Lahore, Aug 28 : Pakistan will be an unfortunate country if a person like PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari became the next President, because he will be a “security risk” for the country, the country’s cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has said.

Drawing a parallel between Zardari and former president Pervez Musharraf, he said that the former had no right to exonerate the latter from his Nov 7 unconstitutional acts and slaughter of people (at Lal Masjid) in pursuance of the US’ agenda.

Washington, Aug 28 : PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has said that now since he had moved out of the PPP-led federal coalition, his party would sit in the Opposition if the country’s Prime Minister Gilani obtained a fresh vote of confidence, and would vote against it.

In a telephonic interview with a US weekly, Nawaz said that if a patch up had been done between the PPP and his party, then a PML-N-PML-Q alliance was also possible. PML-Q, often referred to as the King’s Party, supports former Pervez Musharraf.

Islamabad, Aug 28 : After nearly five months since the new federal government assumed power in Islamabad, the PPP last evening finally conceded that the Nov 3 “unconstitutional” steps taken by former president Pervez Musharraf had been validated by the Supreme Court, and that the National Assembly could not reverse them.

Washington, Aug 28 : In order to chalk out a strategy to combat the escalating violence along the Pak-Afghan border, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff secretly convened a secret meeting of the most senior American and Pakistani commanders on an aircraft carrier in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday.

The gathering aboard the Abraham Lincoln was less confrontational in tone, aides said. “It was one of those meetings to help clear up the situation, get an understanding of the issues, and look for a way forward,” said a senior Pakistani officer privy to what was discussed at the meeting.

Islamabad, Aug 28 : A key ruling federal coalition

Karachi, Aug 28 : The CNG (compressed natural gas) is sold in Pakistan at more than double the rate of what it is sold at in India, despite the fact that the former is a producer of the fuel and the latter is an importer, said Sindh Bar Council’s (SBC) Human Rights Committee chairman, Adv Aqil Lodhi in a press statement.

He said while in Pakistan CNG is sold at Rs 22 per kg, it is sold at Rs 44.50 in India, and also called for a reduction of the price of CNG to Rs 27.50 per kg.