Karachi, Mar. 28: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, while welcoming the US’ revamped Afghan strategy has said that the Obama Administration had accepted its stand.

Talking to media persons on the sidelines of an award function here, Gilani said the new strategy confirms that the United States has accepted its stance that only a hand full of people are involved in terror activities, and that the whole country was not under the influence of such insurgents.

Islamabad  - Dozens of Taliban militants attacked a NATO transit terminal in north-western Pakistan Saturday with rockets, damaging shipping containers carrying supplies for Western troops in Afghanistan, a police official said.

The attack took place at the Farhad terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of North-West Frontier Province.

"The containers caught fire after the attackers fired several rocket-propelled grenades at the terminal," said local police official Fazal Mohammad Khan.

Karachi, Mar. 28: Pakistan pacers Shoaib Akhtar and Umar Gul, who are expecting a call for national duty ahead of the one-day series against Australia, will have to go through an extensive fitness test to prove their match-fitness.

According to sources, the Pakistan team management is planning to organize a fitness test before the squad for the UAE series is announced.

The selectors and the team management have decided to include only those players in the team who prove their

Islamabad - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Friday welcomed the initiatives announced by his US counterpart Barack Obama to strengthen democracy and "pass a bill for 1.5 billion dollars aid to Pakistan every year."

"Pakistan has always held the Pak-US relations in high esteem and his announcements during the speech on a new strategy on Afghanistan and Pakistan will further cement these ties," Zardari said in a statement, according to the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan.

Islamabad, Mar. 27 (ANI): Pakistan based Talibani leaders have decided to join hands with their Afghan counterparts and jointly retaliate against the US led allied forces in the region, following the Obama Administration's decision to send in 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan to facilitate the `war on terror'.

Both factions of the insurgent group came together following an appeal by the Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Muhammad Omar.

Islamabad, Mar. 27 : At least 70 persons have been reportedly killed and 100 other injured when a suicide bomber blew himself at a mosque in Jamrud on Friday.

According to The News, the attacker entered the mosque which was crowded with over three hundred people offering Friday prayers, and blew himself killing scores of people on the spot.

"It appears to be a suicide attack in which over 70 worshippers could have been killed and over 100 others wounded," Khyber Agency Political Agent Tariq Hayat Khan said.