Peshawar, Feb 2: Sher Azam Khan, personal security manager of PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, was assassinated in his native town of Khalabat in district Haripur of Morth West Frontier Province.

Khan also Finance Secretary of the party's NWFP chapter was going to his home in a car along with members of his family when some unidentified gunmen fired at the car, sources said.

Larkana, Feb 2 : A team of archaeologists working on a drain to flush out rainwater from the DK-G area of an explored part of Moenjodaro found some ancient artefacts and cultural objects.

Rainwater stagnates in several parts of the world heritage site every year, causing causes immense damage.

Well-defined structures of old drains were discovered along with certain old artefacts during the digging.

"We had gone just half a metre down the level of surface of the old structures in the DK-G area and found the material of cultural value," The Dawn quoted Moenjodaro director Qasim Ali Qasim, as saying.

Washington, Feb 2 : Pakistan has long viewed the various Islamic ilitias it created and helped fund -- including the Taliban -- as useful eapons in its arsenal, low-cost ways to keep its historic foes, India and Afghanistan off balance.

According to Fareed Zakaria, the editor of Newsweek International, when the United States invaded Afghanistan, it did not defeat al-Qaeda and its supporters among the Taliban. They simply fled to Pakistan, their original home.

For Islamabad to genuinely renounce these groups, therefore, it would require a fundamental strategic rethinking within the Pakistani military.

London, Feb 2: Pakistan's High Commissioner to UK Wajid Shamsul Hasan has clarified that a remark attributed to him regarding Pakistan's probe into the Mumbai terrorist attacks, was peculative.

After reports that Pakistani investigators had found the attacks were not planned on Pakistani soil, there were "insinuations" that they were planned in the UK, he said.

Quetta, Feb 2 : A senior official of UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has been kidnapped on Monday in Quetta, the largest city and the provincial capital of the Balochistan Province of Pakistan.

According to initial reports, unknown persons opened fire on the car of head of UNHCR Balochistan John Solecki as soon as he left the home for office.

Syed Hashim Raza, the driver of Solecki has been killed in the incident whereas attackers abducted John Solecki.

Senior police officials have reached the scene after the incident, The News reported.

Police have cordoned off the area and launched search operation for the recovery of the UNHCR official.

Karachi, Feb 2: Karachi police have registered a case against three unidentified women who allegedly abducted a man and raped him over four consecutive days, and later throwing him near Qayyumabad River in an unconscious state.

The victim identified as Khalil (23) had recently arrived in Karachi from Rahimyar Khan, and works as a waiter at a restaurant in Neelum Colony, Clifton.

Khalil revealed that, on the night of January 27, an identified man ordered him to deliver food to the women sitting in a car parked outside the restaurant.