Pak asks USA to vacate airbases
Washington, January 11
Much to the disquiet of the USA Pakistani forces have moved its air assets and bombers to two of their four airbases given to the US military for war in Afghanistan, following heightening tension on the Indo-Pak border.

USA steps up vigil
New York, January 11
Amidst reports of rising tension along border between India and Pakistan and growing chances of a military conflict, the USA has intensified surveillance in the region for evidence whether the two countries were deploying their nuclear arsenal.

Pak may ban extremist groups
Islamabad, January 11
Religious extremists and sectarian groups may be banned and their fund-raising for the cause of jehad blocked, the Minister of Religious and Minorities Affairs Mahmud Ahmed Ghazi hinted.

Parliament attackers' bodies buried
New Delhi, January 11
After 28 days of lying unclaimed in the hospital’s mortuary, the bodies of the five slain terrorists during the December 13 attack on Parliament House were today buried amid tight security in a graveyard near Delhi Gate here this evening.

Blast in high court complex
Srinagar, January 11
A powerful grenade, aimed at a security vehicle, missed the target and exploded in the compound of the heavily-guarded Jammu and Kashmir High Court here today, official sources said. Elsewhere in the state, six militants and a civilian were among seven persons killed in two encounters, they said.

Stung, Balian quits SAD To contest as Independent from Sangrur Sangrur, January 11 Protesting against the allotment of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) ticket from Sangrur to Mr Sanmukh Singh Mokha, an Akali leader from Sunam, Mr Ranjit Singh Balian, Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Punjab, and MLA from Sangrur, today announced his resignation from the post of Minister of State as well as the primary membership of the party (SAD). Badal kills two birds with one stone Punjab page