Lahore, Dec. 14 : Jihadi leaders, including five belonging to the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa organization, who were placed under preventive detention, will be let off soon if there is no evidence of their involvement in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, the chief of police in Pakistan''s Punjab Province, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Shaukat Javed has said.

Javed was quoted by The News as saying that "No activist or worker of the Jamaat-ud-Daawa has been detained because it is not required under the UN Security Council resolution."

Islamabad/Lahore, Dec. 14 : A Pakistan Air Force (PAF) spokesman said on Saturday that Indian Air Force jets had violated Pakistani airspace in the Kashmir and Lahore sectors, but were turned back soon after crossing the airspace over the border separating the two countries.

In the wake of the incident, an emergency was declared at the Shorkot and Sarghoda airbases on Sunday.

Pakistan Air Force spokesman Air Commodore Himayun Viqar said two Indian aircraft crossed into Pakistan administered Kashmir and into Lahore, but refused to reveal the exact time of the alleged intrusion.

Pakistan''s Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman, however, played down the incident, saying that the incursion was ''inadvertent''.

Lahore, Dec. 14 : Reiterating that Pakistan would not hand over any of its citizens to India for interrogation in connection with last month''s terrorist attacks in Mumbai and that New Delhi has shared ''very little information'' with Islamabad on the incident, President Asif Ali Zardari also said on Saturday night that there were no links between the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the banned Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT).

London, Dec 13: The dancing girls of Lahore, the cultural capital of Pakistan, have gone on strike to protest against the ban on ‘Mujra’.

Last month, Lahore High Court had imposed a ban on the graceful and elaborate dance- first developed in the Mughal courts 400 years ago- on the grounds that it is “too sexually explicit”.

The revolt sparked in the protest against the tide of Talibanisation that is threatening to destroy the art form.

"The Mujra by its very nature is supposed to be a seductive dance," The Independent quoted Badar Alam, a cultural expert as saying.

He recalls that attempts were made to ban it during the 1980s.

Lahore, Dec. 13: South Australia is looking to employ Pakistan fast bowler Sohail Tanvir for its Twenty20 campaign, but according to the Daily Times, the move depends on his international commitments.

Tanvir starred for the Rajasthan Royals in the Indian Premier League (IPL) earlier this year, and if the short-term deal goes through, he will step in for Younis Khan, who is helping out the struggling Redbacks in 2007-08, says a report on a cricket website.

Lahore, Dec. 13: Criticizing the Pakistan Government for toeing the line of the United States through its crackdown on the Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Jamaat-e-Islami (JEI) Chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad said that move in the wake of a UN ban on the organization, was solely aimed at favouring India, a key strategic ally of Washington.

He described the current situation as painful, especially when Pakistan has rendered yeoman support as a frontline ally in the global war on terror.