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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.

'Decisive day'

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".

Religious extremism

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.

Cricketing victory

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.