China's state media reported Sunday the release of seven Chinese hostages briefly kidnapped in Pakistan, but failed to mention that they were seized from an alleged brothel.
At least 42 people died and more than 150 were injured when heavy rains caused buildings in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, to collapse, according to provincial health and police officials.
Muslim students linked to a radical mosque kidnapped nine people, including three Chinese women, from an alleged brothel in Pakistan's capital on Saturday, freeing them hours later, officials said.
Hundreds of people showered rose petals over Pakistan's suspended chief justice on the latest of his cross-country processions that have rattled President Pervez Musharraf.
At least 40 people were killed and scores injured by torrential rain that uprooted trees and huge steel billboards in southern Pakistan, hospitals and emergency services said on Saturday.
NATO and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 60 insurgents near the border with Pakistan, in what was described as the largest insurgent formation crossing the region in six months, the military said Saturday.
Nine people were killed in what officials described as overnight rocket attacks from across the Afghan border in the Shawal area of the North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan.
Pakistan's cricket chief said that his country was eager to play one-day matches with arch-rivals India at neutral overseas venues, primarily in North America.
Hundreds of people showered rose petals over Pakistan's suspended chief justice Saturday on the latest of his cross-country processions that have rattled President Pervez Musharraf.
Up to 60 Taliban fighters were killed in air and ground attacks on militants near southeastern Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, the NATO-led force said.