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Most of the papers have in-depth reports on what bloody onslaught".

It describes how pro-Gaddafi forces launched an offensive in the east of Libya to try to regain ground.

It says it seemed a hopeless cause, yet the rebels held the line and even appeared to push Gaddafi's forces back.

- claiming that the Libyan leader's counter-attack was a flop and that his forces fled with their tails between their legs.

Nevertheless, in the east got a wake-up call.

And "is this the start of civil war?" as correspondent Martin Chulov describes a "decisive day" in the conflict.

Images of the conflict in Libya fill much of

It is partly obscured by a black box containing a defiant phrase from Colonel Gaddafi's speech on Wednesday which says "to the last man".

Violence in Pakistan also preoccupies many of the papers after the murder of a Christian government minister, Shahbaz Bhatti.

He had campaigned against the country's blasphemy laws.

The and religious extremism now pervades and that it is a nation on the verge of democratic collapse.

The government who it says has countered fanaticism with feebleness.

There's praise for Ireland's cricketers after they defeated England in one of the a biggest upsets in the World Cup.

"England fall to the while performance "shambolic".

The of a snarling, two-fingered salute to the mainstream.

And emphatically that they deserve to play with the big boys.