Peshawar, Sept 6 : Citing “security reasons” following Taliban threats, Pakistan has reportedly stopped supplies to the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan through its western Torkham border, with effect from Friday.

A senior Pakistan official said that the move to stop supplies was taken after am increase in Taliban threats to trucks carrying the supplies. He dismissed the impression that the decision was a reaction to continued US attacks in Waziristan.

Karachi, Sept 6 : Even as Pakistan witnesses presidential election today for its 12 head of state, with PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari being the front runner, different astrologers have given varying predictions about his future.

Islamabad, Sept. 5: Pakistan is set for a return to the politics of revenge, retribution and blatant self-interest that bedeviled it in the 1990s, as the country prepares for Saturday’s presidential poll.

According to a Vancouver Sun report, Benazir Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, is a frontrunner for the job, but it cautions that a controversial Zardari, is showing a taste for partisan blood.

Manila - The Asian Development Bank (ADB) said Friday it has approved an 810-million-dollar multi-tranche financing facility to help improve Pakistan's power sector.

The Manila-based ADB said the funding, to be released in several tranches over 10 years, will support Pakistan's power sector reform programme that is estimated to cost
5.2 billion dollars.

The programme "is designed to provide a safe, reliable supply of power and to meet an estimated annual 8-per-cent rise in gross domestic product growth from
2005-2015."

It also aims to expand power coverage to rural areas, the bank added.

Islamabad, Sept 5 : PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari is all set to assume Presidency after tomorrow’s poll, but it is yet to be seen how forcefully he will act against militants in the face of Pakistani public opposition to American pressure. Nor is it clear how much influence he exerts over the still powerful military and the nation’s premier spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence, said an editorial in the New York Times.

Islamabad, Sept 5: Pakistan has reportedly offered to open intra-Kashmir trade, i. e between Srinagar and Muzaffarabad, as soon as possible and hold a meeting in Islamabad in this regard.

According to Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir extended the proposal to Indian High Commissioner Satyabrata Pal in a meeting held at the Foreign Office last evening.

“Pakistan's proposal is in pursuit of the agreement-in-principle already reached at the foreign secretary-level talks on July 21, 2008 held in New Delhi,” The News quoted the spokesman as saying.