With the general elections just around the corner, the Central Police Office (CPO) has revealed a comprehensive security strategy for the Punjab province as special task forces are constituted, comprising senior officials from the intelligence, security, and law enforcing agencies and local administration. The special task forces, also called intelligence and security committees, are given the tasks to implement the Master-Plan to ward off any possible terror attempt besides providing security cover to the leading personalities, and international delegates during the elections 2013.<

Top American commander has reaffirmed the importance of the U.S.-Pakistani security relationship to ongoing operations in Afghanistan and also to regional security and stability, the U.S. embassy said Saturday. General Lloyd J. Austin III, commander of U.S. Central Command, wrapped his two-day visit to Pakistan on Saturday after a series of meetings with senior Pakistani military leaders, the U.S.

A Pakistani-born US citizen in Portland, Oregon was charged Tuesday with helping one of three suicide bombers in a 2009 attack in Pakistan that killed 30 people and injured 300 more, the Justice Department said. Reaz Qadir Khan, 48, could face life in prison if he is found guilty of the charges of "conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists." He was arrested Tuesday without incident at his Portland home, before later appearing in court to hear the charges against him, a statement said.