International news for the week

Saturday

Peshawar: Militants shot dead prominent religious scholar and Swat Islamic University Vice-Chancellor Farooq Khan and his aide in Pakistan's troubled northwest.

Peshawar: Two US drones struck a terrorist hideout in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region of Pakistan, killing at least nine militants and injuring three others, officials says.

Peshawar: Pakistan's blockade of a key land route to Afghanistan disrupted crucial NATO fuel supplies for a fourth consecutive day, leaving scores of trucks and tankers stranded at the frontier.

Sunday

London: Some Pakistan-based terrorists who were plotting a Mumbai-style attack on London and other European cities have been identified by investigators here who matched their voices in intercepted calls with a secret database.

Washington: Pakistan-based terrorists plotting to carry out Mumbai-style killings in European cities. Had on their sight landmarks like the Eiffel Tower, the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, as well as Berlin's Central Station, a media report says.

Monday

Dhaka: A Pakistani national suspected to be the chief coordinator of the Pakistan-based banned militant outfit LeT in Bangladesh was arrested along with two of his associates in the capital, police says.

Stockholm: Russian-born scientists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov shared the Nobel Prize in physics for "groundbreaking experiments" with a new material expected to play a large role in electronics.

Tuesday

Islamabad: Stunned by Pervez Musharraf's admission that Pakistan had trained militant groups to fight in Kashmir. Islamabad rubbishes the former military ruler's statement as "baseless".

Washington: Former military ruler Pervez Musharraf admits that Pakistan had trained underground militant groups to fight in Kashmir, the first such admission by a top leader of the country.

Wednesday

Beijing: Amid a raging diplomatic row between China and Japan, the Prime Ministers of the two nations had a 'chance meeting' on the sidelines of a summit in Brussels, and decided to hold high-level talks to improve ties.

Islamabad: Suspected Taliban militants attacks and set afire 20 oil tankers carrying supplies for NATO forces in southwest Pakistan, killing one man in the third major assault on supply vehicles in two weeks.

Thursday

Washington: Slamming Republicans for their two-point economic plan which would cut spending on education, President Barack Obama says the US is in "a fight for future" with countries like India and China which are not slashing their budget in the key sector detrimental to shaping lives of millions of students.

Washington: As President Barack Obama prepares to visit India next month, the US hopes that India and Pakistan can address and resolve the "important" Kashmir issue bilaterally.

Friday

Islamabad: In a bid to defuse tensions over closing of a vital supply route for NATO forces in Afghanistan, the US apologises to Pakistan for a "terrible" cross-border helicopter attack that killed Pakistani soldiers near the Pak -Afghan border.

Washington: The Pentagon concedes that some elements of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence is supporting the terrorist networks in the country, thus undermining the war against terrorism by the US-led international forces in the region.