US spy planes targeted a vehicle near the Afghan border in Pakistan's troubled tribal region, killing five suspected militants and injuring three others, officials said on Monday.

The death toll from Pakistani air strikes on militant hideouts in a northwestern tribal area on Wednesday rose to 55, with reports of some civilian deaths, security officials said.

At least 38 people, including a former parliamentarian, were killed and nearly 50 others injured in a suicide attack on a mosque and two bombings across northwest Pakistan on Monday, marking a spurt in militant violence after a relative lull over the past few weeks.

Pakistan issued new flood warnings on Tuesday as more rains fell and rising water levels threatened to overwhelm one of the country's biggest dams.

The death toll in three days of flooding in Pakistan reached at least 267 on Friday, rescue and government officials said, as rains bloated rivers, submerged villages, and triggered landslides.

Rivers burst their banks during monsoon rains, washing away streets, battering a dam and killing at least 60 people in most severe floods in decades in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Thursday.

Peshawar has officially been claimed the “Oldest Living City’’ in South Asia by the Archaeology Department.

Taliban militants have handed over the bodies of six Pakistani soldiers killed in an attack near the Afghan border but the hunt is still on for 34 who remain missing, officials said on Friday.

A Pakistani pupil has been expelled from his private school for getting married on the sly because teachers believe marital relations are inappropriate playground talk.

Continuing its crackdown on Taliban militants in the volatile tribal region close to Afghanistan, the Pakistan Army used ground and air attacks killing 50 militants, as the rebels struck back wiping o