Senior police officers were among 13 people killed on Monday when a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up targeting them during a protest rally outside Pakistan's Punjab assembly in Lahore that also wounded 60 others.
Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the blast seemed to be aimed at sabotaging the Pakistan Super League final in Lahore.
Three back-to-back blasts went off near a market in Lahore on Friday night, but there was no immediate report of any casualty, hours after 45 people were killed and over 100 others injured when two suicide bombers targeted the army in the cantonment.
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Aamir Khan turned 59 on March 14, and celebrated his birthday by cutting a cake with the media.
The team will finalise venues and review security arrangements for the historic series between the two sub-continent rivals.
The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has reorganized its selection committee by doing away with the chairman's post and giving powers to the selectors to pick the captain and head coach of the national team.
A huge Bollywood contingent is to perform during the Basant festival celebrations in Lahore next week.
Pakistani authorities have detained about a dozen suspects in connection with the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team here that left six players injured, as government announced a reward of Rs 1 crore for information about the attackers.
The Sri Lankan cricket board has turned down an invitation from the Pakistan Cricket Board to send its team to Lahore to play two T20 International matches at the start of its home series in October.
BCCI president Roger Binny and vice-president Rajeev Shukla have accepted the invitation of the Pakistan Cricket Board and will be in Lahore from September 4-7 during which they will watch a couple of Asia Cup games.
Tharoor was asked by a Pakistani journalist as to how the political fortune of the Indian government was impacted by the rising COVID numbers. He said it was paradoxical as the government was "not doing well" in dealing with the pandemic and people realise that, but polls suggest that it has not hurt the BJP politically as it should.
He attributed the nation's predicament to unseen forces orchestrating decisions from behind the scenes, reducing elected officials to mere puppets.
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The 16 Pakistani players who have signed up with the Indian Cricket League will play in the second edition of the tournament at Lahore Badshahs.
India's tactical and operational response demonstrated its ability to prosecute tri-service operations, even without a formal tri-service doctrine or the higher command structure needed to coordinate it, points out Ajai Shukla.
The Kohinoor diamond, estimated to cost over $200 million (Rs 1,465 crore), was neither stolen nor "forcibly" taken by British rulers but given to East India Company by erstwhile rulers of Punjab
Clearly, her father hopes that a successful tenure in Lahore will give Maryam the ballast to be prime minister after the next general election.
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Over 300 people were also injured in the attack and many of them were in a critical condition.
A powerful blast has been reported at the office of Special Investigative Unit of police in Lahore. Casualties feared.
PCB says it has signed hosting rights agreement of 2025 Champions Trophy with ICC
Freedom fighter Bhagat Singh's collection of books that was confiscated and used as evidence to award capital punishment to the revolutionary leader in the 1929 Lahore Conspiracy case, is currently lying in a state of neglect in Lahore.
New Zealand Cricket will send a security delegation to Pakistan ahead of their five-match T20I series in April this year.
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The row broke out after a private television news agency attributed the excerpts of the article shared by the NC leader to him.
Ending days of speculation on whether the Lahore Lions would play in the upcoming Champions League Twenty20 in India, the Pakistan Cricket Board said the team has been issued visa and clearance for the tournament.
The prime minister touched the Pakistani prime minister's mother's feet.
'He (Kohli) is one of the best players, and we will plan against him as well'
Babri has in the past also worked with some players helping them understand how to handle pressure situations and get through bad performances and personal issues.
Mar del Plata in Argentina will host the women's tournament in 2007.
PCB chief Mohsin Naqvi says he is not even considering the possibility of next year's ICC Champions Trophy being moved out of Pakistan despite the speculation surrounding India's participation in the event.
Soon after landing in Lahore, the World Eleven players and officials were taken to a five-star hotel on the main Mall road which was closed for traffic from all sides.
Ashraf announced his decision to step down after chairing a managing committee meeting in Lahore on Friday
Sharif, the three-time former premier, said that there is a need for all the political parties to sit together and form a government to pull Pakistan out of its difficulties.
Television channels aired footage of a bearded man in his twenties who was nabbed while he was reportedly trying to approach two helicopters being used by security forces for surveillance at the centre.
'Five months after the elections in February 2024, the Pakistan army has not been able to break Imran Khan's resolve and break his political party.'
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