Islamabad - Pakistan on Tuesday decided to import 0.2 million tons of sugar to meet shortages in the domestic market, officials said.

The economic coordination committee of the cabinet approved the purchase during a meeting chaired by Advisor to Prime Minister on Finance and Revenue Shaukat Tarin, a press release said.

"The sugarcane production is expected to fall short of the envisaged target by 20 percent this year, forcing the government to allow import of sugar to meet domestic requirements," a senior government official said after attending meeting.

Islamabad- Pakistani authorities swiftly re-opened a key supply route serving NATO forces in Afghanistan Tuesday, following a rebel attack on a bridge in the north-western tribal region, an official said.

Traffic through the Khyber Pass was suspended when the 30-metre iron bridge was blown up early in the morning.

"The road has been reopened after makeshift arrangements at the blast site," a government official in the Khyber district said.

Islamabad, Feb 3 : The Pakistan Senate's Standing Committee for Sports has asked former PCB director-general Javed Miandad to appear before it on February 9.

Sources said the committee has invited the former captain and coach of the Pakistan cricket team, who has recently resigned as director-general of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), to appear at the meeting of the standing committee.

Senator Tahir Mashhadi said members of the standing committee for sports were not satisfied with the stance of PCB officials on the Miandad issue.

Islamabad, Feb 3 : Islamabad police is the top unauthorised occupiers of government accommodation in Pakistan's capital city, with its employees being in possession of 167 of the 337 government flats known to be illegally occupied.

Retired officials from the Intelligence Bureau and the Federal Investigation Agency officials are also included in the list of 377 illegal occupants.

This shows that `police power' is wielded to get what one is apparently not entitled to, not eligible for and not authorised to take hold of.

Islamabad, Feb 3 : Pakistani High Commissioner to India Shahid Malik has reached Islamabad on Tuesday morning to help in finalising the Mumbai terror attacks findings, which will be shared with India and the world this week.

He was called to Islamabad for holding important consultation with the officials of Foreign and Interior ministries in connection with the Mumbai carnage, said foreign office sources.

Islamabad, Feb. 3 : The Pakistan military has said that at least 35 militants were killed overnight in a ground and air operation against insurgents in the Khawazakhela District of the Swat Valley.

"Thirty-five militants were killed in Khawazakhela overnight," the Pakistani military said in a short statement. Just two days after a similar attack in the region, the army attacked the militant hideouts in the northwestern Swat, The News reports.