Pakistan

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — Fighting between pro-Pakistan government forces and militants affiliated to Taliban warlord Baitullah Mehsud has killed at least 15 people, officials said Thursday.

Baitullah Mehsud, the Pakistani Taliban chief, was killed last week while receiving a massage on the roof of his father-in-law's house, according to reports.

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Former President Pervez Musharraf was charged Tuesday with ordering the illegal detention of judges during Pakistan's 2007 political crisis and faces arrest if he returns from exile.

Pakistan's nuclear weapon bases have been attacked by al-Qaeda and the Taliban at least three times in the last two years, it has emerged.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan — A US missile attack killed 10 militants in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday, security officials said, less than a week after a similar drone strike reportedly killed a feared Taliban chief.

Pakistan's top officials have dismissed Taliban claims that the group's leader survived a missile strike last week and said the government will publish proof of Baitullah Mehsud's death.

A close associate of Pakistan's most wanted man, Baitullah Mehsud, who was reportedly killed in a US drone attack, has told the BBC he is alive.

Pakistani intelligence officials tell ABC News that Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud was killed in a CIA drone strike that targeted a house Wednesday.

LAHORE, Pakistan — Hundreds of Pakistani Christians staged a protest Wednesday over the killing of eight of their community members by a Muslim mob, with some demonstrators smashing the windows of public buses.

A US air strike has killed a wife of the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud, delivering a message to the notorious militant commander that western and Pakistani pursuers are closing in on him.