Butt was suspended for five years for his role in spot-fixing during the Pakistan and England Test match in August, 2010.
In a display of extra-ordinary courage, the conductor of the bus attacked by Islamic State militants in Pakistan's Karachi city today drove the vehicle to a hospital with the dead and the injured, despite being himself wounded.
Pakistan's largest city and business hub was paralysed on Friday on a strike call given by Imran Khan's party as part of its countrywide protests against the Nawaz Sharif government for allegedly rigging last year's polls.
This would be the second cyclonic storm in the Arabian Sea this year.
The blast in Baldia Town area of the port city appeared to be accidental and bomb disposal squad personnel were trying to determine its exact nature, police officials said. Two Kalashnikov assault rifles, 22 grenades and two suicide jackets were found in the one-room house, which collapsed due to the explosion.
At least nine people were killed and scores injured in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi On Tuesday as a fallout of political violence triggered by the shooting of an Muttahida Quami Movement leader and his brother by unidentified gunmen.
Pakistan navy special forces conduct a counter-terrorism demonstration during IDEAS 2022, the Pakistan government's defence exhibition in Karachi, November 17, 2022
The arrest of Baradar, said to be second-in-command to Omar, is a major blow to the Taliban and is being described as a major success to Obama Administration's war against terrorism in the Af-Pak region.
The brazen Karachi airport attack clearly suggests the role of the Pakistani Taliban's sleeper cells in the city that must have planned it during the interval when their central leadership was busy talking peace with the government, a media report said on Thursday.
There was no progress in the formation of a new coalition government in Pakistan on Tuesday as top leaders of the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) and the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) failed to agree on a power-sharing deal in their latest round of talks, indicating deepening fissures in the country's political landscape.
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Tehreek-e-Taliban militants, who launched a major assault on Pakistan's largest airport in Karachi, were carrying XStat devices, which can heal gunshot wounds within seconds and were aiming for a long siege of the facility, a security official said on Monday.
Sydneysider Warner went into the current series with question marks over his form due to a lack of test runs, but a rapidfire 164 in the first innings of the opening test in Perth erased any doubts over his position in the team.
Gunmen storm a police outpost near Karachi airport, force victims to recite prayers before shooting them down.
At least seven persons, including wife and daughter of a Balochistan assembly lawmaker, were shot dead in a fresh outbreak of violence in Karachi.
England spinner Rehan Ahmed has been added to the Ashes squad for the second Test against Australia.
Pakistani authorities on Friday issued shoot-at-sight orders and ordered deployment of 1,000 additional paramilitary troops in Karachi as vicious violence continued to paralyse the country's financial capital, leaving nearly 95 people dead in last four days.
Asad Rauf deprived Moin Khan of the strike in the penultimate over when Pakistan were 10 runs short of victory.
The civil war-like situation in Karachi continues without respite. Seventy-three persons belonging to different communities and religious sects were reported to have been killed -- many of them in targeted shootings and some kidnapped and tortured to death --during four days of fresh violence between August 16 and 19. The level of violence considerably came down on August 20.
He is only the agent that can bring them that change for they are quite aware that he has articulated no vision on how to set Pakistan back on the rails, notes Lieutenant General Gautam Moorthy (retd).
During interrogation, Ajmal Amin Kasab, a militant arrested during the siege, said that they had boarded Al Husseni docked at a distance from Karachi port and were to be dropped near Mumbai waters, official sources said. Kasab, who hails from a poor family of Multan, Punjab, told investigators that they made a last minute decision to shift a Indian vessel to avoid detection by Indian Navy and Coast Guard.
The courts in Pakistan have been flooded with petitions as candidates, mostly backed by jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), challenged the results of Thursday's general elections, alleging rigging.
"The airport has been cleared. The security forces killed seven terrorists while three blew themselves up during the fight," Director General, Rangers, Major General Rizwan Akhtar told media. "Very soon we will hand over the airport to the civilian aviation authority to start its normal operations," he said. "The attack is over and we have cleared the area of all militants, and we will hand over the airport to the Civil Aviation Authority at 12.00 pm (0700 GMT)," paramilitary Rangers spokesman Sibtain Rizvi told reporters.
The bomber targeted the residence of Special Superintendent of Police Chaudhry Aslam of the Crime Investigation Department in the posh Defence area at 7.30 am.
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Supporters of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party protest the hike in fuel prices in Pakistan.
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.
Two navy sailors and a civilian were killed, a naval spokesman told the media. Over 15 injured people, including civilians, were taken to two nearby hospitals.
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.
Since Sunday there have been around 50 such attacks carried out in the province and in one incident in Sibi town attackers targeted an election rally of a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf party-backed candidate for the National Assembly in which four people lost their lives and six were injured.
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.
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.
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.
Leaders and members of the Hindu community rue the fact that they are not given proper representation and many are not even registered as voters.
"The team management has not requested for his replacement at this stage," the PCB said in a statement. "Both Pakistan and England teams will travel to Karachi tomorrow afternoon."
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.
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.
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