Islamabad - Pakistani authorities on Saturday recovered at least 50 bodies and dozens of unconscious people from a shipping container in Pakistan's south-western province of Balochistan, according to police.

The container, which was found parked on the outskirts of the provincial capital Quetta, was carrying 110 people, apparently illegal immigrants being transported from Afghanistan to Iran via Pakistan.

Islamabad, Apr. 4 : At least 17 persons including five children were reportedly killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in North Waziristan's Miranshah area on Saturday.

According to sources, a suicide bomber tried to crash his explosive-laden vehicle into the Pakistan Army convoy which was on its way to Miranshah from Bannu.

A Frontier Corps (FC) gunman, in an effort to prevent the military convoy from being attacked, opened fire on the attacker's vehicle, subsequently blowing it away.

Islamabad, Apr. 4 : Denouncing the whipping of a young girl by the Taliban in Swat, Pakistan's former Information Minister Sherry Rehman has submitted an adjournment motion seeking a debate in the National Assembly.

"What is happening in Swat amounts to a blatant abuse of the rights of our people by non-state actors. The state cannot and must not remain silent at this heinous act of brutal violence against women," the Daily Times quoted, Rehman, as saying.

Islamabad, Apr. 4 : The Taliban has denied that the flogging of a 17-year-girl took place in the Swat Valley.

"The act is in accordance with shariah, but the flogging did not happen in Swat," The News quoted Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesperson Muslim Khan, as saying.

Khan said the punishment was according to what is described in the shariah.

Islamabad, Apr. 4 : Pakistan's Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has taken suo motu notice of the flogging of a girl in the Swat Valley.

Chaudhry has asked the federal interior secretary, the NWFP chief secretary and the NWFP inspector general of police to appear before the court on Monday.