Confirmation of the death of Mullah Muhammad Omar, the reclusive cleric who founded the Afghan Taliban, is likely to complicate the pursuit for peace in the country.

It may have been a joke, but two men are now locked up in Pakistan's Baluchistan province because they got married to each other - or at least acted as if they did.

The elite Seal Team Six fighting force which killed Osama bin Laden has warped and bloated into an unaccountable organisation which targets low-level militants and "street thugs", according to a new account of the secretive unit.

Zimbabwe have agreed to tour Pakistan for a five-match one-day series next month, the first test-playing nation to visit in six years.

A visiting Pakistani cabinet minister has made a plea for international cricket teams to return to playing Pakistan in Pakistan.

Pakistan has test-fired a ballistic missile able to carry a nuclear warhead to every part of India. Yesterday's test was another escalation in Islamabad's effort to keep pace with its neighbouring rival's formidable military advancements.

Having endured early miseries at the World Cup, Pakistan are at least up and moving.

The spirit of 1992 is driving Pakistan ahead of today's must-win clash with Zimbabwe at the Gabba.

For the women of Pakistan, it was cause for mourning. For the conservatives in the Muslim nation, it was cause for anger. But for the man himself, it was cause for celebration.

Man suspected of planning savage attack on Peshawar school that left 132 children dead is killed in police shoot out.

Three days after Pakistan suffered its worst ever terrorist attack, with the massacre of 132 schoolchildren in Peshawar, the country has hit back.

How many Pakistani children have to be slaughtered to stop a cricket match? We don't know, but it's more than 132, writes Paul Thomas.

The wounded children of Peshawar Army Public School paid tribute to the teachers who died saving their lives as Pakistan woke to the full horror of the Taliban massacre.

Horrifying pictures have emerged showing the Taliban gun squad who slaughtered 132 innocent children - as a new threat to kill schoolkids was revealed.

The first lesson of the day for 10-year-old Irfan Shah at Peshawar's Army Public School was social studies.

A Taliban attack on a school in Pakistan that killed 132 children has been widely condemned as un-Muslim, abhorrent, inhumane and disgusting.

The frontier city of Peshawar was once known as "the city of flowers".

New Zealand batting coach Craig McMillan put it best: "Once you score that first test hundred, you almost feel like you belong." Tom Latham belongs.

The second test duel between Pakistan and New Zealand continued into the fourth day with the visitors making early progress with three wickets for 31 before Pakistan fought back.

Younis Khan was in such command heading to lunch on the third day of the second test that the New Zealand bowlers would've had to land a good length ball on a piece of real estate the size of a coaster to confuse him.

New Zealand's test spinning ranks are into their third year of the time classification known as PV (Post-Vettori) and off-spinner Mark Craig and leg-spinner Ish Sodhi are showing signs of promise.

Chameleons, phoenixes, and in the most respectful possible way, cockroaches. Pakistan have no peer when it comes to adapting, rebuilding and surviving in international cricket.

NZ have lost the opening test of the series against Pakistan by 248 runs but it came amid a fighting final partnership of 54 between Ish Sodhi and Trent Boult.

Rob O'Neill under fire from fellow SEALs after he claimed he was the shooter who put three bullets into Osama bin Laden's head.

There is something irritatingly smug and condescending about some of the coverage of "the bravest girl in the world," writes Joshua Keating

Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teenager who survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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.