Islamabad, Mar 24 : Pakistan's chief selector Abdul Qadir has said that pacer Shoaib Akhtar can return to Pakistan duty if he proves his fitness over the next few days.

He said the selectors have been keeping an eye on Akhtar's performance to decide whether he can be brought back into the team for the one-dayers against Australia.

Qadir pointed out that Shoaib recently gave a good showing in a one-day game, which he said was a good sign.

Islamabad, Mar. 23: Pakistan Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has said the Pakistan People’s Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz will work jointly at the Centre and in Punjab for the welfare of the masses.

Mukhtar claimed that Chaudhry brothers of the PML-Q were trying hard to create differences between the PPP and the PML-N, but their dreams of coming into power had vanished.

“Politics based on horse trading and blackmail has no future in Pakistan,” the Daily Times quoted him, as saying.

Islamabad, Mar 24 : Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari has said the US and NATO troops have been waging anti-terror war in Afghanistan for last seven years, but they have failed to accomplish the desired goals so far.

He questioned Obama-led US Administration what major success they had achieved during their last 10 years’ struggle in Afghanistan.

“I assumed charge of office of presidency mere four months ago and it is too early to expect much good,” The News quoted Zardari, as saying.

Islamabad, Mar 24 : Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has said that the real judiciary has been restored after a long time and now the dignity of the court and institution would have to be restored besides the judiciary would have to be cleaned of corruption.

Speaking after resuming work today , the Chief Justice gave this remark during hearing of a case at Court No. 1.

Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry said that irregularities would not be tolerated in dispensing justice.

Islamabad, Mar 24: President Asif Ali Zardari has expressed satisfaction over the positive response by the PML-N leadership to the government’s reconciliatory overtures, saying the process should move forward to strengthen political system in the country.

The President expressed these remarks in a meeting with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani after giving away awards to the distinguished personalities in various fields on the occasion of Pakistan Day at the President’s House.

Islamabad  - A policeman was killed and several people were injured on Monday in a suicide bombing outside an office of the police's intelligence wing in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, security officials said.

The bomber blew himself up when a police guard stopped him at the gate of the police's special branch, located in the heart of the city, just a few hundred yards away from the headquarters of the premier military Inter-Service Intelligence agency.