Islamabad, Feb 4 : Pakistan Muslim League-N chief Nawaz Sharif today said that the struggle by the international community for world peace would be of no use until the Kashmir issue is resolved.

He urged international community to play their effective role for devising a comprehensive strategy to ensure implementation of the UN resolutions on both major issues.

Sharif added that people of Pakistan and India yearn for peaceful relations and they had always been lauding and supporting the efforts of their leadership for bilateral peace.

Islamabad, Feb 4 : Pakistan Punjab province Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar had offered PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif scrapping of the case regarding his disqualification on showing flexibility over judges issue.

Shahbaz said that PML-N would not accept judges who flourished under a dictator's umbrella.

He threatened to launch a public struggle if he was disqualified, The Nation reported.

Islamabad - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday afternoon after a brief stop in Kabul where he held talks with Afghan leaders.

During his first visit since taking office in late 2006, Ban is expected to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari, an official of Pakistan's foreign ministry said.

The visit came two days after unknown gunmen kidnapped a senior UN official in north-west Pakistan.

Islamabad, Feb. 4 : The South Asian Free Media Association (Safma) has asked the Pakistan government not to mask the reality behind the Mumbai massacre and root out terrorism from its soil.

Addressing a press conference here, Safma Secretary-General Imtiaz Alam said that the Pakistan government must ensure that the terror camps operating inside its territory are dismantled.

"There should be no cover-up," The News quoted Alam, as saying.

Islamabad, Feb. 4 : The Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), the terror outfit which supposedly planned and executed the November 2008 Mumbai attack, has claimed that it has no links with the Mumbai attacks or with the Al-Qaeda.

According to the Dawn, the banned terror outfit (JuD) has released a letter saying that it has no role in the Mumbai carnage, and neither has any links with the other terror groups such as Al-Qaeda or the Taliban.

"We categorically make it clear and declare that Jamaat-ud-Dawa is neither an associate of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden nor the Taliban, hence the embargo imposed is materially in contradiction to that set out in their rules and highly unjustified under the international law of human dignity and freedom," the letter said.

Islamabad, Feb 4 : A man from Bahawalpur has been arrested by the Punjab police after it was discovered that he did not bury his dead wife for 14 months `out of love'.

According to a private TV channel report on February 3, Mushtaq Masih told the police that his wife, Naziran Bibi, had been killed by unidentified men when she was alone at home and had not buried her as he loved her a lot.

"I just thought that she was sleeping and would wake up some day," the Daily Times quoted him as saying.