New Delhi, Feb 19 : In a chilling revelation, a website, politics party. com, has disclosed that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) had links with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and was being paid by it.

The website quoted RSS leader Dayanand Pande as saying: "RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat and the RSS chief of the Muslim cell Indaresh maintained a regular contact with the ISI."

Pande made this admission to the Anti-Terror Force (ATF) of the Mumbai Police in the presence of the Deputy Commissioner of Mumbai.

Islamabad - Pakistani journalists on Thursday held rallies across the country to protest the overnight killing of a local reporter in the troubled Swat district of North Western Frontier Province (NWFP). Musa Khankhel, a correspondent for the Geo TV and English-language daily The News, was seized by gunmen in the Matta area on Wednesday when he was covering a peace rally by Islamic cleric Sufi Mohammad, the father-in-law of Taliban commander Maulana Fazlullah.

Islamabad, Feb. 19 : Delegations from Pakistan and Afghanistan are due to arrive in Washington next week to conduct a strategic review of the Afghan war effort and to fine tune the Obam administration's policy toward Pakistan and the region.

The foreign ministers of the two countries will head the delegations and they will meet with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and special envoy Richard C. Holbrooke, among others.

Holbrooke, who set up the visits during a tour of the region last week, said Wednesday that the administration expected two things from the meetings.

Islamabad, Feb. 19 : The controversial peace agreement designed to end Taliban violence in the Swat Valley hung in limbo on Wednesday amid criticism in Pakistan and rising concern in Washington.

According to the Washington Post, neither the Pakistani government nor the Taliban were willing to formalize the accord that was announced on Monday.

The proposed pact marks an unprecedented and risky attempt to disarm about 2,000 Taliban fighters, who have invaded and terrorized 1.5 million people in northwestern Pakistan, by offering to install a strict system of Islamic law in the surrounding district.

London, Feb. 18 : Despite Pakistan's repeated denials of its airbases being used by US Predators to hit suspected militant outfits inside its territory, a Google Earth image has revealed that its airbases are indeed being put to such use by the US security forces.

According to a report published in the Times of London, a 2006 Google Earth image of the Shamsi airbase, which is situated 200 miles southwest of Quetta, shows three predator drones outside a hanger at the end of the runway.

Islamabad, Feb 19 : Pakistan media on Thursday said it would protest against the murder of Geo TV journalist Musa Khan Khel, who was killed while covering a rally organized by extremist group Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) in Swat.

The media vowed to stand up to the Taliban's life threatening acts.

According to Geo TV, Musa Khan's body was peppered with 32 bullet.

Geo News executive editor Hamid Mir made it clear that such brutal acts would not deter journalists from reporting the truth.