Islamabad, Dec. 31 : Many Pakistanis still view India as their real enemy and are far less concerned about the spread of radical Islam in their midst, the Washington Post reports.

According to the paper, the country''s powerful army also appears to be more comfortable facing its conventional cross-border adversary to the east than waging a messy counter-insurgency campaign against fellow Muslims and Pakistanis on its own territory.

Islamabad - The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Pakistan's own probe had linked militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) with 10 fighters involved in last month's Mumbai attacks, a report which Islamabad has declined to comment on.

A Pakistani security official told the WSJ that at least one top LeT commander, Zarar Shah, has admitted a role in the Mumbai attack during interrogation.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Shah's admission is backed up by US intercepts of a phone call between Shah and one of the attackers at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, one of the sites of terrorist strikes that left more than 170 people dead in India's financial hub.

Islamabad, Dec 31 : A wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami organisation, Shabab-e-Milli, has issued threats to the provincial administration and owners of five star hotels and restaurants in Karachi over New Year celebrations.

The group has warned of dire consequences if they allowed "vulgar" celebrations during the New Year.

"We have requested the owners of hotels, motels and restaurants to refrain from Kharafaat (vulgar activities) during the holy month of Muharram, otherwise the Shabab-e-Milli's baton force will not hesitate in taking necessary steps," the Daily Times quoted Milli President Muhammad Yousaf Munir as saying at a press conference held in Idara Noor-e-Haq.

Islamabad, December 31: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has been named among year 2008's `Top Ten Prominent Foreign Figures' by a Chinese newspaper.

The paper called Guangming Daily has even profiled Zardari, and published details of his education and political career.

"Consensus says that Zardari's time commenced while Musharraf's time concluded," the Daily Times quoted the Chinese-language paper as noting.

Islamabad, Dec. 30 : The Pakistan government has told a visiting Chinese delegation that it has the right to defend its sovereignty and territorial integrity in case of aggression from the enemy.

The Chinese Vice Minister for Foreign Affairs, He Yafie, held meetings with Pakistani President Asif Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and the Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, besides other government officials in Islamabad on Monday.

President Zardari told Yafie that Pakistan had taken positive steps after the Mumbai attacks, but India failed in providing ''support'' and instead made false allegations against it.

Islamabad, Dec. 30 : The two-day SAARC business leaders conference scheduled to begin here has been deferred in the raging Pak-India tension.

Saarc Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Executive Member, Zubair Ahmad Malik told Geo News here that the two-day Saarc business leaders conference slated February 21 here has been put off, as the Indian delegation's visit to Pakistan didn't seem possible due to the highly charged posture between the two countries.