Washington, Jan 31 : Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States, Hussain Haqqani, has said that so long as Washington considers Islamabad its friend, financial aid would not stop, and added that the Biden-Lugar Bill has not died down.

He further said that the Biden-Lugar Bill would be presented in few days with the signatures of its new movers, besides till now there was no hitch in its approval.

Geo TV quoted him as saying that the majority of both the Houses were not in favour of slapping more restrictions on Pakistan.

Lahore, Jan 31 : The Pakistani port city of Karachi is under threat from terrorists, and may witness terror strikes similar to Mumbai, Governor of the Sindh province Ishratul Ebad said.

According to The Daily Times, Ebad said that the financial capital of Pakistan, Karachi is facing a tricky situation with the Talibani terrorists mixing with the population and raising funds illegally to carry out their devastating plans.

"There is the infiltration of a few people. For terrorism you don't need the masses, rather you need a few people to create havoc in your area," Ebad said.

Lahore, Jan. 31 : The chief of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Asma Jahangir, has said that there is a need of greater people-to-people contact between the citizens of India and Pakistan in order to establish peace in the region.

Talking to media here, Jahangir expressed her happiness over the successful tour of the `peace mission' to India.

Islamabad, Jan. 31: Pakistan has once again urged the United States to reconsider its stance on the `war on terror' inside Pakistan's territory, and take its vital national interest into consideration before carving out any new strategy in the fight against extremism.

Islamabad, Jan 31: The Pakistan Muslim League-N has accused the PPP-led Government of indulging in a "character-assassination" campaign against its leader Nawaz Sharif.

The PPP-led Government, however, moved quickly to decry such tactics in an apparent conciliatory gesture.

Islamabad, Jan 31 : The civilian and military leadership should make concerted efforts to regain control of the Swat Valley from militants, various defence experts have said.

Most participants at a discussion organised by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) agreed that the current turmoil in Swat was not a struggle for Sharia, but a war perpetrated by anti-Pakistan elements.

They also agreed that the army and the political leadership must act in unison to recapture the territory and authority lost to the militants.