Islamabad - A Pakistani court on Monday removed government restrictions on disgraced nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan and allowed him to travel within the country to meet relatives but asked his not to give interviews on proliferation. 

Khan, who is still regarded as a national hero for spearheading Pakistan's nuclear programme, gave a series of telephone interviews in recent months, lending credence to the view that the blame for proliferation goes to the army which controls the nuclear programme. 

New Delhi, Jul 21 : Indian Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon on Monday warned that the over four-year-old peace process between New Delhi and Islamabad is under stress in the wake of the July 7 suicide bomb attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul.

Accusing "elements" in Pakistan for that incident, Menon said that conveyed the Indian Government’s strong objections on the recent terror attacks and ceasefire violations to his Pakistani counterpart Salman Bashir, and demanded that these concerns of New Delhi be addressed.

London, July 21: The car chase in ‘The Italian Job’ has been voted the ‘Best Car Chase Of All Movies’ in a new poll of filmgoers.

The 1969 pursuit follows three Mini Coopers around the streets of Turin, Italy, at break-neck speed.

‘The Blues Brothers’, which features a huge pile-up finale, was placed second in the survey, conducted for cinema advertisers Pearl & Dean.

According to Sky News, ‘The Bourne Identity’, again involving a Mini, stood third, while 1998 action-thriller film Ronin came fourth.

Rounding off the top five was Bullitt, a 1968 police thriller film starring Steve McQueen.

The poll results in full were:

1. The Italian Job

2. The Blues Brothers

Islamabad, July 21: Some leaders of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz have admitted that the alliance is becoming more dysfunctional and wobbly with each passing day.

During background discussions with the Daily Times, they agreed that the coalition was in a limbo and had no prospects of moving ahead in a meaningful way.

Some conceded that the alliance was virtually dead because of the separate political compulsions and stands of the two major partners.

One PPP leader said: "We are running out of patience due to the policies of the PML-N, which is not cooperating at all. It has brought so much embarrassment for the PPP."

Islamabad, July 21 : Awami National Party (ANP) leader Abdul Latif Afridi has asked the federal government to place Pakistan’s intelligence agencies on a leash if it wants normalcy to prevail in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Afridi claimed that the people of FATA were being sandwiched between the United States and the federal government.

According to the Daily Times, Afridi, who also heads the ANP’s committee on tribal affairs, charged that Pakistan’s interference in Afghanistan and its involvement with the Taliban had brought the war into the tribal region.

“Peace would remain elusive in the country and NWFP unless the government changed its existing Afghan policy,” said the ANP leader.

Islamabad, July 21: Political parties in Balochistan have said that they were “incredibly disappointed” with Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani first address to the nation on Saturday night.

According to the Daily Times, most of them felt that Gilani had ignored mentioning the problems affecting Pakistan’s largest province, clearly giving the impression that the military establishment had pressured both the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) and Gilani not to touch the “sensitive” issue of Balochistan.