Islamabad, feb 12 : Former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad will tour China as a cricket ambassador next month, an official of the sports ministry said on Thursday.

Miandad believes China had the potential to be a cricket power. He will tour the country from March 9 to 15.

"I have no doubt that they could excel in the field of cricket, like they did in other sports," he said.

Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari, who is also patron-in-chief of the Pakistan Cricket Board, appointed Miandad as cricket ambassador to China in December last year.

Islamabad, Feb. 12 : The Taliban claiming responsibility for the death 26 people in suicide attacks on two government buildings in Kabul, Afghanistan, suggests that the militant outfit has the potential to come up with new and more violent responses in the coming days.

Given this latest scenario in Afghanistan, it comes as no surprise that security in Pakistan, and particularly in Islamabad, has been tightened to unprecedented levels.

According to Syed Saleem Shahzad, the Pakistan Bureau Chief of the Asia Times Online, the attack on Kabul comes even as both Barack Obama (US) and Gordon Brown

Islamabad, Feb. 12 : Former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad will tour China as a cricket ambassador next month, an official of the sports ministry said Thursday.

Miandad believes China, which he will tour from March 9 to 15, had the potential to be a cricket power.

"I have no doubt that they could excel in the field of cricket, like they did in other sports,'''' The News quoted him, as saying.

Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari, who is also patron-in-chiefof the Pakistan Cricket Board, appointed Miandad as cricket ambassador to China in December last year.

Islamabad, Feb. 12 : The Pakistan Government''s admission on Thursday that terrorists involved in the attack Mumbai on November 26, 2008, planned some of the strategy in Pakistan, should be seen as "well timed and a clever diversion of the case".

According to one analysis, the disclosure made by Rehman Malik, the Pakistan Prime Minister''s Adviser on Interior Affairs, is "well timed" because it has come at a time when President Barack Obama''s Special Envoy on Pakistan and Afghanistan, Richard C. Holbrooke, is due to visit New Delhi.

Islamabad, Feb. 12 : Indian leadership should not rubbish Pakistan's interest in seeking more evidence on the November 2008 terror attacks on Mumbai, as this would not facilitate the ongoing legal processes, the Dawn opines.

Pakistan is preparing for the phase two of the response to the Mumbai attacks. In phase one, India and the international community demanded that Pakistan track down any local links of the attacks and shut down the terror network within the nation.

Now, it is the turn for prosecuting Mumbai suspects and facilitating the complete dismantling of the `Jamaat-ud-Dawa', the Dawn opines.

Karachi, Feb. 12: Pakistan Cricket Board Chairman Ijaz Butt is in a serious trouble for refusing to quit, as the Senate's Standing Committee on Sports is now thinking of filing a dispensation motion against him .

"I will be consulting my fellow committee members over the remarks made by the PCB chief, and there is a possibility that we may file a privilege motion again him, The News quoted Senator Enver Baig, as saying.

Senator Baig said the committee has the power to charge Butt, and this would be indicated to the PCB chief at its next meeting.

Baig attacked Butt for ruining the Pakistan cricket.