Islamabad, Feb 4 : Pakistan Punjab province Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said that Chief Justice Abdul Hameed Dogar had offered PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif scrapping of the case regarding his disqualification on showing flexibility over judges issue.

Shahbaz said that PML-N would not accept judges who flourished under a dictator's umbrella.

He threatened to launch a public struggle if he was disqualified, The Nation reported.

Karachi, Feb 4 : Former cricketer and chief of Tehreek-e-Insaf, Imran Khan, has said that the game of cricket in the country has been damaged by Pakistan's involvement in the US-led "war on terror".

Khan, who was responding to the International Cricket Council''s (ICC) decision on Sunday to relocate the elite eight-nation Trophy from Pakistan to an undecided venue, said association with conflict was hugely damaging.

Islamabad - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Islamabad on Wednesday afternoon after a brief stop in Kabul where he held talks with Afghan leaders.

During his first visit since taking office in late 2006, Ban is expected to meet Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and President Asif Ali Zardari, an official of Pakistan's foreign ministry said.

The visit came two days after unknown gunmen kidnapped a senior UN official in north-west Pakistan.

Quetta, Feb. 4 : A day after a senior official of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), John Solecki was kidnapped, unidentified miscreants abducted six more persons belonging to an oil and gas exploring company in Machh (Balochistan) on Tuesday.

According to The Nation, six personnel of a private company were on their way in a vehicle in Margat, when unknown armed persons intercepted their vehicle and drove them to an unknown location.

Islamabad, Feb. 4 : Pakistan's Special Parliamentary Committee on Kashmir has decided to send a memorandum to US President Barack Obama to remind him of his commitment to resolve the Kashmir issue.

The decision came after the committee''s meeting at the Parliament House under the chairmanship of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl
(JUI-F) chief, Fazlur Rehman.

Karachi, Feb. 4 : It's highly unlikely that Cricket Australia (CA) would allow its national cricket squad to tour Pakistan amidst the deteriorating security conditions in the country.

According to the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chairman Ijaz Butt, the Australians are skeptical of visiting Pakistan because of security fears.

Butt also made it clear that the PCB is ready to host the Kangaroos at any neutral venue, and is in discussions with the Australian Cricket Authorities to finalise the venue and the dates.