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11 killed, 68 hurt in Lahore suicide car bombing
( 08-Mar-2010 )
Lahore: Eleven people were killed and 68 injured when a bomber rammed a car stuffed with explosives into a building housing an investigative agency in this Pakistani city, the police said.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building, located in the upmarket residential Model Town neighbourhood, .... |
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Pakistani cricketers pay tribute to victims of Lahore attack
( 03-Mar-2010 )
Lahore: Pakistan's cricket community paid tribute to the victims of last year's terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team here.
On the first anniversary of the deadly incident Tuesday, Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) announced it would bear the expenses for the education of the children .... |
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Police arrests 1000 in Pakistan for flying kites
( 21-Feb-2010 )
Lahore: Police in Pakistan's Punjab province have launched a massive crackdown on people selling and flying kites and made over 1,000 arrests after a local group announced it would observe the Basant festival in the traditional manner by flying kites.
The traditional practice of flying kites du .... |
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'Lahore fashion week a befitting reply to terrorists'
( 21-Feb-2010 )
Lahore: The Lahore Fashion Week, which brought together 32 designers from across the country and saw top fashion celebrities in attendance, was a befitting response to terrorists who want to enforce the culture of fear in Pakistan, a leading fashion designer has said.
Mahmood Bhatti told the News I .... |
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Zardari exempt from prosecution: Gilani
( 23-Jan-2010 )
Lahore: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani Friday said President Asif Ali Zardari was exempt from prosecution in any corruption case according to the constitution, setting up the possibility of further confrontation with the judiciary.
Zardari was exempt in accordance with Article 248 of constitutio .... |
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Pakistan's election panel chief stopped from visiting India
( 23-Jan-2010 )
Lahore: The Pakistani government Saturday barred the chief election commissioner (CEC) and the panel's secretary from visiting India to protest the snubbing of the country's cricketers at the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction.
The CEC, Justice (retd) Hamid Ali Mirza, and panel secretary I .... |
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No confrontation with anyone: Zardari
( 18-Jan-2010 )
Lahore: Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari Monday reiterated that he was not in confrontation with any institution of the state and urged all stakeholders to work together for the good of the country.
Zardari expressed these views while talking to Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at the Governor .... |
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Lahore court hears plea to bar Zardari, Nawaz
( 21-Dec-2009 )
Lahore: The Lahore High Court Monday issued notices on a petition that has sought a bar on President Asif Ali Zardari, former president Farooq Leghari, former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and 19 others from holding public office for transferring their assets to foreign countries.
Issuing the notices .... |
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Pakistani court indicts seven LeT operatives for 26/11 attacks
( 25-Nov-2009 )
A Rawapindi court Wednesday indicted seven operatives of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terror group, including its commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, for their alleged role in the 26/11 Mumbai attacks.
The Anti-Terrorism Court of Muhammad Akram Awan, who is conducting the trial in the Adiala Jail her .... |
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Pakistani court seeks report on US agency Black Water
( 20-Nov-2009 )
Lahore: The Lahore High Court has sought a detailed reply from the government on an application alleging that US security agency Black Water was indulging in illegal activities in Pakistan and had a hand in the recent bomb blasts in Peshawar.
Holding there was possibility that Black Water was behi .... |
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Who will win the war in Pakistan?
( 20-Oct-2009 )
Thousands of troops are all set to launch a major military offensive against the increasingly aggressive Taliban in a do-or-die war that appears to have united Pakistan like never before against the Islamist outlaws.
As Islamabad, Lahore and Peshawar still reel from the spate of .... |
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36 die as Taliban hits Lahore, blasts rock Pakistan cities
( 15-Oct-2009 )
Pakistan Thursday vowed revenge after the Taliban laid siege to Lahore city with audacious and simultaneous attacks on three police establishments that killed 25 people, including 10 of the attackers. Suicide bombers claimed 11 more lives elsewhere in the country.
An unknown number of armed me .... |
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19 die as Pakistan Army HQ siege ends, 39 hostages freed
( 11-Oct-2009 )
Pakistani troops stormed the army headquarters here at dawn Sunday to end a siege by Islamists, with the stunning two-day drama leaving 19 people dead and the country bruised.
The commandos freed 39 hostages following fierce fighting that ended the most audacious assault on the Pakistani milit .... |
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