Pakistani authorities have arrested nearly 200 people on charges of involvement in violent protests against an anti-Islam film even as businesses on Saturday counted the cost of a countrywide shutdown and widespread destruction during the demonstrations.
Under pressure from India and the United States to act against Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed, the mastermind of Mumbai terror attack, the Pakistani police today registered cases against him and one of his close aides Abu Jandal under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
A statement issued by the Interior Ministry also said the crackdown on Jaish 'has been taken in line with the decision of the NSC meeting'.
The harrowing tragedy struck Pakistan's Punjab province on Sunday just a day before Eid celebrations when a tanker carrying 40,000 litres of petrol overturned and burst into flames as hundreds of villagers had gathered to collect the fuel spilled over on the highway at the Ahmedpur Sharqia area of the Bahawalpur district, some 400 km from Lahore.
Pakistan Test batsman Umar Akmal has been detained by police for questioning after being accused of assaulting a police warden in his hometown of Lahore.
About 50 people have been arrested in this eastern Pakistani city after a mob torched over 150 houses of the minority Christian community in search of an alleged blasphemer.
Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf, who is embroiled in the IPL spot-fixing scandal, broke his silence for the first time since his name cropped up in the Mumbai police's investigation, saying he is ready to face the ICC's Anti-Corruption and Security Unit to clear his name.
Have we been allowed to forget Partition? Isn't Partition the reason many Hindus cannot bring themselves to trust Muslims? So many Muslims born after 1947 have told me with anguish: "How long will we be blamed for Partition?" notes Jyoti Punwani.
Manjit Singh Rattu, arrested by police in Chandigarh on Thursday and remanded to two days police custody by a local court in a cheque dishonour case, on Friday denied any role in the blasts for which Sarabjit had been sentenced to death in Pakistan.
The venues for India's first two one-dayers in Pakistan in February may be switched due to a shortage of security personnel.
The venues for Pakistan's first two ODIs against India may be switched due to a shortage of security personnel
Pakistan has rejected as "unfounded" a terror alert in India that linked three men from Lahore to Lashkar-e-Tayiba, even as the trio sought protection from authorities after reports about them appeared in Indian media.
Two clerics and four women were among 59 people indicted by a Pakistani anti-terrorism court on Wednesday for burning alive a Christian couple over alleged desecration of the Quran in Punjab province.
Pakistani law enforcement agencies have arrested two members of the Taliban on charges of involvement in the kidnapping of American Non-Governmental-Organisation worker Warren Weinstein from the city in August last year.
Sardar Udham sets a great standard which, Utkarsh Mishra believes, would be emulated by other film-makers who want to make movies of this genre.
A deaf and mute Indian woman, who inadvertently strayed into Pakistan at least 12 years ago, is desperate to return home to her parents.
A Pakistani court on Monday admitted a petition filed by banned Jamaat-ud-Dawah chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed challenging two cases registered against him by police under the Anti-Terrorism Act for inciting people to wage 'jehad'.
The released Indian nationals were later put on four buses, which will take them to Wagah border near Lahore for their handing over to the Indian authorities on Sunday.
The Bethel Memorial Church has been the target of a terrorist attack in the past.
One of the terrorists arrested for Monday's attack on a police training centre in Lahore is an Afghan national, interior ministry chief Rehman Malik said.
To ensure foolproof security and prevent any Lahore-like attack on sportsmen during the 2010 Commonwealth Games, the Centre has sanctioned nearly Rs 80 crore to Delhi Police to upgrade its inventory and equipment. An Empowered Security Committee headed by Union Home Secretary and a Commonwealth Games Security Review Committee headed by Additional Secretary (Centre-State) have been constituted in the Home Ministry to review the security arrangements for the Games.
Fresh protests broke out in Lahore on Thursday as police prevented the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz legislators from entering the Punjab assembly to hold a session after the sacking of provincial administration led by Shahbaz Sharif.
As the furore over the arrest of a minor Christian girl over blasphemy charge is yet to die down, the body of an 11-year-old boy from the minority community, bearing torture marks, was found in Faisalabad city of Pakistan's Punjab province on Wednesday, the police said.
The National Accountability Bureau officials took Sharif, 68, and Maryam, 44, into custody in the Avenfield case, shortly after their arrival at Lahore airport from London via Abu Dhabi. They were flown to Islamabad on a special aircraft and then were taken to the Adiala Jail in separate armoured personnel carriers escorted by police convoys.
Senior Pakistan People's Party leader Syed Talib Husain Shah was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Gujrat district of Punjab province, police officials said on Wednesday.
Two bombs ripped through crowded bazaars in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar today killing at least one person and wounding 20, barely a day after terrorists struck in Lahore targeting ISI's provincial headquarters which claimed 35 lives.
Top Lashkar-e-Tayiba bomb expert Abdul Karim Tunda told interrogators that he had come in contact with Pakistan's spy agency Inter Services Intelligence after meeting former ISI Chief Hamid Gul in 1995 and was in constant touch with him thereafter.
She also asked them to differentiate between stone-pelters/militants and their families.
The Jamaat-ud-Dawah on Tuesday beefed up security at the residence of its chief Hafiz Mohammad Saeed in the Pakistani city of Lahore after the US announced a 10-million dollar bounty for the man accused of masterminding the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
Pakistan plunged deeper into a political chaos on Sunday night as a defiant Nawaz Sharif joined by tens of thousands of supporters in Lahore was headed towards Islamabad for a mass sit-in front of Parliament on Monday amid reports that a Inspector General of Police of Punjab province's police and several senior officials had resigned and joined his 'long march' for the restoration of the Constitution.
A Christian woman was brutally tortured and paraded in the streets of a village in Pakistan's Punjab province by a mob for her alleged "anti-Islam views", local residents and police officials said on Friday.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy's next film is about aging Pakistani musicians who get a second chance because of jazz.
Reports said the woman who had allegedly eloped with a man of another village returned home a week later.
However, the board refused to allow the same in the detention of his four aides.
The accident occurred near Pattoki, when the bus carrying more than 60 passengers was going from Lahore to Multan, police said.
Shahbaz Taseer, the son of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer who was killed for opposing Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws, was today abducted by four gunmen near his office in Lahore.
At least 54 people, including 11 women and security personnel, were killed and about 200 others injured in a powerful suicide blast in Pakistan at Wagah on Sunday, minutes after the popular flag-lowering ceremony at the Indo-Pak border.
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Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti expressed anguish over the loss of lives and stressed the need for peace "if we want to save the people of the state".
Woman killed in car accident involving Pak diplomat
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