Lahore, Nov 23 : The US has advised its nationals against unnecessary travel to Pakistan, reported a TV channel in Pakistan.

Islamabad, Nov 23 : A redrawn map of South Asia, first circulated as a theoretical exercise in some American neoconservative circles, shows Pakistan truncated, reduced to an elongated sliver of land with the big bulk of India to the east, and an enlarged Afghanistan to the west.

It is learnt to have sent jitters down the spine of the Pakistani elites. It has fueled a belief among Pakistanis, including members of the armed forces, that what the US really wants is the breakup of Pakistan, the only Muslim country with nuclear arms, said an article in the New York Times.

Islamabad, Nov 23 : Pakistani intelligence agency, the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has reportedly decided to disband its ‘political wing’, which for the last over three decades, had been actively involved in monitoring and managing political activities inside and outside the government.

The move is expected to have far reaching effects on the country’s politics and democratic set-up, reported the Dawn.

Not only the ‘political wing’ was being disbanded, the officials working there have been given other assignments linked to the agency’s original role of counter-intelligence, the paper quoted a reliable source as saying.

Peshawar, Nov 23 : In the recent months, especially after September when the Pakistan military launched a hot pursuit policy against the Taliban militants, the Pakistani military has sought to turn the local tribesmen’s anger against the Taliban.

Over the past couple of months, the Pakistani military has raised tribal militias, known as lashkars, and given them license to kill militants in Bajaur and several other tribal zones. In addition to artillery and logistics support, they also would be given Chinese-made weapons, said an article in the Washington Times.

Islamabad  - A fugitive British militant was among victims of a missile attack believed carried out by a US pilotless aircraft Saturday on a militant hideout in Pakistan's restive tribal region along the border with Afghanistan, Pakistani media reports said.

The attack killed five people and injured five more, Pakistani intelligence officials said. Local media reports said Rashid Rauf and another al-Qaeda terrorist, were killed.

Rauf, a British citizen of Pakistani origin, was once suspected of involvement in an alleged plot to blow up trans-Atlantic jetliners, and had been on the run after escaping Pakistani custody.

Islamabad  - A Taliban attack targeting a police check post and a bomb blast at a Sunni Muslim mosque on Saturday killed at least six people in Pakistan's restive North- Western Frontier Province (NWFP), officials said.

Three policemen were killed and one injured when Islamic militants raided on a security post at 3:45 am in the Lora Pull area of Bannu district, about 200 kilometres south of the provincial capital, Peshawar.

"Around two dozen or more Taliban besieged the post and fired several rockets at it," said police officer Farid Khan. "Our officers offered tough resistance but they were outnumbered by the militants."