Islamabad - A rap song written by the elder daughter of Pakistan's slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, in which she pours out her grief, is making waves on video sharing website YouTube and in the international media, but hardly impresses at home.

"I Would Take the Pain Away" is the chorus Bakhtawar, 18, raps in English - a language understood only by Pakistan's small elite class.

Islamabad  - Pakistan admitted on Wednesday that the sole surviving Mumbai attacker was a Pakistani national, media reports said quoting officials.

The confirmation came from Pakistani Information Minister Sherry Rehman who gave no further details, according to the private Urdu- language Geo news channel.

India has long been insisted that gunman Ajmal Amir Qasab was a Pakistani, and on Tuesday officially gave Islamabad the information that New Delhi says links the perpetrators to elements inside Pakistan.

Islamabad/ New Delhi, Jan. 7 : United States Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs, Richard Boucher, on Wednesday said those involved in the Mumbai terror attacks have links in Pakistan.

The latest statement from the US has supported India''s view, which describes the involvement of Pakistan-based terror outfits in Mumbai terror attacks.

Boucher, who engaged the Pakistani leadership on this issue at length, reiterated that whoever was involved in this, needs to be held responsible.

Islamabad, Jan. 7 : Authorities in Pakistan stepped up security across the country on Wednesday as Shia mourners began annual Ashura processions to commemorate the martyrdom of the grandson of Prophet Mohammad, Hazrat Imam Hussain.

The Dawn quoted Punjab Province Minister Tanvir Ashraf Kaira as saying: "Foolproof security arrangements have been completed to maintain law and order during Ashura. Police and other law enforcement agencies have been put on alert and army personnel have been deployed in sensitive districts."

Islamabad - Pakistan said Wednesday that information received from India about the Mumbai terrorist attacks was being "seriously examined."

"Pakistan remains fully determined in its investigations to uncover full facts pertaining to the Mumbai incident and is cognizant of the need for establishing legally tenable evidence," said Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Sadiq.

Ten gunmen killed more than 170 people in India's financial hub Mumbai in three days of mayhem beginning November 26, escalating tensions between the South Asian nuclear-armed neighbours.

Islamabad, Jan 7: The Pakistan National Assembly's Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs has asked the government to send parliamentary delegations to different countries to present Islamabad's case regarding the Mumbai terror attacks.

Members of the committee were of the view that Pakistan has not presented its case successfully at the international level, adding that the Foreign Office should be more proactive in giving a matching response to the Indian allegations.

Briefing the committee, State Minister for Foreign Affairs Malik Amad Khan said India had not shared `substantial' evidence with Pakistan.

He said non-state actors had their own ulterior motives, the Daily Times reported.