Islamabad

ISLAMABAD - Dissatisfied over the work of the special three-man fact finding committee, which was constituted to probe the hosing down of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination site, President Asif Ali Zardari has reportedly expanded the timeframe within which the committee has to complete its investigations.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Taliban's barbaric characteristics were once again witnessed after it chopped off the hands of three alleged thieves in the Orakzai Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Interior Minister Rehman Malik has contradicted media reports over arrests being made in the country in connection with the foiled New York' Times Square bombing plot.

ISLAMABAD - Confusion prevails over whether the fact finding committee formed by the Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to probe former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's assassination has submitted its report or not.

ISLAMABAD - Noting that India and Pakistan are the two major countries in the subcontinent and play an important role in international affairs, China has clarified that improving ties between the two countries is in their own and the region's interest.