Washington, Dec. 12 : Indian Americans have launched a signature campaign to demand that Pakistan be declared a terrorist state.

A Daily Times report says that copies of one of several petitions are being kept at scores of condolence meetings and candle light vigils being held across the US to honour the memory of those who were killed in the Mumbai terrorist attacks last month.

New Delhi, Dec 12 : It won''t be long before a large group of people march to Wagah on the India Pakistan border carrying lit candles in their hands, seeking friendship with that country. Makes for great pictures, gives them all the publicity, but where does it take the relations between India and Pakistan?

Lahore/Islamabad, Dec 12 : The crackdown against Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) is still continuing in Punjab after the Interior Ministry imposed a ban on the outfit.

The government placed JuD chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed under house arrest and the offices of the JuD have been sealed by the police.

According to police sources, the central office of the Dawa Jamia Alqadsia have been sealed in Lahore.

Besides, many activists have been nabbed in several cities. Police have arrested three persons in Lahore and sealed two centers of the Dawa Ayesha Siddiqua and the Mubarak Masjid.

Islamabad - Pakistan's foreign minister complained Friday that the Indian government was not cooperating in jointly investigating last month's Mumbai attacks which were allegedly masterminded by a Pakistan-based militant group.

"The government of Pakistan has already initiated investigations on its own," Shah Mahmood Qureshi said in a televised statement.

"However, our own investigations cannot proceed beyond a certain point without provision of credible information and evidence pertaining to the Mumbai attacks.

Islamabad, Dec 12 : Women in Pakistan, who are addicted to TV soap operas, mostly produced in India, are found to have high incidence of psychological problems.

TV soaps, like Kyon Key Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi, Koi Apna Sa, Saans, Sanskriti, Shagun, Kahani Ghar Ghar Ki, Desh Mein Nikla HoGa Chand, have been so popular among Pakistani women that girls, housewives and elderly women alike are virtually addicted to them.

Women, who are mostly confined to their homes, keep waiting for them, and when they are on air, abandon work, glue to the screens and won't like to be disturbed. In fact, the lengthy episodes are followed by detailed discussions on storyline, characters, dresses and speculative talk on what will happen next.