Islamabad, April 19 (DPA) Two separate bombings Saturday killed at least 31 people, including 25 soldiers, in Pakistan’s restive northwestern region, police officials and media reports said.

A suicide car bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a security wall around an army post when a military convoy was passing by in Doaba town in the restive Hangu district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

Dubai, April 17 (IANS) International Cricket Council (ICC) Friday decided to shift the 2011 World Cup from Pakistan due to “uncertainty in security situation”.

“It is a regrettable decision given the passion the people of Pakistan have for cricket. But our number one priority is to create certainty and allow us to press on with the work necessary to deliver a safe, secure and successful event,” ICC president David Morgan said in a statement.

Islamabad, Apr 16 (ANI): Pakistan’s Public Accounts Committee chief Nisar Ali Khan has said that the PAC had found a misappropriation of billions of rupees in 2005-06.

Quetta, Apr. 14 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister’s Interior Affairs Advisor Rehman Malik on Tuesday announced a cash reward of Rs. five million to someone who could pinpoint the culprits who had assassinated three Baloch nationalist leaders.

Islamabad, April 13 (IANS) On a day of fast moving developments, Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari late Monday approved the imposition of Sharia laws in parts of the country’s restive northwest, including Swat, in return for a controversial deal with the Taliban for laying down their arms.

Zardari signed the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation after parliament approved the measure earlier Monday, Geo TV quoted senior North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour as saying.

Islamabad, April 12 (DPA) Scores of Islamist militants destroyed at least 10 lorries Sunday in north-western Pakistan in an attack on a truck terminal used for transporting supplies to US and NATO troops in Afghanistan, police said.

Three private guards were injured when insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades at the depot on the edge of Peshawar, the capital of troubled North-West Frontier Province.

London, Apr. 10 (ANI): A Pakistani student, who was mistaken for an al-Qaeda suspect and taken into a custody briefly on Thursday in northern England, has recounted the horror of being arrested.

Islamabad, April 7 (IANS) Terming the hanging of late Pakistani leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto as a “judicial murder”, Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani Tuesday said the government was consulting legal experts on whether his trial could be reopened.

“It is my duty to apprise the nation that the murder of Bhutto was a judicial murder and we are consulting the legal experts and will get back to you,” the official APP news agency quoted Gilani as saying.