Fighting between soldiers and Taliban militants over a
strategic mountaintop in northwestern Pakistan has killed
more than 60 people, a government official says.
Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal took three late wickets to
thrust his team back into contention at the close of the
second day of the second test against England on Thursday.
England's Stuart Broad and Graeme Swann were the scourge of
Pakistan as they picked up six wickets to reduce the hosts to
256 for seven on the first day of the second test on
Wednesday.
Pakistan took full advantage of another brittle England
batting performance to crush the world's top-ranked test team
by 10 wickets and win the first test inside three days in
Dubai.
Pakistan's Saeed Ajmal flummoxed England's batsmen with his
off-spin for a career best haul of seven for 55 to dismiss
the visitors for 192 on the first day of the opening test in
Dubai.
The Pakistan spinners got in on the act after pace duo Umar
Gul and Junaid Khan ripped through the Sri Lankan top order
to bundle out the tourists for 239 in their first innings on
day one of the second test in Dubai.
Taufeeq Umar compiled his sixth test century to put Pakistan
in complete control after the second day of the first test
against Sri Lanka in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday.
A woman and a teenage girl wearing a suicide vest have
attacked Pakistani police guarding the scene of an earlier
explosion in the northwest, twin strikes that killed five
people and broke a relative lull in militant violence in the
country.
The Obama administration's decision to suspend $US800 million
in aid to the Pakistan's military signals a tougher US line
with a critical but sometimes unreliable partner in the fight
against terrorism.
