Posts Tagged ‘Bagh’

Police claim killing youth in encounter

LAHORE – A 22-year-old youth was gunned down in what police claimed an encounter near Dispensary Chaowk in Shadbagh police limits on Thursday.
The deceased was identified as Ali Raza, a resident of Zeenat Block, Allama Iqbal Town. Police investigators said the deceased Ali Raza was a Proclaimed Offender.
Police said Ali Raza along with his accomplices snatched a motorcycle from a citizen …

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Two more fall prey to spurious drug

Two more patients died due to spurious drug here in Lahore, reaching the causalities to 131 on Thursday. According to the media reports, Syed Abbas, 55, of Shad Bagh Lahore and 74-year-old Syed Zafar of Sodiwal were the fresh victims of Isotab drug reaction. Both the victims were under treatment in Services Hospital Lahore. At the other hand, Lahore Health Department has started Antidote Folinic …

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Iraq’s Sunni-backed lawmakers return to parliament

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament reconvened Tuesday after Sunni-backed lawmakers ended their boycott to protest alleged persecution of Sunni officials, a development that could restore some stability in the war-ravaged country. Last month the Sunni-backed Iraqiya bloc banned lawmakers and government ministers from parliament and Cabinet sessions after the Shia-led government issued an arrest warrant against the [...]

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Via DAWN.com

Pakistan foreign policy imported: Fazl

GUJRANWALA – JUI-F President Maulana Fazlur Rehman has said that masses in Pakistan are not satisfied with the government and Balochistan problem should be solved on political basis.
JUI-F leader was addressing a public gathering here at Sheranwala Bagh where power outages caused security problems a number of times.
Fazl said it was due to ‘flawed policies’ that insurgency was …

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Suicide car bomb outside Baghdad hospital kills 31

A suicide attacker driving an explosives-packed car hit a funeral procession in Zafraniyah, confirmed an interior ministry official.

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Via DAWN.com

Suicide car bomber kills 28 in Baghdad

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near a funeral procession in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, killing at least 28 people in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said. Police officials said the blast occurred at 11:00 a.m. local time in the predominantly Shiite neighborhood of Zafaraniyah, where mourners had gathered for the funeral of a person …

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Insurgent bombing in Iraq kills 10 people

Insurgents bombed a house belonging to two policemen and their families in central Iraq early on Thursday, killing 10 people inside in the latest brazen attack since the U.S. troop withdrawal, officials said. The house where the two policemen brothers lived was located in the Hamia area, about 31 miles (50 kilometers) south of Baghdad, a police officer said. It was leveled when insurgents …

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SHC takes suo moto notice on Lawyers killing; summons IG police, DG Rangers

The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday took a suo moto notice of three lawyers’ murder in Karachi summoning police and Ranger chiefs in the court.
Three lawyers were shot dead and a fourth wounded on Wednesday in apparently a sectarian attack in Karachi. The victims included a father and his son. Armed motorcyclists sprayed bullets at their car in Arambagh area.
SHC Chief Justice Musheer Alam on …

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3 lawyers gunned down in Karachi

KARACHI – Three lawyers and a member of Tableegi Jamat were shot dead on Wednesday in a new wave of sectarian violence in the financial capital of the country.
Three lawyers, members of Shia Lawyers Forum, were shot dead and a fourth wounded in a drive-by shooting in city’s southern Arambagh neighbourhood, prompting the Shia Ulma Council and lawyers community to call a strike today …

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Two car bombs kill 10, wound 38 in Baghdad

Two car bombs exploded in Baghdad’s Sadr City on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 38 in the latest attack targeting Shi’ite areas as a political crisis threatens to revive sectarian strife in Iraq. The first blast hit a group of laborers gathering to wait for jobs, leaving a chaotic scene of scattered shoes and food, and pools of blood. The bomb killed at least eight people and …

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Two car bomb blasts kill 10 in Baghdad

Bombs in two parked cars exploded in a mainly Shia area of Iraq’s capital on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding 31, police and hospital sources said.

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Via DAWN.com

Benefits of KBD

If Kalabagh dam had been built there would have been no loadshedding, no industry would have shutdown and there would have been no flight of industry. New industry would have been set up through local and foreign investment, and industrial production would have increased. Exports would have soared. Revenues would have been generated. Enough gas would have been available for industry, for CNG …

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March on parliament if Nato supply restored

ISLAMABAD – The speakers at a public gathering Sunday warned the government of serious consequences if it tried to reopen Nato supply routes and condemned its intention of granting most favoured nation (MFN) status to India.
Thousands gathered here at Liaquat Bagh to participate in Difa-i-Pakistan Conference (DPC) organised by Jamaatud Dawa (JuD) under the aegis of the Difa-i-Pakistan …

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Difa-e-Pakistan Council to sit in if Nato supplies resumes

Difa-e-Pakistan Council leadership warned the government that if Nato supply line restored, they would stage a sit-in from Peshawar to Chaman, demaning closure of the supplies to Nato on permanent basis. Jamaat-i-Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hassan, Jamat-ut-Dawa Ameer Hafiz Saeed, Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan leader Sahibzada Abul Khair Zubair and other leaders addressed the conference at Liaquat Bagh …

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New arrests of Sunni leaders in Iraq

BAQUBA, Iraq – Security forces detained a Sunni Arab politician in central Iraq on Friday while a second escaped in the latest round of detentions to hit the minority group amid a political row. The arrest took place in the central province of Diyala, north of Baghdad, after a majority of its provincial council members signed a document last month calling for greater autonomy from the central …

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President Zardari expert in blame game: Nahid Khan

Peoples Party Leader and former Political Secretary to Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Mrs Naheed Khan has said that President Zardari was expert in blame game and should have the moral courage to name the lady who persuaded the former Prime Minister to address public meeting at Liaquat bagh on 27th December, 2007.
In an interview with the private TV channel Nahid Khan was asked about her reaction over …

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Ayla Malik joins PTI

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ISLAMABAD – Former parliamentarian and niece of former president Sardar Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari, Ayla Malik, on Thursday called on Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan and after a detailed meeting joined the party.
Ayla Malik is the sister of MNA Sumaira Malik and both are also granddaughters of Nawab of Kalabagh. She had joined Farooq Leghari-led Millat Party in year 1999 and …

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