Lahore, Nov 2 : The dead body of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein who was executed around two years ago, was stabbed at least six times (after being executed), the head guard at the former president’s tomb in north of Baghdad has claimed. The guard was one of the 300 persons who helped bury the corpse.

“There were six stab wounds on his body. Four of the wounds were on the former president’s front and two on his back,” Pakistani daily the Daily Times quoted Talal Misrab (45), the head guard, as saying in an interview with The Times.

He also said there was an injury to his face, and that 300 other people witnessed the injuries when the body was buried in the early hours of the morning, the day after Saddam was executed.

Sydney, Nov 1 : Senior batsman of Pakistan cricket team Younus Khan has said that cricket in Pakistan would be destroyed if foreign team do not tour the country.

In an interview to an Australian newspaper, Younus Khan said that Australia did not tour Pakistan since 1998 for security reasons.

They refused to participate in an important event like the Champions Trophy and insisted to shift the series to neutral grounds.

These decisions are going to be causes of destruction of cricket in Pakistan.

Islamabad, Nov 1 : Pakistan’s new cricket coach Intikhab Alam has said that playing top level domestic cricket is more important than dull paced camps.

He plans to prepare the national probables for the important Indian series following the same line.

Intikhab said that the forthcoming Test series against India would be an important one and there was no better way to prepare for the series than to put the probables into competitive cricket.

Tehran, Nov 1 : External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Saturday said that New Delhi is working with Islamabad to resolve outstanding issues and insisted that the 7.4-billion dollar Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) gas pipeline project can be finalised through cooperation of all the three countries.

Lahore, Nov 1 : Pakistani investigators have stated that members of the banned Harkatul Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI) were involved in the Marriott Hotel suicide attack on September 20 that killed more than 70 people.

Pakistan’s Samaa TV quoted investigators as saying that the suspects arrested after the suicide attack in Islamabad belonged to the HUJI’s Saifullah group.

London, Nov 1 : Amnesty International has stated that Pakistan should declare the dismissal of judges in 2007 as illegal, while suggesting Islamabad to take more measures to set right its poor human rights record.

Amnesty International’s Asia-Pacific Director, Sam Zarifi said, “The new civilian government which replaced Musharraf has taken some steps to improve on Pakistan’s poor human rights record, but it could and should do more, starting immediately with declaring the 2007 dismissal of judges illegal.”