Islamabad, Feb.

Islamabad, Feb. 28 : Pakistan may be banned from participating in international sports events by the International Olympic Committee (IOC), after an amendment was made in the 1962 Sports Ordinance, empowering the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB) to amend or form a model constitution for all the sports federations in the country.

The IOC may bar Pakistan if it concludes that the country's sports associations are controlled by the Government or the Pakistan Sports Board (PSB).

Islamabad - Police used tear gas and batons on the supporters of opposition leader Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan's capital Islamabad during third day of protest on Friday against a court ruling that banned him from elected office.

Hundreds of demonstrators blocked the main highway linking the capital with the adjoining city of Rawalpindi and pelted the vehicles with stones. Law enforcers fired rounds of tear gas to disperse the crowd and chased them in the nearby streets.

Islamabad, Feb.

Karachi/Islamabad, Feb. 27 : Going into denial mode once again, Pakistan on Friday squarely laid the blame for the terror attacks on Mumbai on November 26, 2008 at the doorstep of the Indian Navy and Coast Guard.

Addressing a press conference here, Pakistan's Chief of Naval Staff, Admiral Noman Bashir, categorically ruled out laying the blame for the terror strikes on the Pakistan Navy or the Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA), and added that the ten terrorists, including lone survivor Ajmal Amir Kasab, did not use the sea route from Pakistan to India to carry out their mission.

Islamabad, Feb. 27 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has claimed that he imposed governor's rule in Punjab because he was left with no other constitutional alternative after the Sharif brothers declared "war on the Presidency".

Zardari told members of Central Executive Committee (CEC) of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), that Nawaz had declared war following the Supreme Court decision to disqualify the Sharif brothers from elected office, the Daily Times reports.