BBC News with Nick Kelly

A passenger plane has crashed in Pakistan, close to the capital Islamabad, killing all 127 people on board. It was attempting to land in a thunderstorm. Reporting from Islamabad, here's Aleem Maqbool.

Pakistani officials say the plane was minutes away from landing at Islamabad's airport when it came down in a violent thunderstorm. It crashed around 10km from the

runway

, and eyewitnesses talked of it bursting into flames on impact though Pakistan's interior minister says there's a possibility there was a fire on board in mid-flight. There are reports of damage to residential buildings though

mercifully

the crash site appears to have been sparsely populated. The flight was operated by Bhoja Air, a small newly reopened commercial domestic airline.

South Sudan has ordered its troops to

pull out of

the disputed border region of Heglig, which it seized last week from Sudan, prompting fears of a return to full-scale war. The South has dismissed

assertions

by the Sudanese government in Khartoum that its soldiers had been forced out. James Copnall is in Khartoum.

Cheering crowds took to the streets in several towns in Sudan after the country's defence minister announced Heglig was back in Sudanese hands. He said the area had been won back by the Sudanese armed forces and their enemies had suffered heavy losses. Juba still considers Heglig, or Panthou as it's called in South Sudan, belongs to it and wants the region's future decided by international