Karachi, Dec. 12: Keen to make domestic cricket in Pakistan more attractive, former Pakistan cricket captain and now Director General of the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Javed Miandad has announced a new format.

Miandad told a press conference here on Thursday that now domestic cricket would not be run on the basis of regions but on the basis of eight associations and eleven departments.

Islamabad, Dec. 12 : Sources in the Pakistan Government have said that Islamabad might formally ask India hand over army offcier Lt. Col. Shrikant Prasad Purohit, for undergoing a trial in a court in Pakistan for his alleged role in perpetrating the bomb blasts on the Samjhauta Express that runs between both countries.

Islamabad - An overnight airstrike, suspected to be carried out by US forces based in Afghanistan, killed at least six Islamist militants in Pakistan's South Waziristan tribal district, officials and local residents said on Friday.

A missile believed to be fired from a pilotless Predator aircraft hit a house Thursday night in Azam Warsak area some 15 kilometres west of Wana, the region's main town.

"Informants have put the death toll at six," an intelligence official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

There were no immediate US comments on the incident.

Islamabad - A Pakistani man listed as a terrorist by The United Nations Security Council on Thursday died six years ago, according to media reports Thursday.

Haji Mohammad Ashraf's name was one of four included in a list released by the Security Council Wednesday. People on the list will be subject to UN sanctions for links to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), which is suspected in last month's terrorist attacks in Mumbai.

According to a Security Council press release, Ashraf was the chief of finance of LeT.

New Delhi, Dec. 11 : Squarely laying the blame for last month’s terror attacks in Mumbai at Pakistan’s doorstep, External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee told Parliament on Thursday that,” non state actors didn’t come from the heaven and the controllers and handlers of 26/11 were in the neighboring country at the time of incident.”

“We’ll tackle terror with patience, but nobody dare attack us .We will not be provoked into war, people expect India to act to protect itself. War is not a solution,” he said.

Islamabad - A Pakistan-based charity denounced on Thursday sanctions by the United Nations Security Council levelled against it for being a front group for the terrorist organization accused of carrying out the Mumbai attacks.

Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) was included in a list of entities subject to an assets freeze, travel ban and arms embargo by the UN Security Council's al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee on Wednesday.

The organization is widely believed to be a new front for the Laskhar-e-Taiba (LeT), which Indian authorities said masterminded the November 26 Mumbai siege that killed more than 170 people.