Islamabad  - A pro-Taliban cleric reiterated his pledge Friday to struggle "till death" for enforcement of Islamic sharia law across Pakistan, asking his supporters to be ready for sacrifices.

"The more sacrifices we offer, the more quickly Islam will spread," Maulana Abdul Aziz stressed in his Friday sermon at Islamabad's Red Mosque, which was brimming with people, including hundreds of students from local Islamic seminaries.

Lahore, Apr. 17 : Criticizing the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz’s decision to not join the federal government, the Pakistan People’s Party has said that the PML-N is a “provincial party.

“If the PML-N joins the federal government, they would become a national party. But the decision shows that they do not want to play their role at national level,” the Daily Times quoted, PPP Central Deputy Information Secretary Sajjad Bukhari, as saying.

PPP leader Naveed Chaudhry said the PML-N should have encouraged politics of reconciliation, adding that such decisions would bring no good to the country.

Lahore, Apr. 17 : The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said that the un-Islamic provisions in the constitution of Pakistan are not acceptable to it.

The TTP Swat chapter spokesperson Muslim Khan said the Taliban would only accept those provisions of Pakistan's constitution which were Islamic.

"The constitution itself was not completely Islamic. The Taliban does not accept any constitution other than sharia," The Daily Times quoted Khan, as saying.

Lahore, Apr. 17 : The United States has already made it clear that the financial aid to Pakistan would not go unchecked, and now strengthening its `no blank cheque' stance the Obama Administration is considering appointing a special Inspector General for Pakistan to supervise its proposed aid on the lines of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Peshawar (Pakistan), Apr. 17 : The Taliban have advanced deeper into Pakistan by engineering a class revolt that exploits profound fissures between a small group of wealthy landlords and their landless tenants, according to government officials and analysts here.

According to a New York Times report, the strategy has cleared a path to power for the Taliban in the Swat Valley, where the government has allowed Islamic law to be imposed this week.

The militants have organized peasants into armed gangs and told them to act as shock troops, the residents, government officials and analysts said.

Mardan(Pakistan) Apr. 17 : Two women were reportedly killed in separate incidents here, The Dawn reported.

According to sources, an NGO employee Mumtaz Begum was killed in a bomb blast in the office of the National Rural Support Programme (NRSP) in the Hattian village of the region.

Local Taliban leader Habibur Rehman while claiming the responsibility for the attack, accused the NGO of propagating obscenity and vulgarity.

Rehman threatened of such attacks in future also.