Islamabad: Pakistan is committed to protecting shrines belonging to minorities, a minister said on Sunday, following a protest by Hindus over illegal occupation of a temple in Punjab. Minister-in-charge for National Harmony Paul Bhatti said all steps were being taken to maintain Hindu temples, Online news agency reported. More than 30 Hindus from Zafarwal in Narowal district protested in front of the National Press Club to seek an end to...
01:48 AM, Apr 02, 2012
Lahore: Twenty-six people were killed and 78 others injured when a bus carrying school students went off the road and fell into a ravine in Pakistan's Punjab province on Monday night, a police officer said. The bus was carrying students of Millat Public Grammar School of Faisalabad who were returning from an excursion to Kalar Kahar, about 200 km from Lahore. The accident occurred near Chakwal city. A spokesman for...
12:58 AM, Sep 27, 2011
Islamabad: An earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter scale shook parts of Pakistan on Tuesday though there were no immediate reports of damage, officials said. The epicentre of the quake was located near Sargodha in Punjab province, they said. The temblor was felt in Dera Ismail Khan, Layyah, Bhakkar, Mianwali, Kundian and Khushab. ...
08:22 PM, Jun 07, 2011
The Governor of Pakistan Punjab province Salman Taseer was assassinated last Tuesday. ...
10:53 PM, Jan 11, 2011
Peshawar: A Pakistani Taliban faction linked to trainer of suicide bombers Qari Hussain on Thursday claimed responsibility for the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer, saying that the "man who killed him was from among us." "We claim responsibility for the killing of Salmaan Taseer. The Punjab Governor was our target and we have planned this programme and the man who killed him was from among us," Shakirullah Shakir, a...
06:14 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Lahore: Leaders of the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) have held the government of Punjab province responsible for Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassination and alleged that some elements in the opposition PML-N might have been behind the crime. PPP leaders in Punjab were not convinced Taseer's killer's confession that the assassination was an "act of faith." Some of them believe the murder was part of a plot to pit the PPP...
05:44 PM, Jan 06, 2011
Salman Taseer, the governor of the Pakistani province of Punjab, was laid to rest with state honours. ...
09:40 PM, Jan 05, 2011
Islamabad: Punjab's high profile Governor Salmaan Taseer was assassinated by his own guard in the heart of Islamabad. The guard was described as a religious fanatic apparently incensed by the Governor's tough stand against blasphemy laws. Salman Taseer, a confidant of Pakistan's President Zardari and the governor of Punjab province was killed at point blank range by his own security guard. Eyewitnesses said the guard Mumtaz Hussain Qadri of the...
12:17 AM, Jan 05, 2011
Imtiaz Gul speaks to CNN-IBN on Punjab Province governor Salman Taseer's assassination. ...
11:58 PM, Jan 04, 2011
The verdict led to the fall of the PML-N government in Punjab. ...
09:03 PM, Feb 25, 2009
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