Islamabad, Mar. 12 : The Pakistan Interior Ministry has expressed fears of a possible attack on PML-N leaders Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif.

According to The News, the Sharif brothers have been asked to discontinue their spate of public rallies, as they could be targeted during such events.

According to sources the ministry has communicated to the Sharif brothers about the threat in a letter.

Islamabad  - Police detained dozens of protesters in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi Thursday as hundreds of lawyers and opposition political workers launched a four-day cross-country march for the reinstatement of the country's top judge.

Law-enforcement officers in riot gear bundled protesters into waiting vans after baton-charging a crowd of anti-government activists outside the provincial High Court building in Karachi.

Islamanbad, Mar. 12 : Perturbed by the turn of events in Pakistan, the United States has got into the act to determine as to what is actually happening in the country.

US's special envoy to Pakistan-Afghanistan, Richard Holbrooke, on Thursday, called Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to express concern over the situation of Pakistan.

US Ambassador to Pakistan, Anne Peterson met former Prime Minister and PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif to dicusss the ongoing political chaos.

Islamabad - A senior minister in Pakistan's troubled North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) on Wednesday narrowly escaped a gun and bomb attack that left six people, including the attackers, dead, a police official said.

Bashir Ahmad Balour was visiting the Namak Mandy area in provincial capital Peshawar, when his bodyguards saw two armed men approaching the minister.

The police opened fire on the suspects, who fled and forced their way into a nearby house.

Islamabad - Pakistani police on Wednesday arrested hundreds of opposition activists and anti-government lawyers to forestall this week's planned cross-country protest march, which could send the year-old government into a tailspin, officials said.

Most of the arrests were made in the eastern province of Punjab, the power centre of popular opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif.

The arrests came after an overnight ban on public gatherings in Punjab and were followed by a similar ban in the southern Sindh province.

Islamabad, Mar. 11 : Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Asfaq Parvez Kayani, met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday morning and reviewed the deteriorating law and order situation in the country on the eve of the proposed "Long March" from Karachi to Islamabad by the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
(PML-N).