Lahore: The Punjabi Taliban is believed to be behind the kidnapping of former premier Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haider, officials said on Thursday. "A Punjabi Taliban group based in Mian Chanu, 80 km from Multan district, is believed to be involved in the kidnapping of Ali Haider Gilani," a source in Punjab Police said.
Earlier in the day, gunmen kidnapped Ali Haider in Multan district, 350 km from Lahore, while he was campaigning for the May 11 General Election. Ali Haider, 27, is contesting polls from the Punjab Assembly as a candidate of the Pakistan's Peoples Party.
The gunmen shot and killed Ali's Haider's personal secretary and a bodyguard. Several persons were injured by the gunmen, who bundled Ali Haider into a car and sped off.
The PPP criticised the Punjab government for not taking action against the Punjabi Taliban holed up in the southern part of Punjab. Law enforcement agencies are yet to trace Ali Haider. ...
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09:59 PM, May 09, 2013
Islamabad: Former Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani's son Ali Haidar was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen from a rally in Multan and his secretary killed on Thursday. The attack comes just two days ahead of elections in Pakistan that are scheduled to be held on May 11. According to Pakistani news channel Geo News, Ali Haider was campaigning when he was kidnapped and has been injured. Gilani has now reached...
02:12 PM, May 09, 2013
A case of blasphemy has been registered against Pakistan's ambassador to the US, Sherry Rehman over her remarks on a TV show, a charge that carries the death penalty. ...
04:03 AM, Feb 22, 2013
Islamabad: Cellular services were on Sunday night suspended in four major Pakistani cities, including Lahore and Karachi, to prevent terrorist attacks using bombs triggered with mobile phones, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Millions of people in Lahore, Multan, Karachi and Quetta were unable to use their mobile phones from 8 pm as cellular operators suspended all services in most parts of these cities on the directions of the Interior Ministry....
01:42 AM, Aug 20, 2012
Islamabad: A Rs 7 billion ($77 million) 'drug quota allotment' scam allegedly involving Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani' son has surfaced in Pakistan, Geo News reported. A three-member Supreme Court bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry heard a case on Thursday against the health ministry illegally allotting a quota of a bronchodilator drug 'ephedrine' worth Rs 7 billion to two Multan-based companies. The case was filed by Anti-Narcotics...
09:31 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The sorry state of the recruitment process for PSU bosses is out in the open as CNN-IBN has accessed a copy of a secret Finance Ministry note that shows that a possible contender for the post of National Mineral Development Corporation (NMDC) chairman is being probed in a corruption case. NMDC, one of the richest public sector undertaking units of the country, has now become the subject of...
09:59 AM, Jan 19, 2012
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
Lahore: A powerful blast near a police post in Multan city of Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday killed at least three policemen and injured several others, officials said. The police post on the busy Multan-Lahore road is located near residential and commercial areas. The blast was heard from several kilometres away, witnesses said. Officials told the media that three policemen were killed instantly and several others injured. Reports said the...
02:49 PM, Jun 26, 2011
The explosions took place at Qasim Bella area of Multan Cantonment. ...
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The passengers were headed for the forthcoming Eid celebrations . ...
12:13 AM, Oct 01, 2008
New Delhi: Australian speedster Brett Lee in his 12-year-international career found Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara as two of the batsmen of his era whom he found difficult to bowl to. Sachin and Lara were the two, Lee told a TV channel during an interview when asked about those batsmen he found toughest to bowl to. Lee, who is considered as one of the fastest bowlers in the history of...
09:23 PM, Mar 28, 2008
A Pakistan tribal council ordered a man to stand neck-deep in a freezing pond to "prove" his son innocent of a robbery charge. ...
03:00 PM, Feb 16, 2007
It will be tough for the beauty industry to get
multani mitti because flash floods in Barmer have ruined the mines. ...
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