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Pakistan sees positive change in Afghan government's attitude

Pakistan sees positive change in Afghan government's attitudeIslamabad - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Friday that the Afghan government has changed its attitude towards Pakistan and the relations between the two governments are currently improving.

"There is a radical change in Afghan government's way of thinking. We do not see that sort of atmosphere of criticism and conflict that used to be in the past," Qureshi told reporters hours after his meeting with his Afghan counterpart Rangin Dadfar Spanta in Islamabad.

Roadside bombing kills three soldiers in north-west Pakistan

Taliban courts prove absence of Pak Government’s writ in Swat: HRCPIslamabad - A roadside bomb targeted a security convoy in north-west Pakistan Friday, leaving three soldiers dead and more than a half-dozen injured, an official said.

The remote-controlled bomb was planted near a school building in the Jalala area of the Malakand district in the North-West Frontier Province.

Pakistan may prosecute militants involved in Mumbai attack

PakistanIslamabad , Jan. 30 : A Pakistani official has told CBS News on condition on anonymity that it is likely that some of the militants detained in Pakistan in connection with the NOvember 2008 terror attack on Mumbai, "will be prosecuted on charges that have yet to be spelled out."

He said that Pakistani investigators have completed their probe into the alleged links between some of the 124 militants detained in the country and the Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 2008.

Western diplomats responding to the news, said a prosecution of this kind would be the first ever undertaken by Pakistan.

Pakistan arrests nine terrorism suspects

Pakistan arrests nine terrorism suspectsIslamabad  - Pakistani police captured nine people they accused of being involved in a string of bombings, including last year's suicide attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, for which al-Qaeda claimed responsibility, media reports said Friday.

Rawalpindi police chief Rao Muhammad Iqbal announced the arrests and said the men had confessed they were involved in at least five suicide attacks carried out in the capital city and its neighbouring garrison town of Rawalpindi.

Pakistan claims arrests of 3 alleged terrorists trained in India

Pakistan MapIslamabad - A senior Pakistani police officer on Thursday announced the arrest of three people he said were "trained and pampered" by the Indian intelligence agency for carrying out terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

The Pakistani nationals had planned to target government buildings and important personalities, including religious figures, city police chief Pervez Rathore told reporters in Lahore, the capital of the eastern province of Punjab.

Five civilians killed in US drone attacks: Report

US drone attacksIslamabad, Jan. 29 : Five persons, who were killed in the January 23 US drone attacks in South Waziristan of Pakistan, were innocent civilians, The News reports.

According to well placed sources, the US missile attacks carried out in the Gangai Khel area in South Waziristan on January 23, killed five tribesmen namely Malik Din Faraz, Sher Ghulam, Hamdullah, Habib Noor and Lohi Khan.

The US led predator attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan is targeted at the Al-Qaeda terrorists in the region, but Pakistani authorities have claimed that the drones are affecting innocent people more.

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