Islamabad, Sep 11 : Pakistan’s civilian and military leaders don’t want to fight the war on terror as the United States want them to fight.

The new Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari will not likely be able to solve the problems in near future, so the next US President will inherit the challenge of persuading the Pakistani leadership that it needs to continue prosecuting an unpopular, but necessary, war, The International Herald Tribune reported.

Stockholm  - Swedish public broadcaster SVT screened footage Thursday of US Republican Party presidential candidate John McCain leaving North Vietnam after his release from a prisoner-of-war camp.

Swedish writer Erik Eriksson, who covered the Vietnam War as a freelance and for SVT, made the discovery when researching a book on his wartime experience and compiling a 30-minute DVD that would be sold with the book.

Washington  - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is to visit US President George W Bush September 25, the White House said Thursday.

The announcement came as the Bush administration prepared to submit the nuclear cooperation deal with India for congressional approval.

In a statement announcing Singh's visit, Bush said he was "pleased" to give formal approval to the US-India Agreement for Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation and "looked forward" to working with Congress to ensure passage.

Washington, Sep 11 : US President George W Bush has invited Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Washington on September 25.

Sources have revealed that Bush hopes to get the nuclear deal through Congress by the time Manmohan Singh visits America and will then go on to sign the deal.

Washington/New York  - The seventh commemoration of the 2001 terrorist attacks on Washington and New York began Thursday morning with a nationwide solemn moment of silence at 8:46 am, the time that one of four hijacked passenger planes smashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York.

Family members of the more than 2,500 who died in New York gathered outside the site of Ground Zero, where the towers once stood, and prepared to descend into what is now a construction site.

Children of the dead and other relatives started reading the names of the victims.