Pakistan

BSF shoots down intruder, seizes heroine and ammunition

BSF shoots down intruder, seizes heroine and ammunitionMahawa (Indo-Pak Border), March 4 : Border Security Force personnel shot dead a Pakistani intruder when he was trying to sneak into the Indian side of the border with an accomplice at the at Indo-Pak Border on Tuesday midnight.

Eight kilograms of heroine worth four million rupees in international market, one Chinese pistol and a 12 bore double barrel gun with cartridges have been recovered from the place of incident.

Pakistan offers reward in hunt for Sri Lanka cricket team attackers

Pakistan offers reward in hunt for Sri Lanka cricket team attackers Islamabad  - Pakistan announced a 125,000-US-dollar reward Wednesday for information about the perpetrators behind the daylight terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, which killed six police officers and wounded seven athletes.

Advertisements about the reward appearing in several newspapers carried television stills of Tuesday's attack in which two terrorists were pictured from two angles carrying Kalashnikov assault rifles and backpacks.

`I hit the floor of the van’, recalls Oz umpire for Pak-Sri Lanka Test

Lahore, Mar. 4 : Australian cricket umpire Steve Davis said that he immediately hit the floor of the van he was traveling in when the terrorists attacked the convoy carrying the Sri Lankan cricket team to Lahore's Gaddafi Stadium.

Davis said that he thought the shots were firecrackers at first, but when gunmen opened fire on his van, killing the driver and seriously wounding two others, he hit the floor.

"We heard what sounded like fire crackers and popping off and we realized it was something a bit more serious so we all hit the floor of our van," The Courier Mail quoted Davis as telling ABC Radio.

Pak Govt. backtracks on claims of recovery of Indian weapons at Lahore attack site

Pak Govt. backtracks on claims of recovery of Indian weapons at Lahore attack siteIslamabad, Mar. 4 : The Pakistan Government has denied reports suggesting that weapons recovered from the Lahore attack site were of Indian manufacture.

Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani's Advisor on Interior Affairs, Rehman Malik, has said the weapons recovered from the attack site did not bear Indian markings, as was claimed earlier.

60 Lahore suspects held for attack on Lankan team

60 Lahore suspects held for attack on Lankan teamLahore, Mar. 4 : As many as sixty suspects have been rounded up for questioning for their alleged role in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team on Tuesday, a Pakistani TV channel has reported.

Pakistani Police has detained many suspects here. Bomb disposable squad recovered dozens hand grenades, explosive materials, five suicide jackets, Kalashnikovs, and many bullets from eleven separate places in the city.

Police teams have also seized three cars and a rickshaw believed to have been used by the terrorists during the ambush, Geo TV reported.

Lahore attack planned inside Pakistan: Editorial

Lahore attack planned inside Pakistan: EditorialLahore, Mar. 4: Even before the dust of the Lahore terror attack has settled, the blame game has begun. Pakistan is blaming a ‘foreign hand’ for the ghastly act.

Pakistan’s political by lanes have also wasted no time in laying the blame on organizations outside its territory as a PPP politician, within minutes of the attack, said “This is clearly the work of a foreign hand.”

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