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Qari Ziauddin, who teaches Koran to boys in Qari Latif Islamic school, hanged Atif upside down with a ceiling fan in the school after beating him with sticks, which caused his death.
This is the police statement released in […]

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Source: Los Angeles Times
LAHORE, Pakistan — A festival that draws thousands to Pakistan’s cultural capital to usher in spring by flying colorful kites has fallen victim to the country’s violence and political turmoil.
Lahore’s annual Basant celebration usually occurs over a weekend in February or March. But this year, spring came with no sign of the […]

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Source: Thaindian
By Muhammad Najeeb
Hasanabdal (Pakistan), April 12 (IANS) More than 20,000 Sikh pilgrims from all over the world, including India, have started arriving at Panja Sahib in Hasanabdal, some 60 km from Islamabad, to celebrate the annual Baisakhi Mela (spring festival). Panja Sahib attracts thousands of Sikh devotees from all over the world every year […]

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Source: AFP
FAISALABAD, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan relied on an entertaining half-century by Salman Butt to beat Bangladesh by seven wickets on Duckworth-Lewis method in a rain-hit second day-night international on Friday.
The left-handed opener cracked a 72-ball 76 to help Pakistan reach 160-3 with 10 balls to spare, chasing a revised target of 158 in 25 […]

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Source: Bernama
LAHORE, April 11 (Bernama) — At least eight people were killed and several others injured in blast at a scrap market Thursday in Lahore, capital of Pakistan’s Punjab province, Pakistan Press International (PPI) reported.
City Police Chief Malik Iqbal confirmed seven people were killed in the blast which also injured 20 others at Misri Shah’s […]

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Source: [Emergency] Mailing List
By Sameer Shaharyar
Just when the lawyers movement had become sacred and had broke all the records of nobility and had earned the respect and esteem of the nation, things turned ugly in Lahore. Dr. Sher Afghun Niazi, a close aide of President Musharraf and an inactive leader of PML-Q went to the […]

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle
Government officials in Pakistan placed the country on high alert Tuesday after two powerful bomb blasts killed an estimated 31 people and injured 170 in two coordinated attacks in the city of Lahore.
The first blast occurred about 9:30 a.m. inside the offices of the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency as hundreds of staff […]

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Source: China View
ISLAMABAD, March 11 (Xinhua) — Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a passenger train at eastern Pakistan city of Lahore on Tuesday, killing four people, the state-run television reported.
The gunmen sprayed bullets at a train coming from the industrial city of Faisalabad to Lahore, the capital of Pakistan’s Punjab Province, PTV reported.
The gunmen fled […]

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Source: Daily Times
By Ali Usman
LAHORE: A paradoxical thing about Lahore that fascinates visitors is that it has an identity of its own, despite having a great heritage of colonial architecture, said US scholar Carla Rae Petievich.
Talking to Daily Times Carla said Lahore was an interesting city that was in a state of flux. She said […]

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In a dangerous, confused post-election Pakistan, bombings are becoming an everyday event. In the past few months, hundreds have died, leaders assassinated, buildings shattered… We want to hear what you have to say about these bombings!
Who is behind them? What can the government do to stop them? Should the army intervene? Are the new leaders […]

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Reports are coming in that there have been 2 bomb blasts on Mall Road Lahore and another one in Rawalpindi. There is no word yet on the casualties.
Moreover Senator Tariq Azim, ex. Minister for State for Information has resigned from Senate. This seems like a desperate attempt to aloof himself from PML (Q) for which […]

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Source: Daily Times
A US company, persuaded by an American woman who visited Pakistan and was moved by the keenness of the girls she met to obtain an education, is donating educational toys and aides to a girls’ madrassa in Lahore.
In September 2007, Ann EW Stone, a political consultant from Alexandria, Virginia, visited several cities in […]

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An alternate link for this Geo video is also available in case people in Pakistan are not able to view this [CLICK HERE]
The News reports: For the first time in the history of the country, the Geo News on Friday aired a video unmasking rigging in the February 18 elections.
In the video, the scenes of polls […]

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There are unconfirmed reports that PML-N candidate for the Lahore provincial assembly, Chaudhry Asif, has been shot dead along with his guards. No details of the shooting have yet been confirmed.

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 by Jasmine Rafique

RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court on Friday summoned the head of Behria Town and officials of the Defence Housing Authority and the Punjab Cooperative Housing Department to answer charges of land fraud filed by a housing society.
Justice Abdul Shakoor Paracha of the Lahore High Court issued the summons […]

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There is news that there is a bomb planted somewhere in the Defence Grammar School, Lahore. The school has been evacuated, while the police and the bomb disposal squad are on their way to ensure the safety of the building and the students.

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http://naqsha.net now brings you detailed Pakistan Maps overlaid on Google Maps satellite images. You can view in Hybrid mode (satellite overlay) or you can just see the maps generated by naqsha.net. No pluggins required. City details for Islamabad, Rawalpindi, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar. Other cities on the way are Faisalabad, Hyderabad, Multan, Quetta, Wah, etc. Click […]

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There have been reports that there are 3 bombs in Beaconhouse Defence, Lahore. The school was immediately evacuated and the bomb disposal squad have just reached there a while ago. No one has taken responsibility of the bombs as yet.

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Source: The News International
Supreme Court Bar Association’s President Ch Aitzaz Ahsan and its former chief Tariq Mehmood were again put under house arrest for another 30 days on Saturday after a brief period of their free movement.
Ch Aitzaz Ahsan after a freedom of movement for two days was again confined to the four walls of […]

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Source: Dawn
Three Punjab University (PU) students claim they were assaulted by Islami Jamiat Tulaba (IJT) members after Friday prayers at Jamia Masjid on the PU campus on Friday.
Rafiullah Awan, a fourth year physics student, told Dawn that after the prayers, he and two other students had been distributing flyers, which invited students to attend today’s […]

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Source: Dawn
Supreme Court Bar Association President Aitzaz Ahsan is set to participate in the rally which will be taken out from Nasser Bagh by the Concerned Citizens of Pakistan, lawyers, political parties and people from all walks of life.
The CCP, which came into being after Aitzaz was detained, had been taking out rallies from Zaman […]

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Source: The Post
Student Action Committee, Concerned Citizens Pakistan (CCP) Punjab Bar Council, Pakistan Medical Association, Lahore District Bar Association, Women’s Action Forum, Joint Action Committee, PML-N, PTI, National Worker’s Party, Labour Party, Khaksaar Tehrik, APDM and civil society groups will hold a protest rally Saturday (today) here at Nasir Bagh for the restoration of November […]

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Source: Dawn
Op-Ed by Ayesha Siddiqa
In the past few months there have been a lot of comments about feudalism in Pakistan. The general drift of the argument presented by many is that feudalism does not exist in the country any more.
There are others who argue that given the rise of capitalism in the country, feudalism is […]

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Source: The News International
Lahore, Rawalpindi and Peshawar to be affected
CNG stations in Lahore will suspend their services from Friday midnight to Saturday midnight as part of the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Ltd’s load management programme.
The SNGPL had asked the CNG Association to stop the sale of CNG in Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar for 24 hours […]

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Source: Dawn
PML-Q president and former premier Shujaat Hussain on Tuesday said though party was unanimous on the issue of candidature for prime minister’s slot, the final decision in this regard will, however, be taken in a democratic manner.
Addressing the party candidates from Sargodha here at his residence, Mr Hussain said PMLQ was a democratic party […]

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