Washington, Feb 9 : The United States wants to continue drone strikes inside Pakistan's tribal areas as American defence experts believe that the strikes have killed a large number of al Qaeda leaders and local militants and destroyed their hideouts.

The US account of the strikes conveyed to Pakistan depicts a picture, which is very different from the public perception in Pakistan that the strikes only kill innocent civilians and children.

Islamabad, February 9: Roaring sales of Valentine Day roses across Pakistan seem to indicate the popularity of the western tradition in the country, despite being termed "Haram" by various Islamic clerics.

According to reports, florists are eagerly waiting for February 14 so that they may make a huge amount of money.

Orders for flowers from nurseries, especially the beautiful fragrant roses, are much higher at this point of time than are placed during any other even like New Year and Eid, reports the Daily Times.

London, Feb 9 : Pakistan is the nation that really "scares" US President Barack Obama and, it will be his administration's greatest foreign policy challenge: A nuclear-armed country hurtling towards chaos.

According to Obama's aides, Pakistan is the nation that really "scares" him. The country is threatened by a growing Islamist insurgency, economic collapse and a crisis of governance as it struggles to establish democratic rule, The Guardian reported.

Islamabad, Feb 9: One of the Mughal era's architectural constructions, a step wall from that period, still exists in a well preserved condition, in Pakistan.

According to a report in The News International, the step wall, called as the `Losar Baoli', is located among the Margalla Hills at Shah Allah Ditta, in the Potohar plateau.

Islamabad, Feb 9: Pakistan will urge US special envoy Richard Holbrooke to adopt a regional approach to solve the prevailing issues of terrorism and extremism.

"We believe that not only Pakistan and Afghanistan, but the whole region is badly affected by terrorism and extremism and we hope that Ambassador Holbrooke would see the issue in the regional context," diplomatic sources said ahead of Holbrooke's visit to the region on Monday.

Islamabad, Feb 9: The Pakistani dossier on the Mumbai terror attacks is ready and the PPP-led Government will file cases against five Pakistanis, including the lone captured militant Ajmal Kasab, for planning the attacks.

The Interior Ministry's report into the Mumbai carnage also states that the attacks were not planned in Pakistan or India, but in a European country, a TV channel quotes sources, as saying.

The conspirators kept in touch by using the Internet; The Nation quotes sources, as saying.