8 dead in Lahore blast Deccan Chronicle 8 dead in Lahore blast | Eight people were killed and 45 injured on Monday when a suicide bomber struck at a building housing an investigative agency in this Pakistani city, police said. | The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building, located in the upmarket residential Model Town neighbourhood, ...
Suicide bomb kills 11 in Lahore The Times | A suicide car bomb attack on a police intelligence unit in the eastern Pakistan city of Lahore killed at least 11 people and wounded scores more during the morning rush hour today. | The attack on the Federal Investigation Agency broke what had been a relative lull in major violence in Pakistan. I...
US aid group attacked in NW Pakistan; 6 dead Zeenews Islamabad: Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of a US-based Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, police and the or...
Pakistan opts out of C'Wealth boxing C'ship Mumbai Mirror | New Delhi: Pakistan has joined Australia, Canada and Ghana in pulling out of the fifth Commonwealth Boxing Championships starting here March 12. Pakistan, which was to send a full-fledged 10-member team for the event, could not get the requisite cl...
Pakistan calls for 'Marshall Plan' to end militancy Khaleej Times ISLAMABAD - Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari on Wednesday called for a 'Marshall Plan' for Pakistan and Afghanistan to banish Taliban militancy for good. | He made the statement during talks in Islamabad with Hamid Karzai, the president of neighb...
Taliban talks likely on Karzai agenda in Pakistan Khaleej Times ISLAMABAD ' What role Pakistan plays in any peace effort aimed at the Taliban is likely to rank high on the agenda during Afghan President Hamid Karzai's two-day visit to Islamabad that started Wednesday. | Pakistan has made it clear it wants a part ...
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Jayawardene trying to forget Lahore attack The Times Of India LAHORE: Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene does not even want to talk about the March 3 attack on his team in Lahore last year while Meher Khalil, who drove the Lankans to safet...
Jayawardene trying to forget Lahore attack Deccan Herald Lahore, Mar 3 (PTI): | Sri Lankan batsman Mahela Jayawardene does not even want to talk about the March 3 attack on his team in Lahore last year while Meher Khalil, who drove the L...
Islamabad ready to deal Asia Times | By Syed Saleem Shahzad | ISLAMABAD - Ilyas Kashmiri was one of the key planners of the attack on the Indian city of Mumbai in November 2008 in which more than 160 people were kil...
Lethal US drone raid in Pakistan Al Jazeera | At least 12 people have been killed by two US missile strikes in a Pakistani tribal region near the Afghan border, Pakistani officials say. | The first strike took place at 8:00 pm in Mizar Madakhel village, some 50km west of Miranshah, the ma...
Chaos reigns as Pakistan backtrack on lifetime bans for Younus Khan and Mohammad Yousuf The Daily Mail | Pakistan cricket was embroiled in chaos and confusion last night when two former captains were banned for life and two other senior players were suspended for a year — only for their board to apparently backtrack. | In what will inevitably in...
World Vision attacked in Pakistan; 6 dead Seattle Times | ISLAMABAD - Suspected militants armed with assault rifles and a homemade bomb attacked the offices of the World Vision Christian aid group helping earthquake survivors in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing six Pakistani employees, police a...
Pakistan risks IMF's $1.2bn Asia Times | By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI, Pakistan - Islamabad's tardiness in naming a finance minister to succeed Shaukat Tarin, who resigned on February 23 to pursue his own business interests, may delay the release of US$1.2 billion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), part of a bailout package agree in November 2008. | President Asif Ali Zardar...
At Least 15,000 Conflict Widows In Kashmir: MKM Kashmir Observer | Srinagar, Mar 08: (KONS) The International Women's Day brought forth a horrific picture of the fair gender in Kashmir where at least 15,000 women were said to have been widowed in the past twenty years of conflict, and according to separatist estimates, 9000 subjected to rape by the forces. | Thousands more have been rendered 'half-widows" as not...
