Lahore, Feb. 19: The Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt has claimed that there would be no security issues in Pakistan, and the venue of the World Cup 2011 will not be changed.

According to The News, the PBC chairman said that the mega event would definitely be held in Pakistan, and its venue would not be changed.

London, Feb. 19 : British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said both UK and USA are working on a joint strategy to deal with the issue of terrorism along the Pak-Afghanistan border.

During his monthly news briefing at the Downing Street he said that the British Government was not just looking in Afghanistan but also at the relationship between Pakistan and the US.

"Our strategy is to complement military action in Afghanistan with policies to improve governance and train the Afghan army and police," the Daily Times quoted Brown, as saying.

Islamabad  - Afghan President Hamid Karzai's visit to Islamabad scheduled for Thursday was postponed because of bad weather in Kabul, Pakistan's Foreign Affairs Ministry said.

"A new date for the visit will be announced soon," ministry spokesman Abdul Basit said.

Karzai had been scheduled to hold talks with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani during his visit.

Lahore, Feb. 19 : Bangladesh, for the first time, has `officially' admitted that terrorist outfits operating from its soil may also have been involved in the November 2008 Mumbai terror attacks.

"The terrorist attacks that have been carried out within the region in the recent months, even in Mumbai, there is a cross-border linkage among all the terrorists,"The Daily Times quoted Bangladesh's Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Hassan Memoud, as saying.

Memoud also accepted that the banned militant outfit, Harkatul Jihadul Islami, has its base in Bangladesh, and continues to function from there.

Islamabad, Feb. 18: There seems to be a lack of communication between Pakistani authorities as demands and denials for the handing over Ajmal Amir Kasab, the lone surviving Mumbai terrorist, from India were made almost simultaneously during the last 24 hours.

Contradictory statements first came-in when the Deputy Attorney General of Pakistan, Sardar Muhammad Ghazi, claimed that Islamabad has formally requested the Indian Government to hand over Kasab so that it could initiate trials of the suspects it has captured.

Washington  - Geographers at a California university believe they may have succeeded at a task that has eluded the highest levels of US intelligence and espionage agencies: They think they know where Osama bin Laden is hiding.

Using satellite imagery and geographic principles, scientists at the Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, have concluded that bin Laden is most likely hiding in one of three buildings in a small Pakistani town called Parachinar, not far from the Afghan border.