PESHAWAR (March 12, 2010): At least seven people including three suspected bombers were killed and over 20 sustained injuries in a remote-controlled bomb explosion near Bara Qadeem check-post on Bara Road linking tribal area with the provincial metropolis on Thursday. The bomb went-off near Bara Qadeem check-post, a border area of Peshawar and Khyber Agency that is manned by Frontier Constabulary.

ISLAMABAD (March 12, 2010): Afghanistan does not want a proxy war between Pakistan and India or anybody else fought on its soil, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Thursday during a visit to Pakistan. Karzai said he did not want any country using Afghanistan against another. His visit comes after Pakistan has intensified efforts to fight militancy, winning US praise.

WASHINGTON (March 12, 2010): The United States reported Thursday that US-backed governments in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq had mixed results in protecting human rights in 2009. "The security situation in Afghanistan deteriorated significantly because of increased insurgent attacks, with civilians bearing the brunt of the violence," the State Department said in an annual report on human rights abuses world-wide.

ISLAMABAD (March 12, 2010): Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said that misconception between Pakistan and Afghanistan is dying rapidly, leading to a brighter future which would contribute to socio-economic development of the region. He stated this while speaking during a meeting of National Assembly's standing committee on foreign affairs, with Asfandyar Wali Khan in the chair here on Thursday.

LONDON (March 12, 2010): Former Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh has stressed on the continuation of Indo-Pak dialogues and people to people contact to foster better and friendly relations between the two nuclear armed rivals. He was speaking at a leading British think tank, the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)- here on Wednesday evening on his recently written book "Jinnah: India-Partition-Independence".

WASHINGTON (March 12, 2010): Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan is close to the core of Islamabad's national security interests and Pakistan has to be a partner in finding solutions in its western conflict-hit neighbour, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband emphasised on Wednesday while also urging Afghans to pursue a political settlement in their country.

ISLAMABAD (March 12, 2010): Condemning police brutality, the Supreme Court on Thursday ordered closure of police-operated "torture cells" and issuance of show cause notices to the concerned DIGs, where incidents of police torture on detainees had taken place with the observation that "such instances portrays the country as being operated under the law of the jungle."

ISLAMABAD (March 12, 2010): The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) on Thursday filed an additional report with the Supreme Court on the implementation of December 16, 2009 verdict on National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).

KARACHI (March 12, 2010): Chief of Aalami Majlis-e-Tahaffuz-e-Khatm-e-Nubuwat Saeed Ahmed Jalalpuri, his son and two other associates were gunned down at Post Office Society in the limits of Sachal police station here on late Thursday night.

PESHAWAR (March 11, 2010): At least 14 people were reportedly killed in a suspected US drone attack in North Waziristran Agency on Wednesday night. Sources based in Miran Shah, agency headquarters of North Wazirsitan said that US drone in the first attack fired four missile on a vehicle at Maynza khel at Tehsil Dadakhela that left six persons dead.