Islamabad, Mar 18 : After taking the British and US audiences by storm, Oscar-winning film `Slumdog Millionaire' is all set to hit the Chinese theatre.

Directed by Danny Boyle, the film has secured a coveted slot as one of 20 major foreign movies that China will import this year, reports The News

Zhang Hongyan, a publicist for Hong Kong-based Edko Film, has revelaed that the film will be released in at least 2,000 theatres across China on March 26.

Boyle will attend the movie''s premiere in Beijing a day before.

Islamabad, Mar. 18 : A Pakistani assistant sub inspector is on trial for declining to follow his seniors' order to thrash Long March participants in Islamabad.

Ironically, the Pakistan Government has accepted the protesters' demand to restore the sacked judiciary, but ASI Raja Arshad is still paying the price for his defiance.

Nawaz Sharif had forbidden policemen to obey the illegal orders of the government during the Long March.

Rawalpindi, Mar. 18: Pakistani intelligence reports have claimed that three suicide bombers were hiding in Rawalpindi and Islamabad respectively to attack the Long March.

Police sources told the Daily Times that the suicide squad had reached the twin cities and planned to target the general public during the March’s proceedings.

Islamabad, Mar. 18 : Pakistan has rebuked media reports which claimed that the United States was planning to expand its military operation beyond the ungoverned tribal areas of Pakistan, particularly in Baluchistan, where top Taliban operatives are reportedly hiding and initiating attacks on the allied forces in the southern Afghanistan.

Islamabad, Mar. 18  Strengthening its capability, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has now attained powers of carrying nuclear warheads.

Addressing media persons on the sidelines of a book launch program, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Tanvir Mehmood Ahmed said: "The PAF has been made nuclear for giving it the status of a real deterrent force."

"We have made the whole of PAF a nuclear force. The PAF has achieved such a deterrence level that no one could cast an evil eye on the motherland," Air Chief Marshal Ahmed said.

Islamabad  - Suspected insurgents on Wednesday killed three policemen who responded to an emergency call after an attack on a university in Pakistan's troubled North-West Frontier Province, officials and media reports said.

The shootings occurred in Chakdara town of the Lower Dir district, 75 kilometres from the provincial capital, Peshawar, police officer Gul Mohammad said by telephone.