'Safe? Fiddlesticks! There is no safe. Mr Lavington is an intelligent man. You will see, he will have devised a hiding-place much more intelligent than a safe. A safe is the first thing everyone looks for.'

Yalong is a tributary to Jin Sha Jiang (Yangtze) and Ertan Project is situated 30 km above the confluence of the two rivers, some 40 km from the city of Panzhihua.

Hold on. We're still early days on this.

The Red Mosque enjoyed decades of government backing but lately had become a source of embarrassment for General Musharraf as its leaders used their students to carry out Taliban-style antivice campaigns. Mr. Haq told the privately owned Geo television network on Tuesday night that it had become a sanctuary for militants from other parts of the country.