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KARACHI - A series of political and strategic blunders by former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf had given the cause and justification to current President Asif Ali Zardari and Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani to work for his "honourable exit", according to some classified US diplomatic cables released by whistleblower website Wikileaks.

WASHINGTON - The commander of International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, General David Petraeus, has said that the United States and Pakistan were involved in secret efforts to put 'considerable pressure' on the Al-Qaeda and other extremists groups operating in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

LONDON - The WikiLeaks cables has revealed new secrets again - this time about Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who apparently can't travel anywhere without his 'voluptuous blonde' Ukranian nurse Galyna Kolotnytska.

KABUL - US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates has arrived on an unannounced visit to Afghanistan to meet with troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai.

BERLIN - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has struck back at his critics on the opinion pages of The Australian, in an article in Wednesday's online edition titled "Don't shoot (the) messenger for revealing uncomfortable truths".