Sri Lanka will play a Twenty20 international in Lahore on October 29, returning to the city for the first time since they suffered a gun and grenade attack in 2009, Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) confirmed.
An anti-terrorism court in Pakistan on Wednesday indicted Mumbai terror attack mastermind Hafiz Saeed on terror financing charges and is now being detained at the Kot Lakhpat jail.
Pakistan's intelligence agency detained bothe the clericks for their alleged links with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, official sources said on Saturday.
United Nations proscribed terrorist Lakhvi, 61, who was on bail since 2015 in the Mumbai attack case, was arrested by the Counter-Terrorism Department of Punjab province on Saturday.
'Given the past practice in the Pakistan army, this delay is most unusual,' notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at the Research and Analysis Wing, India's external intelligence agency.
One of the suspects Arsalan, a friend of prime suspect Mohammad Hassan who married the Sikh girl, has been arrested.
Pakistan had reportedly launched 'strikes' against militant bases in Afghanistan on Saturday.
The Pakistani police have arrested a vendor under the controversial blasphemy law for allegedly burning the pages of Quran in Lahore, officials said on Tuesday.
Ahsan Iqbal sustained a bullet wound to his right shoulder when was attending a corner meeting in Narowal's Kanjrur Tehsil.
A Pakistani couple has been murdered in Lahore for marrying without their family's consent, the second incident of "honour killing" within a week in the city.
Amid high drama, Canada-based divisive cleric Tahir-ul-Qadri returned to Pakistan on Monday after authorities diverted his Islamabad-bound flight to Lahore fearing unrest in the capital, as clashes between his supporters and the police left many injured.
Ill-fated Kirpal from Gurdaspur has reportedly been acquitted of bomb blast charges by the Lahore high court but his death sentence could not be commuted because of unknown reasons.
The court sentenced Saeed to five-and-a-half years and imposed a fine of Rs 15,000 in each case. The sentences of both cases will run concurrently.
Krishna chants gained more currency when Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav invoked the deity.
The security agencies in Pakistan are clueless about the whereabouts of these 19 most wanted terrorists. Some of them have been hiding in Pakistan and others are believed to have fled the country.
After a decade spent trying to woo back cricket's international elite, Pakistan is facing the prospect of being declared the game's no-go area again, and the anger is palpable.
Pakistan beat the touring World XI on Friday by 33 runs in the final Twenty20 fixture in Lahore to win the three match series 2-1 and thrill home fans excited by the return of international cricket.
For the first time since the Pak-India Dosti bus service was launched between New Delhi and Lahore, Pakistan has restricted its entry in Lahore and Nankana Sahib cities, citing increased "terror threats".
Pakistan's former fast bowler, Shoaib Akhtar has cautioned against inviting any foreign teams to Pakistan in the prevailing security situation in the country. Speaking two days after the terrorist attack on the police training centre in Quetta in which 62 police cadets and two armymen were killed and around 170 injured, Akhtar said that the security situation in the country was not good. "Until there is a complete normalcy as far as security situation is concerned we shouldn't take the risk of inviting any foreign team to Pakistan," he said on Geo News channel.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Lahore on Friday for a meeting with his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif in a surprise visit to this country -- the first visit to Pakistan by an Indian premier in more than 10 years.
"This is the madrassah (seminary) and India is doing propaganda that it is the JeM headquarters," Chaudhry said.
There were no immediate reports of any loss of life or damage to property.
The widow of one of the Pakistani men shot dead by CIA contractor Raymond Davis was on Monday murdered along with her mother in Lahore following a family dispute over the blood money and her desire to remarry, police officials said.
The Supreme Court overturned the conviction, a landmark verdict on Wednesday that sparked nationwide protests, death threats from hardline groups.
The mini-bus carrying around 26 Sikh pilgrims, all from Peshawar, hit the Shah Hussain Express which was coming from Karachi to Lahore at a crossing near Sheikhupura district at around 1.30 pm, police said.
The two were convicted on July 6 in the Avenfield properties case linked to the Sharif family's ownership of four luxury flats in London.
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The custodian Abdul Waheed, who was apparently suffering from mental disease, used a dagger and a stick to kill his victims.
The Mumbai attack mastermind had indicated about a week before his arrest that he might launch Tehreek Azadi Jammu and Kashmir (TAJK) to 'expedite the freedom of Kashmir'.
Reports suggested that hundreds of angry residents at Nankana Sahib pelted the Sikh pilgrims with stones on Friday.
A Pakistani court has directed the police to take action against the driver of a speeding United States consulate vehicle that killed a motorcyclist while rushing to aid American official Raymond Davis, arrested after he gunned down two men in Lahore.
The main accused in the brutal attack on Indian national Sarabjit Singh in a Pakistani jail have told investigators that they planned to kill him to take revenge for bombings he was accused of carrying out in Lahore.
Adiala jail authorities have limited the movement of Sharif after some prisoners started chanting slogans against him as he was out for a stroll in the courtyard of his barrack on Thursday morning.
Maryam and her husband are likely to file an appeal challenging the verdict in the Avenfield Properties corruption case.
A Pakistani court on Saturday ordered framing of murder charges against Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, his brother and Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz and 19 others over the June violence near Canada-based cleric Tahirul Qadri's headquarters here that killed 14 of his supporters.
World XI captain Faf du Plessis on Monday said that their tour of Pakistan is not just about playing a series but way bigger than that where the crazy fans get a dose of top flight international cricket.
Terrorists struck in a big way on Thursday, storming Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency building in Lahore and attacking three police facilities in synchronised attacks that killed at least 23 people. A suicide bomber also rammed in an explosive-laden vehicle in northwest Pakistan's Kohat town, killing 10 people.
The founder of Lashkar-e-Tayiba also vowed to continue supporting Kashmiris.
At least 25 people, including three children, were killed and 15 others injured in a fire at a shoe factory in Lahore city on Tuesday.
Separatist leader Asiya Andrabi was arrested from her residence in Shoura, Srinagar on Friday for anti-national activities.
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