Islamabad, Mar. 31 : The Punjab administration had specific information that terrorists could target police training and recruitment centers in the province, yet the militants succeeded in their plan which was evident from Monday’s strike on the Manawan police training academy.

The strike has once again proved that there were serious security lapses on part of the administration, as was the case when the Sri Lankan cricket team was targeted on March 3.

According to sources, the Lahore’s Military Corps headquarters had forewarned of a terrorist attack on police buildings and establishments in the province.

Lahore, Mar. 31 : Analysts in Pakistan and in other parts of the world are divided over how much enthusiasm the Pakistan Army has for tackling militant groups, and there is a consensus emerging that it is the police in the country that has proved to be the most aggressive of the security forces, and therefore needs the most Western backing.

"The police are the weakest link. They are both the most vulnerable and the most essential to the state if there is to be an effective crackdown" on jihadi groups, says Samina Ahmed, a Pakistan-based analyst with the International Crisis Group (ICG).

Islamabad - Pakistan's Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended its ban on opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz Sharif from holding public office.

The reprieve came a day after President Asif Ali Zardari ended federal rule in the eastern province of Punjab, which was ruled by the Nawaz faction of the Pakistan Muslim League party, with Shahbaz as chief minister.

Shahbaz had to leave his office following the ban.

Islamabad, Mar. 31: Following the intense heat that the Pakistan’s investigative agency, Inter State Services
(ISI) has come under from the US as well as Britain for its alleged links with banned terror outfits, Pak Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is expected to make it clear to the United States that the ISI is a national security agency working to protect country’s national interests when a high-level US delegation arrives here to discuss the revamped US policy for Afghanistan-Pakistan next week.

Peshawar, Mar. 31 : The International Committee of the Red Cross has said that the plight of people in Pakistan and Afghanistan will continue to worsen in the coming months.

The armed conflict in Afghanistan was intensifying and affecting more areas of the country, while fighting and a volatile security situation is causing severe hardship to civilians in the northwest of Pakistan.