Islamabad, Dec. 7: Former Inter-Services Intelligence chief Lt. General (retired) Hamid Gul is said on the United States most wanted list for his alleged links to the Taliban and al-Qaeda networks, as per a two-page unsigned secret document marked as releasable to the Government of Pakistan.

According to The News, a source speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gul had been charged with providing financial assistance to Kabul-based criminal groups and involvement in spotting, assessing, recruiting and training young men from seminaries.

The source further said that L. General Gul has also been accused of assisting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in developing high-tech weapons.

Lahore, Dec. 7: Suggesting that there is enough evidence of former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) officers involvement in the planning and execution of last week''s terror attacks in Mumbai, Arizona Senator and Republican presidential candidate in 2008 John McCain has warned that if Pakistan does not act fast to arrest them, India will conduct air strikes on select targets in Pakistan.

New York, Dec. 7 : For any lasting peace, India and Pakistan would have to settle their dispute over Kashmir, says a New York Times editorial, adding that Pakistan must come to terms with the fact, that it had no option but to root out the terrorist network from its soil.

"The leaders of Pakistan''s military and intelligence services must finally realize that the extremists pose a clear and present threat to their own country''s survival," it adds.

Though Pakistan has fiercely denied any role in the terrorist attacks on Mumbai, the NYT says that any act of terrorism is horrifying, and the potential aftermath even more so.

Rawalpindi, Dec. 7 : A U. S. bipartisan commission has warned that the next attacks on America might originate from Pakistan''s volatile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), adding that there is an urgent need for Washington to secure Pakistan''s biological and nuclear weapons.

The report, which was due to be presented to U. S. President Bush on Wednesday, says: "Indeed, many government officials and outside experts believe that the next terrorist attack against the US is likely to originate from within the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in Pakistan."

Chilyari/Samba Sector/Londi/Hiranagar, Dec 7: Farmers of Kathua district that shares borders with Pakistan said they face a bleak future after relations soured between India and Pakistan in the wake of the Mumbai terror strikes.

Although both countries have denied reports about mobilization of troops on their borders, residents of the border areas say that hostilities between the two neighbours cast a shadow on their lives.

Farmers in the region said they feared they would have to abandon their crops if hostilities flared up.