Lahore, Mar. 11 : People across Pakistan are stocking up on essential items, including food in anticipation of the political crisis in the country taking a turn for the worse in the coming days.

In Lahore, a large banner, offering facilities to freeze home-cooked food and store it for months, or even years, flutters across a busy street.

Azizuddin Ahmed, 50, an electrician, was quoted by the website irinnews. org as saying: "Frankly, everyone thinks things will get very bad soon and we should stock up on food items. If that happens, and there are shortages and violence, it may not be a bad idea to do what they suggest and freeze some cooked food."

Islamabad, Mar. 11 : Pakistan's Chief of Army Staff, General Asfaq Parvez Kayani, met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Wednesday morning and reviewed the deteriorating law and order situation in the country on the eve of the proposed "Long March" from Karachi to Islamabad by the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
(PML-N).

Islamabad, Mar. 11 : Fears of return of military rule or a change of regime in Pakistan gained momentum on Wednesday after a report in Fox News indicated a source as telling it that President Asif Ali Zardari, who is in Tehran for a regional economic conference and is expected to proceed to his former home in exile Dubai, may not return to Pakistan in the short term if tensions continue to rise or perhaps in the longer term if the political situation slides into chaos.

Lahore, Mar. 11 : Sacked Punjab Chief Minister and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) president Shahbaz Sharif has urged security personnel and officials to defy all unconstitutional orders of the PPP- led coalition government.

Talking to media persons at his Raiwind residence, Sharif said the proposed lawyers protest march would receive an overwhelming response from the people of Pakistan.

He challenged the Zardari administration to stop people from protesting against the government’s unlawful methods and policies.

New Delhi: At a recent meet in New Delhi, Gary Kasparov the famous Russian chess grandmaster, posed a question to the former President of Pakistan Gen. Pervez Musharraf, that for terrorism to grow in a big way in Pakistan, it needs wherewithal-resources to buy weapons, sustain itself and then attack.

Kasparov likened it to a tree. You can not control a nasty tree by only cutting its branches or trimming it—you need to cut the source of water that sustains it, and asked why Pakistan or Musharraf had failed to stop that supply of water to the tree of terrorism.

London, Mar. 11 : Britain has expressed concern over the present political pandemonium in Pakistan.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband during a meeting with Member of Parliamentary Assembly (MPA) Mohammad Sarwar said that Britain is ready to help Islamabad to find a solution on the issue of restoring sacked Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry.

Miliband also said that other European countries are ready to help Pakistan and are not against the restoration of Justice Chaudhry.