A New Zealander who has come home after heading the Salvation Army in Pakistan says prohibition never works, but more restrictions can reduce the harm from drugs and alcohol.

A British woman held in a Pakistani jail with her baby was yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment for trying to smuggle heroin worth £3.2m (NZD$6m) out of the country.

A car bomb ripped through a crowded street in Peshawar's oldest bazaar, killing 40 people in the third blast to hit the troubled city in a week, officials said.

Separatist militants fired two rockets that narrowly missed a Pakistani government helicopter surveying a region devastated by an earthquake, underscoring the dangers authorities face in helping victims in Baluchistan.

Survivors built makeshift shelters with sticks and bedsheets after their mud houses were flattened in an earthquake that killed 348 people.

Rescuers struggled to help thousands of people injured and left homeless after their houses collapsed in a major earthquake in southwestern Pakistan, while the death toll from the massive temblor there rose to 285.

Alongside the carnage of Pakistan's massive earthquake came a new creation: a small island of mud, stone and bubbling gas pushed forth from the seabed.

Militants in Pakistan's most populous province are said to be training for what they expect will be an ethnic-based civil war in neighbouring Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw in 16 months, according to analysts and a senior militant.

A NZ father and son's tent has been found wrecked and vital climbing tools left abandoned, confirming fears they have been swept away and killed in an avalanche.

A teenager wounded alongside the campaigning schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai has condemned the Pakistan Taliban's letter of regret as a "pack of lies".

A Taliban commander has written to Malala Yousafzai, telling her she was shot for being critical of the Taliban - not because she championed girls' education.

The sound of footsteps and gunfire was coming closer where Osama bin Laden, his youngest wife Amal and one of his daughters must have known their life was reaching its end.

Daniel Pearl had been held captive in Pakistan for more than a month when Mariane, his wife, learned he was dead.

A senior Pakistan Taleban commander is believed to have been killed in a United States drone strike, the first since President Barack Obama announced tighter regulations on their use.

Imran Khan has suffered a head injury after falling 5m from a platform lift as it carried him on to a stage for an election rally.

Gunmen have killed the lead Pakistani prosecutor in two high-profile cases shocking a country reeling from Taliban attacks as it prepares for nationwide elections.