Islamabad, Mar. 25 : The 325 megawatts (MW) Chashma Nuclear Power Plant has been reportedly shut down after it developed some technical snag.

According to The News, the plant was closed down after a fault was detected in the special motor which ensures the cooling of reactor.

Technical experts are carrying out the repair work. They said the plant could be made operational by next Friday only.

Islamabad, Mar. 25 : Pak-Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud might be involved in Monday's suicide attack on the offices of the police's Special Branch in Islamabad to avenge the July 2007 Lal Masjid operation, investigators have said.

The preliminarily investigation suggests that the same group of militants that had carried out an attack in Rawalpindi on March 16 carried out the latest attack, sources told the Dawn.

The office of the Anti-Terrorism Squad has been targeted before, but this time, the investigators suspect that the bomber wanted to hit the residential quarters.

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.

Islamabad, Mar. 25 : The Lashkar-e-Toiba is close to eclipsing Al Qaeda as the most feared terror group in Pakistan.

According to Sky News, Islamic extremism in Pakistan has taken on a new hue under the LeT.

The CIA is now warning that the LeT or the Army of the Pure has grown so powerful, so pan-national, that its brand of violence is just an e-ticket away from the West.

The LeT has never spoken publicly to western television, but now one of its commanders has gone so far as to refuse to acknowledge the influence of al Qaeda.

Islamabad, Mar. 25: The Lashkar-e-Toiba is close to eclipsing Al Qaeda as the most feared terror group in Pakistan.

According to Sky News, Islamic extremism in Pakistan has taken on a new hue under the LeT.

The CIA is now warning that the LeT or the Army of the Pure has grown so powerful, so pan-national, that its brand of violence is just an e-ticket away from the West.

The LeT has never spoken publicly to western television, but now one of its commanders has gone so far as to refuse to acknowledge the influence of al Qaeda.

Islamabad - Pakistan's top Supreme Court judge held court on Tuesday, more than 16 months after his dismissal by former military president Pervez Musharraf.

A crowd of jubilant lawyers dressed in black suits chanted slogans and threw rose petals as Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry arrived at the Supreme Court building with official protocol.

Chaudhry, 59, was reinstated by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on March 16 as lawyers and opposition political activists marched to the capital Islamabad for a sit-in.