Islamabad, Nov 24: As part of confidence-building measures (CBMs) between Pakistan and India, Islamabad has reportedly decided to free 101 Indian prisoners, including 99 fishermen.

Lahore, Nov 24: An Indian team headed by its Indus Waters Commissioner is scheduled to arrive in Pakistan this Saturday, and would visit Head Marala the following day in connection with Pakistan’s demand for compensation for the 200,000-acre feet shortfall in Chenab river water caused by the filling of Baglihar Dam this year, said Pakistan’s Indus Waters Commissioner Syed Jamaat Ali Shah.

Addressing a seminar at the Lahore press club last evening on threats to the country’s agriculture sector, he said that under the Indus Basin Treaty, India could build dams for storing 2.85 million acre feet of water for power generation on the rivers entering Pakistan but it could not utilise it.

Islamabad, Nov 24: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that the US missile strikes were “undermining Pakistan Army’s strategy” to control the situation in the Tribal Areas, and that some suicide attacks were a “direct result of US attacks”.

He said Pakistan did not have an agreement with the US to allow it to carry out attacks on Al Qaeda and Taliban targets inside Pakistan.

Karachi, Nov 23 : The Indian cricket board (BCCI) has taken a serious note of the comments made by former Pakistan cricket captain Javed Miandad, who was a couple of days ago appointed as the new Director General of the PCB, accusing the BCCI of ‘bullying tactics’.

In one of the interviews after taking up the new assignment, Miandad said that the PCB was under a lot of pressure from the public and the media to include breakaway ICL players in the national team.

He also accused the BCCI of ‘bullying tactics’ which have caused players to suffer.

According to sources, an unidentified BCCI official expressed the Board’s annoyance over Miandad’s comments with a senior PCB official during a telephonic conversation on Saturday.

New Delhi, Nov 23 : Pakistan pavilion at the India''s biggest ongoing trade expo, ‘India International Trade Fair’ does brisk business as visitors throng the pavilion, famous for its jade and marble furnishings and decorative items.

Pakistan, which is the partner country at the Trade Fair this year, has 123 stalls, showcasing items ranging from cosmetics, food and clothes to furnishings.

The pavilion attracts hundreds of visitors every year, and this year too there is no decline in the numbers.

Even the present economic crisis has not dampened the spirits, as more and more people make a beeline for the Pakistan pavilion.

Decorative items made from marble, Onyx, Jade are the most sought after at the expo.

Karachi, Nov 23 : A young girl in Pakistan who had recently converted to Islam was gang-raped in front of her younger sister last evening in Karachi by a group of men from whom she had sought help obtaining legal permission to live in a shelter home, the police said.

Quoting the two girls, a police official said that they were Christians and came from Gujranwala to Karachi on November 17 to convert to Islam.

The girl’s decision was influenced by a positive impression of the religious environment in the school where she was teaching. They both decided to convert, but they feared for their lives and did not tell their parents or relatives anything.