ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Sunday said his country has asked the US to share its drone technology so as to enable Pakistan's military to hit more militant hideouts on its own.

KOLKATA - West Bengal Governor M.K. Narayanan Sunday said intellectuals should not support the Maoist ideology and actions.

KOLKATA - West Bengal governor M.K. Narayanan Sunday condemned the killing of three people in West Bengal's West Midnapore district by suspected Maoist guerrillas, terming it "most unfortunate."

ISLAMABAD - "Colonel Imam", a former officer of Pakistan's Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) abducted in March 2010, was Sunday killed by the Pakistani Taliban in North Waziristan, media reports said.

PESHAWAR - A Pakistani insurgent group has executed a former senior officer of the country's top intelligence organisation who once trained Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Omar, intelligence and rebel sources said Sunday.