Islamabad: Hafiz Saeed, the Mumbai terror attack mastermind and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) chief for whom the US has announced a bounty of $10 million, said Tuesday this was because he had opposing the re-opening of NATO supply lines to Afghanistan, a media report said. Saeed told the Al Jazeera TV channel the US move had come as he had been organising rallies against the re-opening of supply lines to NATO forces...
03:53 PM, Apr 03, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani authorities did not grant visas to members of the Indian band Euphoria, which was to perform at a university in Lahore last week, as the venue was within a cantonment, a representative of the organisers said today. Euphoria's performance at the prestigious Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) on March 23 was cancelled after Pakistan's Interior Ministry did not clear the issuance of visas to its members. "The...
03:48 PM, Mar 27, 2012
Lahore: Pakistani civil society activists have demanded that the square in Lahore where Bhagat Singh was hanged over eight decades ago should be renamed after the freedom fighter to honour his struggle to free the people of the region from the suppression and cruelty of British rule. During a ceremony held on Friday evening at Shadman Chowk, the spot where Singh was hanged on March 23, 1931, with his fellow...
12:26 PM, Mar 24, 2012
Srinagar: Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines Srinagar-Jammu flight to Lahore on January...
08:59 PM, Mar 20, 2012
Islamabad: The plane was full but the toilet wasn't. So, throwing all rules and caution to the wind, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) captain blithely decided to accommodate two passengers in the toilet of the Lahore-Karachi flight instead. The incident took place on a flight from Lahore to Karachi due to non-availability of seats, Geo News said on Wednesday, adding tongue in cheek that the national carrier was introducing "its...
12:57 PM, Feb 15, 2012
Lahore: Pakistanis were saved from severe embarrassment on Tuesday after police cracked a theft case within 48 hours and recovered a diamond necklace worth Rs 10 lakh stolen two days back from an Indian trader at an India Show in Lahore. "We arrested two men named Mohammad Shakil and Mohammad Salim and recovered the necklace," Superintendent of Police Liaquat Malik told a news conference in Punjab's provincial capital Lahore. The...
08:53 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Lahore: India and Pakistan have the potential to boost bilateral trade to $ 15 billion a year, High Commissioner Sharat Sabharwal said on Saturday at the inauguration of the largest ever India-specific trade exhibition in Pakistan. Close to 200 Indian exhibitors are participating in the three-day India Show organised at the Lahore Expo Centre. A wide array of products, ranging from gems to heavy machinery, is being showcased at the...
05:58 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New Delhi: Hira Mandi, the traditional red light quarter of Lahore, lives in the popular mindscape through its stories of longing, loss and 'mujras' after the Pakistan government clamped down on prostitution in the 1970s, says noted French writer Claudine Le Tourneur d'lson. Her fictional biography, 'Hira Mandi', based on the life story of Iqbal Husain, the son of a Hira Mandi courtesan, has connected to the English-speaking world with...
01:37 PM, Feb 10, 2012
Lahore: A three-storey factory collapsed on Monday in the Pakistani city of Lahore after a gas explosion, killing at least five people and trapping dozens, emergency officials said. "The factory has completely collapsed and two houses next to it as well," an emergency official at the site told Reuters by telephone, adding that narrow streets was preventing heavy rescue machinery from reaching the area. Karamat Ali, a spokesman for the...
10:17 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Contaminated heart medicine handed out to Pakistan's poorest leaves hundreds severely ill. ...
08:29 AM, Jan 30, 2012
New Delhi: At least 13 people are dead and 20 others wounded after a blast ripped through a Shia procession in the Punjab province on Sunday. The explosion occurred in Khanpur town shortly after a 'Chehlum' procession left a Shia prayer hall. Around 150 people were participating in the procession. Shia processions taken out on this day have also been attacked in the past. However, regional police chief Zahir Abid...
05:18 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Lahore: Khwaja Sultan Ahmed, the lawyer of Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, died in Lahore on Saturday following a brief illness at the age of 82. Ahmed's son-in-law Muhammad Hasan told PTI that the noted lawyer had been admitted in Lahore's Ittefaq Hospital on December 29 after he was diagnosed with meningitis. "He recovered but a few days ago, he contracted pneumonia which proved fatal," Hasan said. He was a...
03:46 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: At least three young girls were killed and dozens more injured in a stampede after a concert by singer Atif Aslam at an arts complex in this eastern Pakistani city on Monday, officials said. A large number of students of the Punjab College of Commerce had come to witness the concert at Alhamra Cultural Complex. The stampede occurred when private security guards used batons to push back a...
08:15 AM, Jan 10, 2012
Dubai: Al Qaeda has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of an American man in Pakistan and demanded the release of prisoners and an end to air strikes in Muslim countries in exchange for his freedom, according to an Internet statement. Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri also said in an audio recording issued on Islamist websites late on Thursday that a senior al Qaeda leader based in Pakistan known as Attiyatullah...
01:12 PM, Dec 02, 2011
Lahore: Kite-flyers here would now be booked under Terrorism Act if they were found deliberately endangering lives of people by using dangerous strings, a police official has said. Lahore's capital city police officer (CCPO) Ahmad Raza Tahir has directed a complete ban on kite-flying and asked all SHOs to ensure indiscriminate action against the usage of prohibited elements, such as dangerous strings, to ensure safety of innocent lives, the Daily...
06:12 PM, Nov 11, 2011
Lahore: A Pakistani court on Monday reserved its verdict on a petition filed by Lashkar-e-Taiba commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, charged with masterminding the Mumbai attacks, seeking the transfer of his trial from an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi to Lahore. The petition was heard by Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Chaudhry, who reserved his verdict after hearing arguments from both sides. Lakhvi's counsel Khwaja Sultan sought the transfer of the...
11:53 PM, Oct 17, 2011
New Delhi: Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani will convene an all-party meeting on Thursday to discuss the worsening US-Pakistan relations. Under fire, ISI Chief Ahmed Shuja Pasha, is also expected to brief the political leadership. A rally was staged by schoolchildren in Karachi against the US, who is considered to be the enemy after differences arose between both nations on the relations between the ISI and the Haqqani network....
07:21 AM, Sep 29, 2011
Lahore: The Lahore High Court has directed Pakistani authorities to block access to all websites, including Facebook, that are involved in "spreading religious hatred" and to submit a compliance report by October 6. In an order issued on Monday, Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed directed the Information Technology Ministry to "deny access to all websites in Pakistan involved in spreading religious hatred". However, the judge directed the ministry that access to...
12:34 PM, Sep 20, 2011
Lahore: Shahbaz Taseer, son of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer who was killed for opposing Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws, was on Friday abducted by four gunmen near his office in Lahore. The armed men travelling in a four-wheeler intercepted Shahbaz's car on Hussain Chowk in Gulberg area when he was going to his office along with his friend, Senior Superintendent Police (Investigation) Abdur Razzaq Cheema said. "After intercepting Shahbaz's car the...
02:36 PM, Aug 26, 2011
New Delhi: India on Thursday asked Pakistan to free Sarabjit Singh, an Indian national on death row who was convicted for alleged involvement in multiple blasts in Lahore and Multan in 1990, on humanitarian grounds. "It is not our case that he was involved (in those blasts)," External Affairs Minister SM Krishna told the Rajya Sabha during question hour. "We don't share Pakistan's view of his involvement." The minister stressed...
04:40 PM, Aug 11, 2011
