Pakistan has tried to distance itself from the offer by one of its cabinet ministers to pay anyone who kills the maker of the anti-Islam film.

DEMOCRATIC presidential candidate Barack Obama yesterday said he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists even without local permission if warranted — an attempt to show strength when his chief rival has described his foreign policy skills as naive.

The entire Pakistani squash team was forced to withdraw from the Irish Squash Open after they failed to obtain visas, it emerged today.