Islamabad, Apr. 4 : Days after intelligence agencies warned that over a dozen terrorists have entered Islamabad and Lahore in the garb of religious preachers, intelligence sources have now revealed that nine militants have sneaked into Punjab and are planning to carry out attacks similar to the Manawan police training academy strike.

According to The Nation, the group of terrorists also includes two would-be suicide bombers aged 20 and 22 years respectively.

Islamabad, Apr. 4 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has ordered a probe into the case of Taliban flogging a 17-year-old girl publicly in Swat, where the government recently signed a sharia deal with the Taliban.

Zardari has sought a report from the NWFP provincial government, and has called for the arrest of those responsible, a presidential spokesman said.

"President is shocked by the act of barbarism that has brought down heads in shame. Such barbarism is unpardonable," the Daily Times quoted spokesman Farhatullah Babar, as saying.

Islamabad, Apr. 4 : Pakistan's armed forces appear to have thrown in the towel in so far as dealing with the Taliban in the country's North West Frontier Province (NWFP), and particularly in the Swat Valley is concerned, while the government seems to be in limbo and a bystander to what is going on there.

"I know that the federal and provincial governments are innocent victims and bystanders. The military has handed over the ownership and refuses to fight," claims human rights activist Samar Minallah.

Islamabad  - A suspected US missile strike on a militant hideout early Saturday killed at least 13 people and injured several more in Pakistan's tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an intelligence official said.

Three missiles fired apparently from a pilotless US drone aircraft destroyed the home of a local Taliban leader Tariq Khan in Datta Khel area of North Waziristan.

Islamabad, Apr. 3 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has strongly condemned the Taliban's barbaric act of publicly flogging a teenage girl.

Reacting to wide scale public anger over the issue, Gilani said every step would take to ensure that such inhuman act is not repeated again.

"We'll make sure such incidents do not happen again in future," Gilani told media persons.

Islamabad, Apr. 3 : Pak-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud is being seen as a growing threat to President Barack Obama's anti-terror strategies in Pakistan and beyond, experts say.

A day after Mehsud threatened to attack the White House, a US drone fired two missiles at the alleged hideout of one of his commanders, killing 14 people.