LONDON – Pakistan’s political leaders must strive for democracy, which would stand as a lasting memorial to assassinated opposition leader Benazir Bhutto, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) After a wave of freezing cold weather covered a majority of Iranian city, Turkmenistan misused the opportunity and halted gas supplies to Iran to double the price of exports to the Islamic Republic, an informed source in the Oil Ministry said here on Monday.

TEHRAN (Fars News Agency) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a message to Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir, extended his congratulations to the Sudanese president, government and nation on the country’s national day.