Taleban plane crashes in Pakistan

Rescue workers say they do not expect to find any survivors from an Afghan plane which crashed across the Pakistani border.

Pakistani officials at the site say some eighty members of Aghanistan's Taleban militia were aboard, although Taleban authorities put the figure at about fifty, adding that none of them were high-ranking officials.

The plane had been carrying the fighters from their south-western headquarters in Kandahar to Herat, when it got lost in heavy fog while looking for an emergency landing strip.

Heavy fog and snow continues to hamper the rescue teams.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service