Islamabad, Mar 18 : After taking the British and US audiences by storm, Oscar-winning film `Slumdog Millionaire' is all set to hit the Chinese theatre.

Directed by Danny Boyle, the film has secured a coveted slot as one of 20 major foreign movies that China will import this year, reports The News

Zhang Hongyan, a publicist for Hong Kong-based Edko Film, has revelaed that the film will be released in at least 2,000 theatres across China on March 26.

Boyle will attend the movie''s premiere in Beijing a day before.

Peshawar, Mar. 18 : Lawyers' associations have expressed serious concern over TNSM chief Sufi Mohammad's warning to the Swat lower judiciary against attending courts in the Valley.

The Swat District Bar Association (SDBA) and NWFP lawyer bodies said on Tuesday that the move would create a judicial crisis in the Malakand Division, the Daily Times reports.

Islamabad, Mar. 18 : A Pakistani assistant sub inspector is on trial for declining to follow his seniors' order to thrash Long March participants in Islamabad.

Ironically, the Pakistan Government has accepted the protesters' demand to restore the sacked judiciary, but ASI Raja Arshad is still paying the price for his defiance.

Nawaz Sharif had forbidden policemen to obey the illegal orders of the government during the Long March.

Rawalpindi, Mar. 18: Pakistani intelligence reports have claimed that three suicide bombers were hiding in Rawalpindi and Islamabad respectively to attack the Long March.

Police sources told the Daily Times that the suicide squad had reached the twin cities and planned to target the general public during the March’s proceedings.

Peshawar, Mar. 18: The assembly Pakistan’s North Western Frontier Province has passed an unanimous resolution demanding that the federal government ask the US to stop drone attacks in tribal and settled areas.

Tabling the joint resolution, independent MPA from Bannu Adnan Wazir said US drones were violating Pakistan’s airspace and firing missiles in tribal and settled areas.