Islamabad, Mar. 30 : Former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that the State carried out the Lal Mosque operation.

In July 2007, around Lal Masjid area of Islamabad, a confrontation between Islamic militants and Pakistan Government broke out.

"Only 93 people were killed in the operation," The News quoted Musharraf, as saying.

Speaking to reporters before leaving for China here, he said: "Pakistan is facing a grave threat of extremism and terrorism."

Lahore, Mar. 30: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif has expressed willingness to have a working relationship with President Asif Ali Zardari, who has fulfilled most of the PML-N’s demands.

Zardari agreed to restore the deposed judiciary in Pakistan, and has now he has accepted a proposal to lift the Governor’s Rule in Punjab.

In an interview to the Wall Street Journal, Sharif said the reconciliation process allows them to work together with the government.

Peshawar, Pakistan - Pakistan's government stopped 16 months of fighting and brought relative calm to Swat, a scenic valley just an hour north of Islamabad, by cutting a truce with Taliban militants, a development it promotes as a model to deal with the Islamic insurgency in the entire region.

However, the price paid for peace may be too high and likely to discourage Western governments from making similar deals in Afghanistan.

London, Mar. 29 : Hamid Karzai and Asif Ali Zardari may have welcomed US President Barack Obama''s new strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan (now called AfPak in Washington), but experts have warned that both the South Asian countries will have to pay a fair price in exchange of the US aid.

According to Afghan President Karzai, the proposal for increased civil and military aid was "better than they were expecting."

New Delhi, Mar 29 : United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan