Lahore, Feb. 10: US Central Command officials are planning to rope in even more capable drones to support their Afghanistan operations. Already, unmanned aircraft system (UAS) flight hours in Afghanistan have doubled every three months, Aviation Week & Space Technology reports.

The magazine claims that Pentagon's UAS fleet is growing and providing new capabilities for war efforts as planners weigh options for even more sophisticated systems.

Karachi, Feb. 10 : The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has revealed that Javed Miandad demanded an exorbitant salary package which forced the Board to sack him from the post of Director-General.

PCB chief Ijaz Butt said Miandad turned down the offer of Rs 500,000 and demanded Rs 1.6 million as salary.

"Miandad asked for a salary which we could not give to him. I regard him highly as a great cricketer but we can''t pay him more than what we had offered him," the News quoted Butt, as saying.

New Delhi  - A top al-Qaeda commander in Afghanistan warned India in a videotape broadcast Tuesday of "Mumbai-style strikes" if it tries to attack Pakistan.

Mustafa Abu al-Yazid said in the video shown on Indian news channels that Indians suffered "humiliation" in the November assault and more was in store if India decided to retaliate against Pakistan.

"India should know that it will have to pay a heavy price if it attacks Pakistan," al-Yazid said in the 20-minute video in Arabic that was received by the BBC in Islamabad. "The mujahedin will sunder your armies into the ground like they did to the Russians in Afghanistan."

Islamabad, Feb. 10: Under rising international pressure, the Pakistan Government has imposed a fresh set of restrictions on disgraced nuclear scientist Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan.

Khan, who was acquitted by the Islamabad High Court of charges of nuclear proliferation last week, faces new restrictions on his movement and contacts.

Lahore, Feb. 10 : The Al-Qaeda has warned India that it could face a repeat of last year's terror attacks in Mumbai if it initiates military action Pakistan.

The BBC says that it has received a video featuring an Al Qaeda leader that warns India against any attack on Pakistan.

Al- Qaeda leader Sheikh Mustafa Abu Yazeed, who was believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in August 2008, warned India of suicide attacks and threatened to hit major economic centers like Mumbai.

Washington, Feb. 10 : The dilemma before the United States at the moment is that some elements of the Pakistani Government continue to support the Taliban as "a proxy organization in Afghanistan."

According to Seth Jones, a terrorism analyst at the RAND Corporation, there is growing concern among American military and intelligence officials about different militants'' havens in Pakistan that they fear could thwart American military efforts in Afghanistan this year.