Islamabad  - Pakistani police have detained around 50 people in connection with the deadly assault on a police training centre which left at least seven recruits and four militants dead, a senior official said Tuesday.

Khalid Farooq, police chief of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province, told reporters at the funeral of the slain law enforcers that officials were interrogating the suspects, but gave no details.

Wagah border (Punjab)/ New Delhi, Mar 31: Consequent to the terrorist strike at the Police Academy in Lahore, the Border Security Force (BSF) has beefed up security along the Wagah border in Punjab.

Following the attack, senior BSF officials including Inspector General (Frontier) Himmat Singh visited the border posts to take a stock of the situation and held meetings with allied border security agencies including the customs and excise officers.

Peshawar, Mar. 31: Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has claimed responsibility for Monday's terror strike on the Lahore police training academy, The News reported.

"Yes, we have carried out this attack. I will give details later," Mehsud told news agencies over telephone.

Earlier, addressing a press conference just after the commando operation in Manawan was finished, Interior Advisor Rehman Malik had pointed out towards Mehsud's involvement in the attack.

Islamabad, Mar. 31 : Echoing US Special Envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Hoolbroke's fears, the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Inspector General (IG) of Police, Malik Navid has said that the Taliban and Al Qaeda are planning to stage terrorist strikes similar to the 9/11 attacks in the US and Europe.

Addressing a briefing on the law and order situation in NWFP, Malik admitted that the Taliban is dangerously inching closer towards Southern Punjab with an aim to take the country's financial city, Karachi, under their grip.

Islamabad  - Pakistan's historic eastern city of Lahore has long been known as the country's cultural capital, with dozens of theatres, film studios, fashion houses, historical sites and exotic food.

But it is now being turned into a new battleground by Islamic militants who have already gained control over large areas in the north-western regions of the nuclear-armed Islamic state.

Islamabad - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari Monday lifted a more than one-month-long federal rule in eastern province Punjab in a bid to further ease political tensions that threatened the stability of the nuclear-armed country early this month.

The official notification for the undoing of the federal rule, known locally as governor rule, was issued by the government with the approval of President Asif Ali Zardari.