Lahore

5 suspected LI militants arrested in Lahore

Lahore, July 4: Pakistan law enforcement agencies claimed to have arrested five suspected militants, belonging to the Lashkar-e-Islam (LI), while plotting suicide attacks in Lahore.

Nawaz calls military action in Khyber Agency “gross violation of human rights”

Lahore, July 3 : PML-N leader and former Pakistan premier, Nawaz Sharif has condemned the military action launched in Khyber Agency for violating human rights, and warned that if any such operation

Pervez Musharraf’s cobbler-friend in Old Delhi wants to meet him

Lahore, July 2 : A cobbler based in Old Delhi claims that he is a childhood friend of Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, and that the duo played together in ‘Neher Wali Haveli’, the ancestral hou

Senior party leader bemoans lack of ‘democracy’ within Zardari’s PPP

asif ali zardariLahore, July 1 : A senior PPP leader has said that it was high time to voice differences within the party, as, in his words, voicing different opinions “did not mean challenging the party’s leadership”.

He said until 2007, the PPP was synonymous with the Bhutto legacy, and that the party and its hardcore workers remained together because of the charismatic personalities of PPP founder Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Benazir Bhutto.

Pak to release Indian ‘spy’ today at Wagah Border

Lahore, July 1: Pakistan is slated to hand over an Indian spy who was jailed in Lahore’s Kot Lakhpat jail for the past ten years, to Indian authorities at the Wagah Border today.

Gilani says militants from Central Asian nations behind tribal areas unrest

Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza GilaniLahore, June 30 : Pakistan Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has said that foreign elements hailing from Central Asian Republics (CAR) were behind the current unrest and spike in violence in the tribal belt, and that his government was adopting a three-pronged strategy, viz. political dialogue, development in the region and use of force as a last resort, to counter militancy in these restive areas.

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