Islamabad, Dec. 4 : Pakistan has told the Unites States that it is not involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, directly or indirectly, and warned that any aggression from India will compel it to move its forces from the tribal areas in the west of the country to its eastern border with India.

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari is said to have conveyed this missive to visiting Admiral Mike Mullen, the Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, who is on a short visit here.

The Dawn quoted sources as saying that Pakistani commanders have made it clear that the ‘war on terror’ would not be Pakistan’s top priority if there was any unusual military build-up by India along the borders.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Dec. 4  -- Pakistan's major political parties have condemned the Mumbai terrorist massacre, but reject Indian charges it was masterminded by militants in their country.

In a show of oneness, party leaders issued a resolution saying they shared India's grief, the BBC reported. But they rejected "unsubstantiated allegations made in haste against Pakistan."

India, the report said, has not directly accused the Pakistani government but wants it to surrender about 20 people accused by Indian authorities of being linked to militant attacks over the years.

There have also been accusations by some Pakistani media and some lawmakers that the Mumbai attacks were a conspiracy by Hindu extremists to malign Pakistan.

Islamabad, Dec. 4 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani is struggling to find appropriate people to run his secretariat.

According to a Daily Times report, Gilani is on the lookout for two suitable officials to fill the posts of principal and press secretaries lying vacant in his secretariat.

According to the paper, Gilani’s quest for reliable aides has been complicated by the shocking fall of the bureaucracy over the last eight years due to the misuse of power by National Accountability Bureau hounds.

Islamabad - A suicide bomber on Wednesday killed at least four soldiers in Pakistan's north-western district of Charsadda near the Afghan frontier, a police official said.

The bomber rammed his explosive-laden motor rickshaw into a vehicle transporting Frontier Corps (FC) paramilitary troops in the Pir Qala area bordering the lawless Mohmand tribal region.

"According to initial reports, four FC men were killed in the explosion while half a dozen wounded were shifted to the hospital," a local police official, Mohammad Zaheer, said.

Islamabad, Dec. 3 : The lacklustre approach by the Pakistan Government and provincial adminsitrations to dealing with militancy and insurgency has led analysts and experts to suggest that in the wake of the terror attacks in Mumbai and the volatile situation prevailing on Pakistan''s borders with Afghanistan, there is a need for a major rethink on threat perceptions and strategic orientations.

According to an editorial in the Dawn, Pakistan is caught in the eye of the storm in the so-called war on terror between the US and its allies on one side and Al Qaeda and the Taliban on the other.

Islamabad, Dec 3 : Former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked the government to summon a session of the National Assembly immediately to discuss the Mumbai attacks.

Addressing a news conference here on Tuesday, Sharif said, “Parliament should discuss the situation in the backdrop of Mumbai attacks.

He made it clear that the PML-N never wanted to play to the gallery or score points over the security of Pakistan, while India showed an irresponsible attitude by accusing Pakistan and its institutions of supporting the attack.