News Desk: A Pakistani judicial commission, which is probing the Memogate scandal, claimed that former ambassador to the US, Husain Haqqani, was behind the mysterious memo that sought help from US fearing a military coup.

News Desk: The US drone strike reportedly killed Al Qaeda's deputy leader Abu Yahya al-Libi on Tuesday. However, the White House did not confirm how and where he was killed.

News Desk: The Supreme Court of Pakistan suspended Interior Minister Rehman Malik from Senate while hearing a petition on the dual nationality on Monday. The order is a setback for the minister.

News Desk: All 153 people on board a commercial plane, which crashed into buildings in a densely populated district of Nigeria's main city of Lagos on Sunday, have been killed.

News Desk: Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak was sentenced to life imprisonment by a court in Cairo on Saturday. He was convicted of killing the protesters during last year's uprising.

News Desk: After a long battle, the former Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney has finally clinched the Republican nominations for the race to US President. He will take on incumbent Barack Obama.

News Desk: Pakistan successfully test-fired its indigenously developed nuclear capable Hatf IX missile (Nasr) with a range of 60 km on Tuesday. It comes a day after India carried out a test of two Aaksh missiles.

News Desk: More than 120 school girls and three female teachers were rushed to the hospital in Afghanistan on Wednesday after coming contact with poison, which was plotted by the Taliban.

News Desk: Pakistani doctor, Shakil Afridi, who reportedly helped the CIA to hunt down Al Qaeda chief Osama Bin Laden, was sentenced to 33 years in jail on treason charges.

News Desk: The United States Senate showed its tough attitude by approving a package of new economic sanctions on Iran to restrict it from making nuclear bomb. It comes just days ahead of the meeting between major countries and Tehran in Baghdad.