London, Apr. 14 : Pakistan may not accept UK’s decision to deport 12 Pakistani students, who were arrested on alleged charges of being involved in the Manchester terror plot.

Pakistan High Commission sources have said that Pakistan would like first to be informed on what charges these Pakistanis were arrested, the Dawn reports.

Before reaching on any decision, Islamabad would like to have consular access to these students, they added.

Kabul, Apr. 14 : The Taliban has publicly executed a young unmarried couple in the southwestern province of Nimroz.

Confirming the incident, provincial governor Ghulam Dastageer Azad said couple was shot dead by extremists in front of a mosque after they were caught eloping.

“An unmarried young boy and an unmarried girl who loved each other and wanted to get married eloped because their families would not approve the marriage,” The News quoted Azad, as saying.

Islamabad, Apr. 14 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has assured a judicial investigation into the killing of the three Baloch leaders that caused rampant riots in Balochistan.

“The government will leave no stone unturned to expose the culprits involved in the murder of the Baloch leaders,” The Nation quoted Zardari, as saying.

Zardari, along with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani interacted with PPP parliamentarians from NWFP at Monday at Aiwan-e-Sadr.

Islamabad - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari has approved a regulation to enforce Islamic sharia law in the troubled Swat region, in the hopes of achieving peace with Taliban militants, state media said Tuesday. Zardari signed the controversial document late Monday after the country's lower house of the parliament unanimously adopted a resolution urging him to approve the law for the Malakand Agency comprising eight districts, including Swat.

Islamabad, Apr. 14 : Qazi courts have started functioning with full authority following the National Assembly’s nod to implement the sharia law in the Malakand division, The News reports.

The sharia courts were already functioning in Barrikot, Kabal, Matta, Khawazakhel, Bahrain and Babuzai tehsils of Swat from March with limited authority, but after the approval of Nizam-e-Adl regulation they now have full authority to decide over different matters.

Islamabad, Apr. 14 : The intention behind the United States providing preconditioned financial aid to Pakistan is that it wants to establish master-slave relations with the country, the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has said.

PTI Spokesperson Dr. Shireen Mazari said her party considered the proposed bill with conditionalities unacceptable, and it should be totally rejected.