Lahore, Mar. 25 : UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband has said that Pakistan's history has proven that maintaining links with terrorists in the hope that they could be used as an instrument was a total failure.

In an interview with a British TV station, Miliband urged Pakistani leaders to unite against the common enemy of terrorism.

He also said that Pakistan must direct its attention to the threat posed by domestic terrorism, the Daily Times reports.

Washington, Mar. 25: In quite a departure from his first press conference on February 9, President Barack Obama avoided taking questions from the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal or USA Today, and according to experts, this may not sit well with the already insecure newspaper industry.

Obama opened things up to a wider variety of outlets, including Spanish-language television, a military news outlet, and black-oriented media. It''s another example of the White House going over the typical Washington press corps "filter."

Karachi, Mar. 25 : Former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad believes that China has the ability to compete with the best teams of the world on the cricket field.

Miandad, who returned from Beijing after a six day visit as Pakistan''''s cricket ambassador to China, expressed hope that China would become a cricket playing nation in near future.

"They definitely have potential, the interest and resources to become a respected cricket playing nation," The News qouted Miandad, as saying.

Singapore - A Singapore court on Wednesday charged a property agent with seriously hurting the eye of his Indonesian maid and 10 other counts of maid abuse, a news report said.

Lim Beng Tai, 38, is charged with several beatings of the maid, identified as Ms Jasmiati, 25, the online edition of Straits Times newspaper reported.

Lim's wife, Connie Ng Lay Har, also 38, is accused of punching the maid once and slamming the victim's right hand in a car.

Washington, Mar. 25: Republican Senator John McCain''s daughter, Meghan has revealed that she is a great fan of President Barack Obama and his policies.

She told CNN''s "Larry King Live" Tuesday night, that her support was for her father''s campaign opponent, President Obama.

"He''s our president and when the election was over and when President Obama won, all negative feelings were gone," McCain said on the CNN show. "I support the president."

Islamabad, Mar. 25 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari's upcoming address to a joint session of the parliament would decide his party's future relations with the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz.

The PML-N is waiting for the upcoming presidential address to parliament before making a decision on the future of its relations with the ruling Pakistan People's Party.