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LAHORE - The coalition forces have forced out the Taliban out of territory they had held for up to five years and many of them had escaped to sanctuaries in Pakistan, Gen David H Petraeus, the top American commander in Afghanistan, said on Tuesday, according to New York Times. He said coalition forces would focus in the coming months on a strategy called "defence and depth", blocking the Taliban's their return through strategic border regions that the insurgents traditionally used,

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital Territory administration has finalised all arrangements to send the body of slain minister Shahbaz Bhatti to his ancestral village of Khushpur, Faisalabad by ambulance on Friday morning. A special security squad of Islamabad police will escort the ambulance and once it enters Punjab, the provincial government will also provide it extra security.
The federal government has assured Bhatti's family that it would airlift the body in case it rained.

KASUR - Some unidentified thieves excavated five graves in Bullhey Shah Graveyard and took away three bodies. When some people went to the graveyard, they found the graves open and the dead bodies missing. According to eyewitnesses, the graves of women were also found excavated. Later, it was learnt that one grave was the mother of Amanat, a petrol pump owner, who was buried 15days ago.
The second grave was an aunt of policeman Munir Shah who was buried four days ago. The

ISLAMABAD - A delegation of ANP senators met Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Friday, asking him to tell his ministers that senators were not someone to be trifled with.
"We have told the prime minister that his ministers do not give us due respect and do not take the business of the Upper House seriously. They do not consider the Senate worth-while," Haji Adeel told Pakistan Today after the meeting.
Adeel said the delegation asked Gilani to announce a development

ISLAMABAD: Attorney General Anwarul Haq on Wednesday submitted a reply in the Supreme Court Registrar's Office on behalf of chiefs of intelligence agencies, who said they or the agencies they were heading could not be made respondents in constitutional petitions.
The heads of the intelligence agencies also said in the reply that the 11 prisoners who went missing from Adiala Jail were not in their custody, adding that petitions filed by legal heirs of the missing prisoners or