Islamabad, Mar 24 : Within six months of his resignation and being declared one of the most hated men in Pakistan, former President Pervez Musharraf spent Pakistan Day participating in a bridge tournament at the Islamabad Club, in a setting of almost no special security.

Oblivious of the tensions and insecurity that his 10-year term of power have unleashed on the rest of the nation, the former dictator was relaxed, enjoying the company of his friends, playing cards and exchanging jokes.

Lahore, Mar 24 : Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has disclosed that traces of foreign powers' involvement were found in the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team, and that there was much progress in the probe being conducted in this regard.

According to him, "saying something else on this issue will be premature. Let the probe be completed."

London, Mar. 24: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) appears primarily to exist to fight India and to maintain a constant link between its political and military wings.

It spends most of its time monitoring whom to recruit from within and outside Pakistan for intelligence-related activity.

New York, Mar 24: Journalists are no more safe in Pakistan as they are killed regularly, having no freedom to work and the 2009 Global Impunity Index of the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) recent survey ranks Pakistan 10th among 14 countries.

Other countries in the region — India, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Nepal and Bangladesh — also figure on the index, a list of countries where journalists are killed regularly and governments fail to solve the crimes.

Lahore, Mar 24: The use of stem cells for research was allowed in Islam, but not for human cloning, said Dr. Israr Ahmed, an internationally recognised Pakistani religious scholar and founder of Tanzeem-e-Islami Quran Academy.

He was speaking on the issue at a seminar organised by the Punjab University Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology (CEMB) on “Ethical Issues Related to Work on Stem Cells”.

Islamabad  - A policeman was killed and several people were injured on Monday in a suicide bombing outside an office of the police's intelligence wing in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, security officials said.

The bomber blew himself up when a police guard stopped him at the gate of the police's special branch, located in the heart of the city, just a few hundred yards away from the headquarters of the premier military Inter-Service Intelligence agency.