Lahore, Dec. 7: Suggesting that there is enough evidence of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officers involvement in the planning and execution of last week''s terror attacks in Mumbai, Arizona Senator and Republican presidential candidate in 2008 John McCain has warned that if Pakistan does not act fast to arrest them, India will conduct air strikes on select targets in Pakistan.

New York, Dec. 7 : For any lasting peace, India and Pakistan would have to settle their dispute over Kashmir, says a New York Times editorial, adding that Pakistan must come to terms with the fact, that it had no option but to root out the terrorist network from its soil.

"The leaders of Pakistan''s military and intelligence services must finally realize that the extremists pose a clear and present threat to their own country''s survival," it adds.

Though Pakistan has fiercely denied any role in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the NYT says that any act of terrorism is horrifying, and the potential aftermath even more so.

Rawalpindi, Dec. 7 : A U. S. bipartisan commission has warned that the next attacks on America might originate from Pakistan''s volatile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), adding that there is an urgent need for Washington to secure Pakistan''s biological and nuclear weapons.

The report, which was due to be presented to U. S. President Bush on Wednesday, says: "Indeed, many government officials and outside experts believe that the next terrorist attack against the US is likely to originate from within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan."

Srinagar, Dec 7 : Fourth phase of the seven phased elections is going on in Jammu and Kashmir today.

18 constituencies where the votes are being polled include Udhampur, Reasi, Baramullah and Budgam.

Polling of votes started at eight in the morning and will close at four in the afternoon. Tight security arrangements have been made at all polling stations. In Gool Arnas constituency of Reasi, 109 polling stations have been set up for 50,000 electorate.

Being the militancy prone area 77 polling stations have been declared hyper sensitive, 23 sensitive leaving only 9 stations normal. An impressive arrangement of security has been made for peaceful conduct of poll.

New Delhi, Dec 7 : In the aftermath of the commando attack on Mumbai -- I refuse to treat it as a terror attack-- a war or words has been unleashed among those who should all have in the first instance protected Mumbai. The whole thing is unseemly. The media too has been dragged into the controversy; next time something similar happens, they want to arm themselves to gag the media?

A nation that does not remember history is bound to suffer. In its heyday, the Mughal Empire, particularly during the reign of Akbar, Jehangir and Shah Jehan, was the richest in the world. The whole world set out to find where India was. That is how so many countries; including the United States were discovered.

Chilyari/Samba Sector/Londi/Hiranagar, Dec 7: Farmers of Kathua district that shares borders with Pakistan said they face a bleak future after relations soured between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes.

Although both countries have denied reports about mobilization of troops on their borders, residents of the border areas say that hostilities between the two neighbours cast a shadow on their lives.

Farmers in the region said they feared they would have to abandon their crops if hostilities flared up.