Islamabad, Dec. 31 : Many Pakistanis still view India as their real enemy and are far less concerned about the spread of radical Islam in their midst, the Washington Post reports.

According to the paper, the country''s powerful army also appears to be more comfortable facing its conventional cross-border adversary to the east than waging a messy counter-insurgency campaign against fellow Muslims and Pakistanis on its own territory.

Islamabad - The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday that Pakistan's own probe had linked militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) with 10 fighters involved in last month's Mumbai attacks, a report which Islamabad has declined to comment on.

A Pakistani security official told the WSJ that at least one top LeT commander, Zarar Shah, has admitted a role in the Mumbai attack during interrogation.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said Shah's admission is backed up by US intercepts of a phone call between Shah and one of the attackers at the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, one of the sites of terrorist strikes that left more than 170 people dead in India's financial hub.

Lahore, Dec. 31 : The Jamhoori Watan Party chief, Talal Bugti has demanded Musharraf's arrest, so that the killers of his father, Akbar Bugti and the former Pakistan PM Benazir Bhutto, could be exposed.

Bugti said that he does not support the separatism and the movement of militancy, which started due to the policies of former President General Pervez Musharraf.

He also accused Musharraf for dividing Pakistan and bombing Balochistan with tanks and missiles.

He said the people of Balochistan were patriots, and his party's manifesto was that the Baloch people should control Baloch resources.

Peshawar, Dec. 31 : Pakistan is the second deadliest place, in the world for the press with seven out of 60 journalists having been killed here in 2008, a worldwide press freedom round-up has claimed.

"After Iraq (with 15 journalists killed), the two countries with the highest death tolls are Pakistan and the Philippines (six killed)," Paris based Reporters Without Borders
(RSF) was quoted by the Daily Times, as saying.

Islamabad, Dec 31 : A wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami organisation, Shabab-e-Milli, has issued threats to the provincial administration and owners of five star hotels and restaurants in Karachi over New Year celebrations.

The group has warned of dire consequences if they allowed "vulgar" celebrations during the New Year.

"We have requested the owners of hotels, motels and restaurants to refrain from Kharafaat (vulgar activities) during the holy month of Muharram, otherwise the Shabab-e-Milli's baton force will not hesitate in taking necessary steps," the Daily Times quoted Milli President Muhammad Yousaf Munir as saying at a press conference held in Idara Noor-e-Haq.

Karachi, Dec. 31 : Pakistan's Information and Broadcasting Minister Sherry Rehman has rejected rumours of differences existing between President Asif Ali Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani.

Rehman said such news is being falsely circulated by certain mischievous elements.

"There are absolutely no differences," The Daily Times quoted Sherry Rehman, as saying.

She added that the President and the Prime Minister were working seamlessly together.