Lahore, Aug 30 : Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Khwaja Asif has told media persons here that there is no possibility of an alliance with the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the immediate future.

Alleging that the PPP Government is destroying the judicial institution, Asif said that Law Minister Farouk Naek is distributing cheques worth millions of rupees for this purpose.

The Daily Times quoted Asif as saying that the PML-N is in touch with the PML-Quaid and hoped to improve such contacts further.

Lahore, Aug 29 : Prisoners in Pakistan have found a novel way of hiding their cell phones, albeit a bit painful, by stuffing them up their rectums!

In a raid conducted by the Lahore Police, a total of 37 cellphones were recovered, with some of them hidden inside the prisoners’ rectums and detected while they passed under a metal detector.

According to the Daily Times, seven of them had to be operated upon at Services Hospital to get the phones out of their bodies.

Lahore, Aug 29: Sikh students in Lahore have demanded reservation at the Government College University (GCU) after two of them were denied admission because of a lack of minority seats at the institution.

The students said that they must be granted reservation on the lines of reservation for sportsmen, children of teachers, etc.

Lahore, Aug 28 : Pakistan will be an unfortunate country if a person like PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari became the next President, because he will be a “security risk” for the country, the country’s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said.

Drawing a parallel between Zardari and former president Pervez Musharraf, he said that the former had no right to exonerate the latter from his Nov 7 unconstitutional acts and slaughter of people (at Lal Masjid) in pursuance of the US’ agenda.

Lahore, Aug 28 : Bookies in Pakistan are putting their bet on PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari as the country’s next president. They declared him as the people’s “favourite” candidate for the highest post of the country.

Bookies claimed that numerous police officers had also placed bets with them on Zardari’s name for the post of President.

A bookie, requesting anonymity, reportedly said that many people were placing their money on Zardari, as they believed that he would win the presidential elections, reported the Daily Times.

Lahore, Aug 27 : After the lone Swiss money-laundering case against PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari was withdrawn on Monday, the Swiss court hearing the case has handed the seized money, over 60 million dollars, to the Swiss government.

The prosecution lawyer said that the account holder’s name was confidential and could not be disclosed.

The case was withdrawn as the Pakistan government had withdrawn its earlier allegations against Zardari, the Daily Times quoted the lawyer as saying.