Islamabad - Islamist militants on Monday mounted an attack on a parking bay in Pakistan's north-western city of Peshawar, killing two people and destroying a dozen trucks loaded with supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan, police said.

The attackers initially fired gunshots inside the privately owned Faisal terminal, which was later rocked by at least three explosions believed to have been caused by rockets, police officer Fazal Mohammad Khan said.

"Two people inside the compound were killed while two more were wounded," Khan said by phone from Pushtakhra area in Peshawar.

Islamabad  - A suicide bomber attacked a security checkpoint Monday in Pakistan's restive Swat valley, killing at least nine people and injuring around two dozen more, a military officer said.

The attacker drove an explosives-laden car that he detonated next to a check post in Sanghota village about 8 am (0300 GMT) during a break in a curfew clamped on the area.

"All of those killed in the attack were civilians," the officer said on condition of anonymity.

Islamabad, Dec 1 : In an attempt to evolve a national consensus over the crisis that has emerged after the terror strikes on Mumbai, Pakistan Prime Minister Gilani has called a Multi-Party Conference (MPC) on national security on Tuesday.

The heads of all political parties have been invited to the conference to help evolve a consensus on how Pakistan should act in the prevailing situation and what steps should be taken if it gets worse.

Islamabad, Dec 1 : The Pakistan Army has termed some notorious militant commanders belonging to the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, including Baitullah Mehsud and Maulvi Fazlullah, as “patriotic” Pakistanis.

These two militant commanders are fighting the Army for the last four years and have invariably been accused of terrorism against Pakistan, but in the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage has suddenly turned terrorists into patriots, The News reported.

Islamabad - Pakistan decided to reverse a decision to send its spy chief to India, a move that can damage efforts to dampen growing tensions between the two countries over terrorist attacks in Mumbai, a government official said on Saturday.

Zahid Bashir, a spokesman of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, said a representative of Inter-Services Intelligence instead of its Director General Lieutenant-Gen Ahmed Shuja Pasha would be dispatched to New Delhi to cooperate with the probe into the Mumbai carnage.

Islamabad, Nov. 28 : The strategy of the United States in South Asia is likely to come unstuck because of the lack of trust that exists between India and Pakistan, experts feel.

Though both countries are moving towards improving bilateral ties through various channels, the New York Times reports that the hostility between the two South Asian neighbors could not only derail the ongoing composite dialogue process, but also have “deep consequences” for the United States, particularly if India finds Pakistani fingerprints on the latest well-planned terrorist operation in Mumbai.