Lahore, Mar. 21 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will meet the Pakistan Muslim League chief Nawaz Sharif on Sunday to discuss ways to resolve the current political crisis in the country's Punjab province.

Gilani has taken all matters regarding reconciliation with the PML-N leadership in Punjab into his hands, asking the PPP team to immediately abort their `Get Punjab Plan'.

He summoned three Federal Ministers on Friday to get first hand report of numbers game in Punjab, The Nation reports.

Islamabad, Mar. 21 : Pakistan has said that it is ready to resolve the water sharing issue with India through bilateral talks.

Indus Water Commission head Jamaat Ali Shah said Islamabad wants to hold talks with New Delhi over the issue in accordance with the 1960 Indus Water Treaty.

Lahore, Mar. 21: The 2011 cricket World Cup is scheduled to be held in the four sub-continent countries India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh but with several teams expressing their worry over the security scenario in Pakistan it is now been speculated that Pakistan might not get to host any matches of the event, in such eventuality the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) would lose around 12 million dollars.

Lahore, Mar. 21: While Pakistan appealed to the international cricket fraternity not to abandon it in the wake of the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, it has been learnt that it was the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) insistence for more security during the Bangladesh tour that led to it being cancelled.

“The truth is there were some apprehensions about playing in Bangladesh on our side as well and we had asked for additional security measures,” The Daily Times quoted a top PCB official, as saying.

New York, Mar. 21: Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani’s constant touch with the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen ensured that the ‘Long March’ crisis in the country did not go out of control.

According to a Wall Street Journal report, the ties between General Kayani and Admiral Mullen will now be the mainstay of the relationship between Washington and Islamabad as it has certainly helped stabilize Pakistan for the time being.

Amritsar, Mar. 20: Radio Pakistan appears determined to continue to propagate a policy of `divide and rule’ in India. In its recent Punjabi Darbar program, it urged both Muslims and Sikhs to unite against Hindus, by calling the latter as the `enemy’.

Hindu and Sikh clerics, however, condemned this sort of propaganda wholeheartedly.