Islamabad, Dec. 22 : To save VVIPs from any risk of nuclear, biological or chemical attack and any other severe catastrophe, the Pakistan Government is working on a proposal to build a disaster proof facility for them.

There is a proposal of Rs. eight billion facility to be constructed in the Islamabad with technical assistance from foreign experts including from Japan. This complex would withstand accidents of unprecedented nature, the Daily Times reported.

Sources said, the proposed National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) complex would house the shelter and a National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC).

Islamabad, Dec 22: Pakistan's Interior Adviser Rehman Malik has promised that the government will arrest former president Pervez Musharraf for killing Baloch chieftain Nawab Akbar Bugti.

Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Talal Bugti after meeting President Asif Ali Zardari said on Sunday that the government would frame a case against Musharraf for killing both Akbar Bugti and Benazir Bhutto.

The former president is also responsible for the killings during the Lal Masjid operation and the May 12 riots in Karachi, he added.

Talal, who is Akbar Bugti's son, said his party had lodged an FIR with the police against Musharraf for killing his father, but added that a case had not been registered so far.

Islamabad, Dec. 22: Several arms and ammunitions seized from the Lal Masjid during the `Operation Silence' last year have been stolen from the Aabpara police station here.

"The weapons have been stolen under `mysterious' circumstances," the Daily Times reported a private television channel, as saying.

Taking serious note of the theft, Interior Adviser Rehman Malik has suspended 10 police officials on the charge of dereliction of duty. All the accused were arrested later.

"Aabpara ASP Shehzad Asim, SSP Captain Ahmed Latif and the Aabpara superintendent of police have been suspended," a spokesman of the Interior Ministry said.

Islamabad  - The death toll in a massive fire that gutted a popular shopping centre in Pakistan's garrison town of Rawalpindi rose to 12 on Sunday, while at least two were still missing, officials

Islamabad - At least 15 people were killed in a rocket attack, executions carried out by suspected Taliban militants, and bombardment by warplanes in north-west Pakistan, officials and media reports said on Sunday.

Islamist insurgents fired four rockets on various locations in Bannu district of North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) late Saturday.

"Two of these were aimed at city police station but they missed the target and hit a construction company office. Two of its employees were killed," said a local police officer Zaheer Ahmad.

The other two landed close to a private hospital and in a football ground, causing no damage.

Islamabad, Dec 21: Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who envisioned a secular state of Pakistan and wanted people to be happy and prosperous, would not be able to live in the country today without feeling threatened and insecure.

There has been no dearth, for some time, of foreign experts and analysts who imply that Pakistan is becoming a failed state and being projected the most dangerous place in the world, The News reported.

Pakistan becoming a failed state and being ungovernable, who should we expect to pick up the pieces and set a direction for the country that is in consonance with the dictates of the modern world and, to invoke a cliché, the vision of Mohammad Ali Jinnah? The paper asked.