Lahore/Muridke, Dec. 15: The main complex of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD), in Muridke on the outskirts of Lahore, which is linked to last month's terror attack on Mumbai, is still open four days after the UN Security Council placed the group on a terrorist list, The Times has learnt.

Pakistan claims that it ordered the closure of the JuD's facilities on Thursday under pressure from India and the United States, which consider the group a front for Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) - the militant group blamed for the Mumbai attack.

Lahore, Dec. 15: There is an urgent requirement for the Pakistan Army to improve its gear if it wants to neutralize and eliminate the Taliban from the country, says the Newsweek.

The magazine quoted top Pakistan military officials as saying that the US would need to augment supplies of this gear, as the pressure on the country was huge to crackdown on the Taliban in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks.

Lahore, dec. 15: The Taliban has killed an anti-Taliban cleric, Pir Samiullah, and his eight followers, the Daily Times quoted a private TV channel as reporting on Sunday.

Soon after the killings, the Taliban took over the Mandal Daag area in Swat from the followers of the cleric.

According to the channel, Samiullah and his followers were killed and several others injured in the Taliban attack that began late on Saturday.

The Taliban also torched the houses of Samiullah and 15 elders of his group, and kidnapped 25 of his followers.

The Taliban later launched a search operation and seized 50 rifles, a rocket launcher and others weapons from the dead cleric's followers.

Lahore, Dec. 15 : The King Edward Medical College in Lahore has been charged with having bent its rules in 1991 to admit former Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's daughter Mariam Nawaz.

Pakistan People's Party leader Munawwar Anjum leveled this charge against Sharif on Sunday in the wake of Sharif calling for the resignation of the Chief Justice of Pakistan Abdul Hameed Dogar for pushing his daughter's admission to a medical college.

Peshawar, Dec. 15: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Maulvi Omar on Sunday claimed responsibility for the recent attacks on NATO supplies.

Talking over telephone with reporters, the Daily Times quoted Omar as saying that the arson attacks on NATO supplies in Peshawar and Khyber Agency were a reaction to the United States drone attacks in the Tribal Areas.

He warned of more such attacks if the US troops did not halt their attacks on the Tribal Areas.

He said the TTP would cut the supply routes to NATO and international forces stationed in Afghanistan.

Lahore, Dec. 15 : Legal experts in Pakistan have said that the banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa cannot approach or appeal to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to overturn the sanctions imposed on it by the United Nations Security Council and the Pakistan Government.

It may be recalled that Jamaat-ud-Dawa chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed had claimed that the organization would seek the arbitration of the ICJ after the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) placed sanctions on them.