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U.S. intelligence agencies say Saad Bin Laden was killed by a missile strike in Pakistan this year.

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At least nine people are killed and more than 50 injured after a blast hit a Pakistani village east of the city of Lahore, police say.

For the second successive day, a suspected missile strike from a U.S. drone struck a militant training camp.

Pakistani police have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team, and determined that the assailants planned to take the athletes hostage, a senior official said Wednesday.

At least three other people are killed in the attack at a seminary in Lahore. A prominent Pakistani Muslim cleric who had been publicly condemning the Taliban and its reliance on suicide bomb attacks was killed Friday by a suicide bomber who detonated explosives inside the cleric's office at a seminary in Lahore.

CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Thursday the U.S. intelligence agency believes al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is hiding in Pakistan and hopes joint operations with Pakistani forces will find him.

A powerful explosion Tuesday outside a five-star hotel in the northwestern city of Peshawar killed at least 11 people and wounded 55, Pakistani officials said.

Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden purportedly issued another statement Wednesday, saying U.S. policy in Pakistan has generated "new seeds of hatred and revenge against America."

Back-to-back explosions shook two markets in Peshawar, Pakistan, on Thursday evening, killing two civilians and wounding 70 others, an official from the deputy police superintendent's office said.

The Pakistani Taliban says it wants to return to a peace deal that recently collapsed, sparking an ongoing massive military operation, a spokesman said Tuesday.