Lahore, Aug 14: The Pakistan’s unit of the Taliban – the TTP (Tehreek-e-Taliban – has reportedly warned people in the Swat tribal area to stay away from Independence Day celebrations today, a local TV report said.

Pakistan is celebrating its 61st Independence Day today, and the Taliban’s threat came last evening.

According to the report, Taliban spokesman Haji Muslim Khan said those who had destroyed Taliban’s houses would see their own houses destroyed.

Lahore, Aug 12 : In Iraq, Al Qaeda might have been alienated because of terrible killings of those who refuse to pledge allegiance to them, but it lost credibility in the Gulf country because of imposing a series of rules imposing their way of thought on the most mundane aspects of everyday life, like forcing women not to buy “suggestively-shaped” vegetables like cucumber!

They directed that only males could buy such vegetables, because they considered such vegetables as male.

The self-made ruled imposed by Qaeda, include a ban on women buying “suggestively-shaped” vegetables, the Daily Times quoted a tribal leader in the western Iraq province of Anbar as telling the Daily Telegraph.

Lahore, Aug 8: Ahead of the impending Impeachment Motion against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, constitutional experts in the country have said that the Pakistan Supreme Court can issue an injunction to stay the impeachment process.

Former Lahore High Court Bar Association president Ahmed Awais said that an injunction could provide a way for Musharraf to prolong the issue, the Daily Times reported.

Lahore, Aug 8: Like the ten Indian parliamentarians who cross-voted during the July 22 Trust Motion moved by Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh, ahead of Monday’s Impeachment Motion against Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, it is expected that a large number of Pakistan lawmakers may too cross the floor.

Cross-voting is expected because the numerical margin in the Pakistan Parliament is very close, said an editorial in the Daily Times.

Lahore, Aug 6 : Amid the ongoing row over ISI’s role, or influence, in Pakistan’s governance, senior PPP leader Munir Ahmed Khan has reportedly said that intelligence agencies should not have any “political role” since their basic objective was to protect the country against terrorism.

Khan said that the current government was a democratic one and intelligence agencies had no political role except fulfilling their basic objective, which was to eliminate terrorism from the country, reported the Daily Times.

He said that Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani’s visit to the US, which was coincided with ISI row, had been very successful, and it would help Pakistan in getting 15 billion dollars in aid.

Lahore, July 31: The Pakistan unit of the Taliban – the Tehreek-e-Islami Taliban Pakistan (TIP) has reportedly threatened the owners of CDs shops, Internet cafes and cable service providers to close down their activities, and warned the women to wear ‘hijab’ to ensure safety, else their face would be disfigured by acid.

The Taliban gave a 15-day notice to several “un-Islamic” businesses like video parlours and CD shops, in Kot Addu to shut down or face dire consequences, reported the Daily Times.

The computer typed letter had Baitullah Mehsud’s photograph on it along with two gunmen, and there were also Quranic verses about Jihad around the picture, said Kot Addu Police Station House Officer (SHO) Irfan Khosa.