Islamabad - Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the United Nations has agreed to set up a commission to investigate last year's killing of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, new

Islamabad - Eight soldiers and two civilians were injured overnight when mortar fire from Afghanistan hit a Pakistani border post in the country's restive tribal area, officials said Friday.

Peshawar, July 11 : The Bara operation was a futile exercise and mere eyewash simply launched to appease the Americans, former NWFP chief minister Sardar Mehtab Ahmed Khan Abbasi said here last evening while speaking to reporters.

He said his party was not taken into confidence on the operation, but they were still morally bound to support it.

Referring to the performance of the PPP-led federal government, he said that the government in four months could not resolve all the problems it was facing.

He said that majority of members of Musharraf''s team, including Shaukat Aziz, had left the country and the Pakistan People''s Party (PPP) was running the affairs of the country with the “assistance of the remaining members of his clique”, reported The News.

Islamabad - Pakistani authorities have discovered two sealed containers carrying radioactive material in the southern port city of Karachi, a news report said on Friday.

United Nations, July 11 : Amid repeated assertions from the US in the recent past that it had the authority to strike on terrorists in Pakistan without waiting for the green signal from Islamabad, Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said that his country won’t allow its soil to be used against other countries (read Afghanistan) nor would it allow foreign troops to operate inside its territory.

Qureshi reportedly told this to the UN Security Council yesterday.

Pakistan Foreign Minister’s statement is also seen as rejection of a standing US offer of military assistance also intended to help Afghanistan. He also said that Pakistan was capable enough to contain terrorism and insurgency on both sides of the border.

Miranshah (Pakistan), Ju