Islamabad, Mar 2 : President Asif Ali Zardari is considering various options to seek a remedy to the Sharif brothers’ disqualification issue, even through an act of Parliament.

Zardai held consultations with inner circles of the PPP to find out ways to resolve the stand; The Nation quoted sources, as saying.

Sources privy to these developments said Zardari is inclined to engage coalition partners, particularly the ANP and JUI (F) to mediate between the PPP and the PML-N.

Lahore, Mar 2 : PML-N president and former Chief Minister of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Shahbaz Sharif, has said that Zardari tried to bury democracy alive in its infancy and would not escape from its dire consequences.

Speaking at the Hameed Nizami Day seminar on Sunday, he called for making the March 12 lawyers rally a success.

Shahbaz said that though “I am not a saint, but know that the soul of Shaheed Benazir Bhutto will be with us in the long march and sit-in to realise the dream vis-a-vis of restoration of the deposed judges and independence of judiciary in the country.”

Islamabad, Mar 2: Body tattoos are increasingly becoming popular in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The emergence of tattoo culture has brought with it several new artists who have technical and fine arts training, leading to an improvement in the quality of tattoos.

“In modern culture, it is a fashion and because I am an artist, I want to promote this art in one way or the other that is why I get tattooed here,” the Daily Times quoted Wasim Elahi as saying.

Peshawar, Mar 2: Maulana Sufi Muhammad, the chief of a banned group who is instrumental in propagating peace in troubled Swat Valley, has asked the government to set up Islamic courts in Malakand, a division in northwestern Pakistan by March 15.

Speaking at a news conference in Mingora on Sunday, the main city in the Malakand division, Muhammad urged the government and Taliban fighters to free each other's prisoners by March 15.

Lahore, Mar 2 : The kidnappers of United Nations' official John Solecki have set a four-day deadline for the Pakistan Government to meet their demands.

The Balochistan Liberation United Front, the group that claimed responsibility for the abduction, have sent a letter to a news agency in Quetta warning that Solecki would be killed if their demands are not met.

"If our demands are not met, then we will kill him, and state agencies will be responsible for it," the group said in the letter.

Lahore, Mar 2 : US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Admiral Michael Mullen and Pakistani Army Chief General Ashfaq Kayani have forged "the most important relationship between both countries" through nine meetings, according to Newsweek.

Initially, the two officials differed over strategies on fighting the Taliban, the article said: "Mullen suggested ways Pakistan could help in the war on terror; Kayani disputed even the use of the term. Mullen has pressed Kayani to worry less about India and more about al Qaeda; Kayani counters with pleas for promised military gear."

But the magazine cites two important meetings as the turning point in the ties between both top military officials, the Daily Times reports.