Pakistan’s Taliban have threatened to avenge the death of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a United States missile strike.
The Taliban on Thursday denied claims that Maulana Fazlullah, architect of a brutal uprising in Pakistan’s Swat valley, was wounded.
Pakistani police on Wednesday pulled bodies from the rubble of a luxury hotel in north-west Peshawar after a suicide car bomb killed 16 people.
Pakistan’s military said on Tuesday they were locked in fierce street battles with Taliban fighters in the north-west of the country.