Islamabad, Mar 20 : Awami National Party leader Asfandyar Wali Khan has told to US Ambassador to Pakistan Anne W. Patterson on Friday that drone attacks on Balochistan will be counter productive for Washington.

"I have expressed my concerns to Patterson that drones attacks on Balochistan will be counterproductive for US as well as the region," Asfandyar told reporters here.

Karachi, Mar. 20 : Former Pakistan Information and Broadcasting Minister, Sherry Rehman has said that she resigned from the post due to the excessive interference of some ministers in the work of her ministry.

Rehman said that the unwarranted interference in her work by some ministers had affected her prestige.

She said it was this undue interference that convinced her to quit.

Rehman told media persons at the airport here that she didn’t wanted to destabilize the government, and that her party PPP would not back away from any reconciliation efforts.

Lahore, Mar. 20 : US officials have said that Washington plans to continue with drone attacks in the tribal regions of Pakistan.

They said that these attacks are being initiated as part of the new US strategy on Pakistan and Afghanistan.

The CIA-operated missile attacks carried by unmanned US aircrafts have attracted worldwide condemnation as both civilian and suspected militants have been killed.

White house sources claimed that under the new strategy, the Obama administration would provide enhanced counter insurgency weaponry to Pakistan military.

Karachi, Mar. 20 : Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami party has decided to file a petition against former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf over the Lal-Masjid operation, and ongoing army operation in tribal areas of the country.

JeI leader Asadullah Bhutto told The Nation that the Central Shoora of party would decide the future course of action about to file the petition against Musharraf, and the party has not finalized its strategy so far.

Islamabad, Mar. 20 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari’s proposal of forming an alliance with the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid in Punjab has been accepted by senior members of the Pakistan People’s Party.

According to sources, senior leaders of his party met with Zardari at the Presidency on Thursday, and agreed with his proposal.

The meeting came after Zardari cancelled a meeting of the party’s central executive committee and decided to meet senior party leaders, the Daily Times reports.

Karachi, Mar. 20 : There seems to be no end to the fight between Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief Ijaz Butt and the Senate’s Standing Committee on Sports, as Butt has once again challenged the committee’s authority by writing a letter to its chairman, Farooq Naek.

Butt has challenged the Senate’s authority to interfere in the working of the apex cricket body.

Butt’s stance has reportedly miffed Senate members.