Senior Pakistani TV journalist Hamid Mir, who faced threats from Taliban and other terror groups, was on Saturday shot at in Karachi by 4 unidentified motorcycle-borne gunmen near a bridge on way to his office.
On Sunday, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) formed the committee to probe the explosive allegations levelled by former Rawalpindi Commissioner Liaquat Ali Chattha that widespread rigging aided by the judiciary and the top election body took place against jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's party in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
According to a report in the Dawn newspaper, 22 constituencies with a greater number of rejected votes than the margin of victory fell in Punjab, with one each in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh province.
The PCB said security concerns are the main reason for their rejection of the venue.
The delegation after reviewing arrangements will hold final talks with Pakistani officials in Lahore.
Three suicide bombers blew up their explosives-laden van when they were challenged by police on the seafront of Karachi in southern Pakistan on Wednesday night, killing two policemen.
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A reporter of Geo television channel was gunned down by unidentified persons in Karachi on Friday. Wali Babar was returning home from work when he was intercepted by some people in a car and gunned down from close range in the Liaquatabad area of the city.Pehlwan Goth has been in the grip of violence for the past three days after three people with political affiliations were killed, stirring unrest in the area. Firing continued in the area on Friday.
'The intelligence agencies have taken the three men into custody from different parts of Karachi because of their alleged affiliation with Kasab,' the Daily Times newspaper quoted a source as saying. The men were 'reportedly taken to Islamabad and an investigation was in progress', the newspaper reported. There was no official word on the development.
A powerful bomb went off at a busy intersection in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi on Tuesday, injuring over 30 people, witnesses and police officials said.
Taliban militants on Tuesday attacked a training camp of the Airport Security Force near Karachi international airport in Karachi, but fled after Pakistani forces repulsed the assault, a day after an all-night siege at the facility left nearly 40 people dead.
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Gunmen on motorcycles attacked a police station in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Tuesday to free an inmate, killing a policeman and wounding two others, officials said.
Two terrorist strikes targeted Shia religious gatherings in southern port city of Karachi and Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir on Sunday, injuring nearly 25 people.
According to officials, a Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) flight from Multan to Karachi, was cruising in to land at the Karachi airport on Saturday night when it was fired upon while passing over the Malir area which is close to the airport.
A suspected bomber was arrested at the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi when batteries and electrical circuits were found concealed in his shoes after a thorough check-up following a scanner alarm.The man identified as Faiz Mohammad, 30, was scheduled to board a Thai International Airlines flight for Muscat. Confirming the arrest, an airport security force official said Mohammed, who holds a diploma in civil engineering, was apprehended while he was being scanned.
The Bharat Ratna for him comes nine years after the honour was bestowed on former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The two leaders together spearheaded the journey of the Jana Sangh and then the BJP for over five decades.
The pitch has occupied the centrestage in the contest between the arch-rivals so far.
Pakistani Taliban's Sindh unit, which had penetrated into various departments of the provincial government, was involved in a foiled terror attack at a Naval dockyard in Karachi in the country's financial capital.
The Taliban on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a Muharram procession of Pakistani Shia Muslims here that killed 43 people and threatened to carry out more such strikes within 10 days.
The BCCI delegation wants the team's stay in the two cities curtailed.
'There's this presence, a sense of patrolling and surveillance. And it's not coming from a place of safety.' 'It's coming from a place of 'You don't belong here'.' 'It's a malevolent force, the society at large is observing them.'
A major terrorist attack on the Pakistan naval dockyard in Karachi was foiled by security forces who killed two militants and captured four others, a top naval official said on Monday.
An operational head of the Tehreek-e -Taliban Pakistan, who is on the most wanted list of terrorists in the country, was captured from the outskirts of Karacghi, police said on Thursday. Acting on a tip-off from other arrested TTP men, police arrested Irfan Khan from his hideout in Sohrab Goth near Karachi.
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Meanwhile, the sports ministry has asked the PCB not to offer a long-term contract to its incumbent director of cricket Mohammad Hafeez yet, who came into the role after the 50-overs World Cup last year.
Karachi is not reputed as a sub-continental beauty spot. Jihadist battles, gang wars and gunfire are familiar street sights and sounds, drug trafficking in its vast slums, kidnappings and political violence between Sindhi nationalists and MQM, the muhajir party of immigrants from UP and Bihar, are the stuff of everyday life.
An American national said to be a member of Al Qaeda was captured in a raid in Karachi, but Pakistani officials later changed their version that the man picked up was the terror outfit's US-born spokesman.
Sixteen people including political activists and a senior police official have been killed in the city since Monday, while unidentified gunmen wounded a civil judge on Wednesday.
The law and order situation in the capital cities of Pakistan's Sindh and Balochistan provinces continued to deteriorate today with nine people killed and several injured in both cities.
Former Pakistan captain Misbah ul Haq feels that due to uncertainty in the PCB and its short-sightedness, foreigners and even local coaches don't want to work with the country's cricket board.
India want to play one-day internationals in Karachi and Peshawar instead of Test matches.
At least five people were shot dead on Wednesday in different incidents of target killings in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi.
Tickets for the first one-day international between Pakistan and India sold out within hours of sales being resumed.
Kher was one of the 18 Indians invited to the four-day festival by the organisers but he is the only one whose visa has not been cleared. The other 17 Indian participants have been given visas.
The admission came after a bomb blast at a Karachi business centre, the Kawish Crown Plaza, which police said was ostensibly owned by Ahmed Jamal but actually belonged to Dawood Ibrahim'.
Millions of people in Pakistan were left without electricity when a major power outage occured on January 23.
At least 24 more people were killed and over 200 injured as violence continued in Karachi, taking the total death toll to 82.
