London, Aug 22 : Bosnian police have taken a pigeon into custody for smuggling drugs into one of the country''s highest security jails.

According to Josip Pojavnik, deputy warden of Zenica prison, prison guards grew suspicious when they saw "four prisoners visibly intoxicated shortly after the pigeon landed on a prison window.”

It is believed that the drugs were stuffed into tiny bags and attached to the pigeon''s legs.

"We suspect that the pigeon carried the drugs from Tuzla, a town around 70 kilometres more than 40 miles northeast of Zenica in central Bosnia,” Telegraph quoted Pojavnik, as saying

The pigeon is behind bars while police investigates who might have loaded with drugs.

Sarajevo - The chairman of Bosnia's nationalist Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) has denied that the party gave up its founder, war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, according to a report published Thursday.

The former Bosnian Serb leader has been indicted on charges of war crimes, genocide, crimes against humanity and severe breaches of the Geneva Conventions by The Hague-based International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).

London, Aug. 1: Former Bosnian-Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has accused the United States of trying to assassinate him.

Appearing before a UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Karadzic, who is now known to his jailers as prisoner number 38, informed Dutch judge Alphons Orie that Richard Holbrooke, the former United States Assistant Secretary of State, had granted him immunity as part of a wider Bosnia peace deal agreed in 1995.

"My commitment was to withdraw even from literary life and all sorts of public life," he said.

Sarajevo - The chairman of Bosnia's tripartite state presidency Haris Silajdzic said Tuesday in Sarajevo he expects the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague to conduct a fast and efficient trial of top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

"I hope this trial will shed new light and bring new evidence in the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Silajdzic, commenting on news that the former Bosnian Serb leader was transferred early Tuesday morning to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague from Belgrade where he was arrested on July
21.

Sarajevo - The chairman of Bosnia's tripartite state presidency Haris Silajdzic said Tuesday in Sarajevo he expects the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague to conduct a fast and efficient trial of top Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

"I hope this trial will shed new light and bring new evidence in the case of Bosnia-Herzegovina," said Silajdzic, commenting on news that the former Bosnian Serb leader was transferred early Tuesday morning to the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague from Belgrade where he was arrested on July
21.

The Hague (Netherlands), July 30 : Former Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, has arrived in the Netherlands to face trial before a UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague.

Karadzic, who was arrested in Belgrade last week after 13 years on the run, is to appear before the tribunal on Thursday.

He has been indicted for crimes against humanity and genocide during the Bosnian conflict of the 1990s.

It comes hours after clashes at a rally attended by at least 10,000 supporters to protest his arrest, the BBC reported.