Islamabad, Jan 22 : The Pakistan People's Party is on verge of quitting the Punjab Government in order to form its own government in the province with the help of the PML-Q, leaving main coalition partner PML-N in the lurch.

Sources said the PPP is up for making its own government with the help of the PML-Q and its dissidents by toppling the PML-N led government.

They further said the PPP had also launched efforts to secure support from within PML-N ranks.

The Nation quoted sources as saying that the PPP top leadership has approved a plan that envisages punishing the PML-N by uprooting its government by March 2009.

Madrid, Jan 21 : Six Pakistani nationals have been arrested on suspicion of tax fraud and investigation is going on whether they diverted funds to Islamic terror groups

A foreign news agency quoted the Spanish police as saying that they have arrested six Pakistanis on suspicion of tax fraud and investigating their links in fund transfer to Islamic terror groups.

The Civil Guard said in a statement the alleged fraud was carried out through telecommunications companies and officials are investigating whether any money went to "armed groups."

Islamabad, Jan. 21 : It's a matter of great concern if a heavy deployment of army and police fails to provide protection to the people of the Swat valley, and the recent attack on schools raises quite a few questions about the Pakistan government's seriousness towards tackling the extremist menace, a editorial in the Dawn says.

Karachi, Jan 21: PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif has decided to tour the PPP's strongholds in Sindh in February, setting aside an understanding reached under the Murree Declaration that the later would not interfere in the political matters of Punjab, while the former would keep itself away from the political matters of Sindh.

Sharif has decided to tour Sindh in the first week of February in connection with the party's political campaign, sources said.

They said the PML-N developed grievances over the judges' issue and the PPP's style of politics in Punjab, and believe that the PPP is directly interfering in political matters of the state.

Islamabad, Jan 21: The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) has warned against disqualification of its top leadership, saying that neither the people of the country nor the party will accept any controversial judgment handed in by the PCO judges.

"Any controversial decision at this point of time would mean another judicial crisis and chaos in the country, the responsibility of which would lie on the Government," PML-N Central Secretary Information Ahsan Iqbal told reporters here.

Karachi, Jan 21 : Pakistan has accepted the request of Bangladesh to add one more Twenty20 match to their tour starting in the middle of next month, PCB's Chief Operating Officer Saleem Altaf has said.

The PCB official said that Pakistan would play two T20 matches and five ODI on the Bangladesh tour. The team will leave for Dhaka on March 11, and the details of the tour would be finalised soon, he added.

Altaf also disclosed that he would soon be visiting Dubai to inspect facilities at Dubai Sports City which is one of the neutral venues being discussed between Pakistan and Australia to play at an off shore series against Pakistan.