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Pak Punjab province governor shot dead

Islamabad: The governor of Pakistan's powerful Punjab province, Salman Taseer, was shot dead on Tuesday by one of his guards in the Pakistani capital, apparently because he had spoken out against the country's controversial blasphemy laws, officials said. The killing of Salman Taseer was the most high-profile assassination of a political figure in Pakistan since the slaying of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in December 2007, and it rattled a...

05:42 PM, Jan 04, 2011

Efforts to save Pakistan's rock carvings

by Press Trust Of India

Islamabad: An effort has been launched to save nearly 50,000 rock carvings and inscriptions dating back to the Stone Age era in Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan, following reports that many of them were facing defacement. The inscriptions and carvings have either been defaced or are in danger of fading away because of exposure to nature's vagaries, experts said. Concerns about saving the priceless carvings and inscriptions will be raised...

02:32 PM, Jan 03, 2011

Pakistan's Hindu families seek asylum in India

by IANS

Islamabad: More than two dozen Hindu families in Pakistan have sought political asylum in India after an increase in cases of kidnapping for ransom and target killings of the members of their community in Balochistan province, an official said. The Hindu families have approached the Indian high commission in Islamabad for visa and political asylum. They cited the increase in abductions for ransom and target killings as their reason for...

11:44 AM, Dec 27, 2010

'Terror attacks are due to fundamentalists'

by Suhasini Haidar,CNN-IBN

Just a day after German Chancellor Angela Merkel caused a stir by calling multi-culturalism a failure in Germany, German Foreign Minister Dr Guido Westerwelle said India and Germany must jointly fight terrorism caused by fundamentalism, and that immigrants must learn to integrate with the country. He made a few strong comments in an exclusive interview to Suhasini Haidar on CNN-IBN. "If someone comes into our country it is necessary that...

09:01 PM, Oct 18, 2010

13 killed in violence ahead of Karachi by-polls

by IANS

Islamabad: At least 13 people were killed and 40 injured in various incidents of violence hours ahead of the by-poll being held for an assembly seat in Karachi, capital of Pakistan's Sindh province, on Sunday. Most of the killings are believed to be the result of political enmity between Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and Awami National Party (ANP), both contesting in the by-election for PS-94 assembly seat. ANP Sindh chief...

09:32 AM, Oct 17, 2010

Attack on NATO tanker convoy leaves six dead

by IANS

Islamabad: Six people were killed in an attack on a convoy of NATO tankers carrying fuel for international troops in Afghanistan on Monday, according to media reports. Twenty-eight tankers burst into flames from the attack, the Pakistan broadcaster Geo TV reported on its website. Unknown attackers opened fire on the tankers late on Sunday at an industrial site in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad. Another six people were injured in the attack,...

09:38 AM, Oct 04, 2010