The governing coalition of Pakistan split on Monday after Nawaz Sharif, former Pakistani Prime Minister, pulled his party, the Pakistan Muslim League (N) (PML-N), out of the government.

With impeachment staring at his face, Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf resigned on Monday ending a bitter confrontation with the ruling coalition but questions remained whether he was headed for a safe haven elsewhere.

Condemning the bomb attacks in Bangalore and Ahmedabad, Pakistan Premier Yousuf Raza Gilani has described them as "dastardly acts of senseless violence" against innocent people.

Samad Khurram, Harvard student and an active SAC member refuses to receive award from US Ambassador in protest against killings of Pakistani people.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has threatened to send troops into Pakistan to confront militants who have been launching cross-border attacks.

In a major set back to embattled President Pervez Musharraf, the Pakistan People's Party-led government has said it will "have to leave" the "unpopular" former military ruler if it is to survive in power.

At least eight people were feared killed and five others injured in a blast outside the Danish Embassy, located in a high-security area in the heart of the Pakistani capital on Monday.

About 99 Indian prisoners, including 96 fishermen, who were freed from Pakistan jails on Friday, were handed over to authorities of India at Wagha border in Amritsar.

Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is in Dubai for urgent talks with coalition partners on the fate of Pakistan's sacked judges, the month-old government's deadline to reinstate the judges ends on Wednesday.

The party of slain former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is trying to convince Islamist politicians to build a stronger coalition against Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf.

A Pakistani official says an al-Qaida militant has been arrested in connection with a suicide bomb attack that targeted former prime minister Benazir Bhutto last October.

Pakistan's Taliban militants say they are willing to talk with the parties expected to form the country's new government, but only if military operations against militants and terrorists end in the tribal regions.