Lahore, Jan 5: Pakistan Occupied Kashmir Prime Minister Sardar Attique Ahmad Khan has said that a four-point formula proposed by former President Pervez Musharraf for resolving the Kashmir dispute was based on wisdom, a private TV channel has reported.

Attique supported Musharraf's formula, saying there should be a phased withdrawal of the Indian Army from Jammu and Kashmir and a simultaneous withdrawal of the Pakistan Army from POK.

He said local defence forces should replace the armies of India and Pakistan in both parts of Kashmir.

Islamabad, Jan 5 : Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi ruled out the possibility of handing over any suspects of the Mumbai terror attacks to India, and said that tension with India has reduced, but is not over yet.

"Friends and important nations in the region and beyond have played a positive role to defuse the tension," Qureshi said on Sunday.

Qureshi again ruled out the possibility of handing over any suspects, a day after the Indian prime minister asked Islamabad to hand over those behind the attacks.

Lahore, Jan 5 : United States vice-president-elect Joseph Biden will arrive in Pakistan on a two-day visit this week on January 9 to defuse the tension between Pakistan and India after the Mumbai terror attacks.

A private TV channel quoted diplomatic sources as saying that a high-level congressional delegation would also accompany Biden.

The delegation would meet President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to discuss the war on terror in Pakistan, Pak-India relations and a 15 billion dollars aid package for Islamabad.

Islamabad  - At least seven people, including five policemen, were killed and more than two dozen injured Sunday when a bomb blast targeted a police vehicle in north-west Pakistan, a security official said.

The explosion in Dera Ismail Khan district of Pakistan's North- Western Frontier Province destroyed the vehicle.

"There was, first, a low-intensity blast, perhaps carried out with a hand-grenade, that injured three people outside a restaurant," a security official said on condition of anonymity.

London - British forces have taken four key Taliban positions during an 18-day offensive in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province in which 100 Taliban fighters and five British soldiers were killed, the London Defence Ministry announced Sunday.

The ministry said the action began already on December 7 and involved some 1,500 British troops plus Danish and Estonian soldiers of the NATO-led International Security and Assistance Force (ISAF) plus Afghan government forces.