Peshawar, Feb. 17 : Three people were killed and eight others injured in a car bomb explosion in the North West Frontier Province''s suburban town of Bazidkhel, which is located just outside Peshawar.

News reports quoted officials as saying that the car exploded outside the guest house of Fahimur Rehman.

''We have cordoned off the entire area and started rescue work. The injured have been taken to a local hospital,'' police officials said.

Rehman managed to escape unhurt as the blast damaged two outer walls of Rehman''s house and two neighbouring homes.

Islamabad, Feb. 17 : Despite the Pakistan Government's insistence that the new legal system in the Swat Valley is consistent with existing civil law, there are some people in the country who see the accord as representing the ominous power of the militants, and fear that it could spread into the heartland of Pakistan, including the country's most populous and wealthiest province, Punjab.

"The hardest task for the government will be to protect the Punjab against inroads by militants," the Dawn quotes I. A. Rehman, a member of the Human Rights Commission, as saying in an article for the newspaper.

New Delhi, Feb 17 : With Pakistan reportedly slating that the Samjhauta Express blast and 26/11 Mumbai attacks were interlinked, India said Pakistan was trying to raise "old" issues.

Pakistani newspaper Dawn, on February 16, quoted Qureshi as saying, "If India wanted to punish the culprits of the Mumbai attacks, it should reply to the 30 questions raised by Pakistan because answers to these questions were necessary for completion of investigation."

Islamabad, Feb 17: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that non-state actors were involved in the Mumbai terror attacks, adding that he is not embarrassed by the way the Pakistan Government conducted the investigations.

Replying to a question about the Mumbai carnage, Qureshi said the government had condemned the incident from day one and had condoled with those who had lost their near and dear ones in it.

Rawalpindi, Feb 17 : The views expressed by former President Pervez Musharraf are tantamount to rubbing salt into the wounds of the nation because it is his dictatorship that pushed Pakistan towards political and constitutional anarchy.

Commenting on the press conference of Musharraf, PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal said on Geo TV's `Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Sath': "Pakistan had received 80 billion dollars since 2002, but no project was executed for development in the country but the money has vanished."

Karachi, Feb 17: Six more Pakistani cricketers who had sided with the controversial Indian Cricket League (ICL) have been allowed to play in domestic matches.

The Sindh High Court (SHC) while ruling in favor of six more players banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB), allowed the players to take part in domestic cricket.

The cricketers got permission to play domestic cricket are Imran Farhat, Humayun Farhat, Imran Nazir, Taufiq Umer, Riaz Afridi and Rashid Khan.