London, Feb. 11: A video released by a top Al-Qaeda commander has revealed that the assassination of the former Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was planned by Al-Qaeda leader Aiman Al-Zawahiri.

Mustafa Abu al-Yazid, who was believed to have been killed in a US drone strike in August 2008, has claimed that the decision to attack the former Pakistan premier was made by Zawahiri.

Vienna - The price for oil produced by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) rose to 43.85 dollars Monday, as the cartel's chairman indicated that production might be slashed further.

One barrel (159 litres) of OPEC-produced crude climbed 0.55 dollars Monday, the 12-member organization announced Tuesday.

Given current low prices, OPEC would consider cutting output at its next meeting in mid-March, OPEC Chairman Abdalla Salem El-Badri said Monday in London, according to media reports.

Munich  - There were long faces in Munich on Sunday as world leaders debated the fate of the seven-year-old international mission in Afghanistan.

"If we had thought in 2001 that in seven and a half years we'd still be worried, we would have thought it too pessimistic," Poland's foreign minister and former defence minister Radek Sikorksi told the prestigious Munich Security Conference.

But there was worry aplenty in the hall as top soldiers and politicians from the West, Afghanistan and Pakistan grappled with the question of how to tackle a resurgent Taliban, crack down on the drugs trade and strengthen Afghanistan's fragile government.

Munich  - NATO and Afghan leaders were set to debate the future of the international mission in Afghanistan on Sunday amid tensions between Washington, Kabul and European capitals.

US National Security Advisor James Jones, Afghan President Hamid Karzai and German Defence Minister Franz-Josef Jung were to address the prestigious Munich Security Conference at a time when Western leaders are becoming increasingly critical of Karzai's regime and NATO members are struggling to raise troops to combat the Taliban.

Islamabad, Jan 21: The United States has negotiated new supply lines for allied troops in Afghanistan through Central Asia after the Pakistan Taliban attacked and torched supplies passing through the Khyber Pass.

US CENTCOM chief General David Petraeus said: "Pakistan is the sole route through which NATO and American supplies pass at present. This has caused resentment in sections of Pakistani society and supply trucks passing through the northwest have been attacked and raided on several occasions."

Islamabad, Jan. 17: Britain has asked Pakistan to act swiftly, and initiate more measures to ensure that the perpetrators of the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks are prosecuted and punished.

British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, who is on visit to Pakistan after a tour of India, said that those nabbed by Pakistan after the crackdown on the terrorist outfits in the country, should be punished through trial quickly.