Karachi, Mar. 20 : Pakistan's Jamaat-e-Islami party has decided to file a petition against former Pakistan President General (r) Pervez Musharraf over the Lal-Masjid operation, and ongoing army operation in tribal areas of the country.

JeI leader Asadullah Bhutto told The Nation that the Central Shoora of party would decide the future course of action about to file the petition against Musharraf, and the party has not finalized its strategy so far.

Karachi, Mar. 20 : The banned Sipah-e-Sahaba (SeSP) Pakistan has announced plans to organize a conference in Karachi on Friday.

Rechristening itself as Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), the SeSP is organizing the Khatim-ul-Ambia conference, The Daily Times reports.

ASWJ leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem confirmed the news.

"The conference would be attended by various ulemas and religious scholars from across the country," Nadeem said.

Karachi, Mar. 18 : The Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) Wednesday announced its squad for the 26th Sultan Azlan Shah Hockey Cup Tournament to be played in Malaysia.

Zeeshan Ashraf will captain the side and Mohammad Imran will be his deputy. The other players in the squad are Nasir Ahmed, Rana Asif, Shakeel Abbasi, Waqas Sharif, Akhtar Ali, Shabbir Khan, Asim Khan, Tariq Aziz, Shafqat Rasool and Fareed Ahmed, a PHF release said.

The Sultan Azlan Shah Cup is an annual field hockey tournament held in Malaysia. It began in 1983 as a biennial contest.

Karachi, Mar. 18 : Pakistan Cricket Board COO Saleem Altaf has said only political stability in the country can help Pakistan retain its lost reputation in the cricketing world.

Pakistan has gone into international isolation following the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore earlier this month, Altaf said.

Karachi, Mar. 18: Outlawed terrorist outfits such as the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM) may be on the US’s list of most dreaded terror groups, but Pakistan does not consider them dangerous as far as the Criminal Investigation Department’s (CID) recently released ‘Red Book’ of terrorists is concerned.

According to a list of wanted terrorists released by the Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of CID Sindh, Syed Jawed Ali Shah Bukhari, no LeT or JeM operatives are wanted by Pakistan’s authorities.

Karachi, Mar. 14 : The current political turmoil in Pakistan has not only raised questions about the stability of the democratic regime in the country, but it also has severely dented its economic growth.

According to an estimate, Pakistan is losing about three billion rupees daily due to the political chaos, as the lawyers' protest march has paralysed routine business and foreign trade in most parts of the country.