Japan should invest more in Pakistan, President Asif Ali Zardari has said. Zardari made the point when he met Japan’s deputy foreign minister Koro Bessho here on Thursday, the Associated Press of Pakistan reported.

Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik has said seven suspects involved in the 2008 Mumbai attack would “not be spared”, and the country was “very serious” about the trial of those involved in the gruesome strike.

In his 40s and an active politician, veteran batsman Sanath Jayasuriya on Thursday returned to the Sri Lankan One-day and Twenty20 cricket side after more than a year for the series against England later this month.

Pakistan’s jails have become breeding grounds for extremists because outlawed groups like Tehrik-e-Taliban have taken their “ideological campaign” to prisoners, according to an adviser to Premier Yousaf Raza Gilani.

Pakistan today said that it has put the trial of seven Mumbai attacks suspects on the fast track and any delay in proceedings is due to India’s failure to decide on a request to allow a judicial commission to interview key officials there.

US President Barack Obama has spoken to Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and expressed his “sorrow” over recent civilian deaths in Nato air strikes in the war-torn country.

The call record of slain Pakistani journalist Syed Saleem Shahzad’s cellular phone has been erased, with the log of the 18 days before his abduction and murder being wiped out from the system, a media report said on Tuesday.

Defence secretary Robert Gates, wrapping up a final visit to Afghanistan as Pentagon chief, said on Tuesday that US-led forces are on the verge of securing a “decisive blow” against the Taliban.

Militants targeted a bus stop and an army-run bakery in bomb attacks in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, killing 25 people and injuring about 50, officials said.

PCB chairman Ijaz Butt has expressed disappointment over interference of political functionaries into the ongoing dispute between the board and former skipper Shahid Afridi, saying the act could damage Pakistan cricket.