Hakimullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban leader believed to have been killed in a US drone attack earlier this year, may still be alive, Pakistani intelligence officials have said.

PESHAWAR: The mysterious and until now unknown militant organisation, the Asian Tigers, executed former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) official Khalid Khwaja near Mir Ali town in North Waziristan on Friday after holding him hostage for more than a month.

A prominent Afghan tribal leader who spoke of his fears of assassination by the Taliban has been killed near the southern city of Kandahar.

A suicide bomber has attacked a security checkpoint in the northwest of Pakistan, killing at least four policemen and wounding another 12 people.A religious leader and a woman were among those injured in Wednesday’s attack.

At least three people have been killed and 35 others injured after a cache of explosives detonated near the Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

The US military has told Al Jazeera that it is negotiating with foreign governments to take non-Afghan prisoners from its controversial prison at the Bagram airbase outside Kabul, the Afghan capital.

Omar Hassan al-Bashir, Sudan’s incumbent president, has won another term after the country’s first multi-party presidential poll in 24 years.

PESHAWAR (Online) – Construction work at the US consulate, damaged in a recent bomb blast, has got underway while a concrete and bullet-proof boundary wall is being constructed around the premises.

Taliban militants say they have shot down a NATO helicopter in the troubled western Afghanistan amid rising causalities aging the US-led foreign forces there.

A crowd of hundreds block a highway in central Afghanistan and have torched five NATO fuel tankers to protest the killing of three people by US-led forces.