Even though programmes have been held in Ahmedabad in a show of Hindu-Muslim unity, police are taking no chances.
BCCI official Rajiv Shukla said Prime Minister Vajpayee and his deputy L K Advani may also be invited to Pakistan for other matches.
Elusive Taliban leader Mullah Omar, one of the world's most wanted terrorists, was treated in a Karachi hospital with the help of Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence after he suffered a heart attack, a private intelligence agency has claimed.
Vicious armed gangs are waging a savage battle for supremacy in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi in which 306 people have been killed in the last one month and many areas of the city have become "no go zones", the Sindh police chief told the Supreme Court.
At least 16 people were killed and around 40 injured in Pakistan's commercial capital of Karachi, when armed men raided a gambling club and threw hand grenades in one of the city's old areas, Ghas Mandi.
The death toll in rioting in Karachi on Thursday rose to 12 as the provincial government ordered a probe into the violence that erupted following clashes between lawyers supporting President Pervez Musharraf and their rivals. Six persons, including a woman, were burnt alive after a mob on Wednesday torched a building near the city courts that has the offices of several lawyers. Two other persons were shot dead in incidents of firing while four more succumbed to injuries.
Recent disclosures allege large scale corruption, nepotism and kickbacks by Pakistan air chief Air Marshal Zaheer Ahmed Babar Sidhuin housing land deals in Islamabad and in buying of new aircraft, points out Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
Pakistan's chaotic financial heart is home to 18 million people, Taliban bombers, contract killers - and one of the world's most successful stock markets.
A Pakistan International Airlines plane flying to Saudi Arabia with 187 passengers on board made an emergency landing at Karachi airport today after its hydraulic system developed a fault, an official said.
Violence and arson once again returned to Karachi with 11 persons being killed and 16 others injured following the murder of Awami National Party office bearer Ubaidullah Yousufzai.
Unidentified miscreants hurled two hand grenades in front of a Pakistan Air Force base, in the port city of Karachi this evening, injuring at least one person, a spokesman said.
They were allegedly planning suicide attacks in Karachi.
Twin factory fires claimed over 40 lives, including that of women and children, in Pakistan's two major cities on Tuesday.
Saud, who forged a 150-run partnership with Sarfaraz Ahmed for the fifth wicket, was unbeaten on 124, which included 17 fours.
Is Dawood Ibrahim, defamed gangster and the man wanted by the Central Bureau of Investigation in connection with the 1993 serial blasts in Mumbai following the demolition of Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, still in Pakistan?
Fresh violence erupted in Karachi on Saturday when at least 14 people were killed, seven of them within an hour, with armed men on motorcycles carrying out target killings in Pakistan's biggest city. The killings come at a time when an International Defence Exhibition is being held in the city and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is visiting the city with a high-level delegation.
Violence rocked Pakistan's biggest city on Tuesday as 13 people were killed in targeted shootings including five suspected Taliban activists, a Shia scholar and two Moroccan students at a religious seminary.
This was the first time in the history of SA cricket a senior team had reached the final of a World Cup.
A bid to storm the central jail in Karachi has been foiled with the police arresting seven members of a banned militant outfit that were plotting the raid.
The incident occurred late in the night on Sunday in the upmarket area of Clifton and the girl was held by the assailants for six hours before they left her near the Seaview beach area
Imran Farooq, a leading member of the Muttahida Quami Movement -- Pakistan's third largest political party, was stabbed to death outside his London home on Thursday evening, the police said. The Metropolitan Police said they were called to reports of a serious assault in Green Lane at Edgware in north London. "The next of kin have been informed." He said, adding that so far, no arrests have been made in connection with the incident.
Seven people were killed and at least 30 others were injured in a blast in an industrial area in Karachi on Monday, police and rescue workers said. The blast occurred at the busy Gul Ahmed crossing at Landhi Industrial Area in Qaidabad. Most of the victims were workers of a nearby factory. Police officials said that the bomb was hidden in a motorcycle parked in the area.
'Credit goes to the team for having a lot of self-belief in themselves and coming back strongly after batting poorly in the first innings.'
Nearly 100 people have been killed and 50 others injured, some of them who jumped out of windows to save their lives, in a deadly fire in a three-storey garment factory in Pakistan's financial hub Karachi.
England became the first Test team to complete a 3-0 whitewash in Pakistan after they won the third and final match by eight wickets in Karachi on Tuesday.
Pakistan is bracing for another day of violence that broke out in many cities after the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan for alleged corruption with the leaders of his party announcing a countrywide strike on Wednesday to protest against the fascist government.
A bomb went off outside a Pakistan navy office in the southern port city of Karachi on Thursday, killing at least one person and injuring three others.
Pakistan on Friday dismissed reports claiming Afghan Taliban chief Mullah Omar had fled from Quetta to Karachi, with the help of the Inter Services Intelligence, to avoid the possibility of being targeted by United States drones."This is ridiculous to say the least," Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters. He said there had been speculations about Omar's presence in Pakistan 'for years'.
A senior DGCA official said that the flight has been grounded and a detailed probe has been ordered into the matter. All the passengers are safe.
Chinese nationals teaching Mandarin in different parts of Pakistan have left for home after being called back by Beijing following the recent deadly attacks targeting them, an official of the Karachi University said on Monday.
Pakistan lost two early wickets before captain Babar Azam steadied the ship with an innings of 79.
Three pistol-waving bearded men stormed a 60-year-old temple in Karachi and desecrated the idol of a Hindu deity, leading to fear among the minority community in Pakistan's largest city, a media report said on Tuesday.
The suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Karachi on Monday, in which 40 people were killed and over 95 sustained injuries, has added to the Pakistan government's woes, as the attack may spell more trouble by igniting massive sectarian clashes.
New Zealand set Pakistan a tricky target of 319 and then landed two late blows to boost their hopes of a series-clinching victory in the second Test on Thursday.
Tensions continue to mount on Tuesday with sporadic incidents of violence in Pakistan's commercial capital, even as the Sindh government is contemplating calling the Army to control the recent spate of ethnic and political clashes that has left 25 dead in last few days.
Shiv Sena on Friday attacked Bollywood super star Shah Rukh Khan for raising concern about the exclusion of Pakistani players from the Indian Premier League and dared him to take the players in his team Kolkata Knight Riders.
Pakistan Army troops were deployed in Punjab on Wednesday to maintain law and order in the most populous province after violent protests in several cities and attacks on military installations following the dramatic arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan in a corruption case.
Karachi is considered the safest place by the Taliban to hide in Pakistan. According to a Newsweek report, the Taliban is hardly worried by US' plans to send in more troops to Afghanistan, and believes that as far as they do not foment terror, they can live safely in the city.
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