Pakistani Taliban gunmen disguises in all-enveloping burqas storm the campus of an agriculture college in Pakistan, killing at least nine people and wounding 35, police and hospital officials say.

The death toll from a suicide car bomb blast in the Afghan capital, Kabul rises by more than 10 to at least 35, according to a senior government official.

At least 46 security personnel, Taliban fighters and civilians have been killed in clashes in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials say.

The fall of Kunduz to Taliban is not only strategically significant but is also cause for deep worry for the Afghan National Unity Government.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres says three of its staff are killed when its clinic in the Afghan city of Kunduz was hit by sustained bombing.

Afghan officials say they have regained control of key areas of the northern city of Kunduz from the Taliban.

A Taliban suicide bomber has attacked a checkpoint near the entrance to the international airport in the Afghan capital Kabul, killing five people.

At least 20 people have been killed and 10 wounded in a gunfight at a wedding party in Baghlan province in northern Afghanistan

Eight of the 10 men reportedly jailed for the attempted assassination of Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai have been acquitted.