Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski and visiting Palestinian Authority President Mahmud Abbas condemned on Monday the Pakistani Taliban's recent killing of a kidnapped Polish geologist.

"We don't accept terrorism. We didn't accept it and we won't," Kaczynski told reporters in Warsaw, adding that the killing was proof that no country is free from the threat of terrorism.

Pakistani militants released on Sunday what appeared to be video footage of the Polish engineer's beheading. They had offered to exchange him for 61 of their colleagues held by Pakistan.

Munich  - A Polish engineer kidnapped by Taliban militants in Pakistan has been killed, Poland's foreign minister said at a security conference in Munich on Sunday, citing "reliable but unconfirmed" reports.

The group in north west Pakistan holding Peter Stanczak for the past 18 weeks had claimed via a spokesman late Saturday to have executed their hostage, but there had been no official confirmation.

Speaking to the Polish news agency PAP at the conference in Germany on Sunday, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said: "The Polish geologist working for the development of Pakistan was killed only yesterday."

Sikorksi said Stanczak had been killed according to reliable but unconfirmed reports, PAP reported.

Islamabad  - Taliban militants in troubled north-western Pakistan said Saturday that a Polish electrician held by them for the last 18 weeks has been beheaded.

A Taliban spokesman who identified himself as Mohammad, told various media organizations over the phone that Polish citizen Peter Stanczak was executed in tribal district of South Waziristan after the expiry of a February 6 deadline given to Pakistani and Polish governments to fulfil the militants' demands.

Islamabad - Taliban militants in troubled north-western Pakistan claimed Saturday that a Polish electrician held by them for the last 18 weeks has been killed.

A Taliban spokesman who identified himself as Mohammad, told various media organizations over the phone that Peter Stanczak was executed after the expiry of a February 6 deadline given to Pakistani and Polish governments to fulfil the militants' demands.

Both government did not seem interested in the release of the captive, added Mohammad, who represents the Taliban in the country's tribal district of Darra Adam Khel.

Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski has signed an act that cuts pensions to former communist security services and military council members, according to an announcement on his website Friday.

The law, passed by parliament last month, will take effect in 2010. It will strip former security service members and members of the Military Council of National Salvation
(WRON) who imposed martial law in 1981 of their pensions.

Warsaw- Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed an act cutting pensions to former communist security services and military council members, his website announced on Friday.

The law, passed by parliament last month, will take effect in 2010. It will strip pensions to former security service members and those of the Military Council of National Salvation (WRON) who imposed martial law in 1981.

The announcement comes on the anniversary of Poland's Round Table talks, when communist officials in 1989 first sat down with Lech Walesa's Solidarity movement to negotiate on power-sharing.