Pakistani authorities have arrested two militants and a Syrian national in Lahore for their alleged role in recruiting people to the Islamic State terror group.
Posters, stickers and wall-chalking supporting Islamic State terror group have appeared some 15 kilometres from Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's Lahore farmhouse, prompting authorities to launch a probe into the possible presence of the dreaded militant outfit in the city.
A well-informed source close to Shaheen said that the bowler was upset that not even once the PCB Chairman Mohsin Naqvi or the national selectors have spoken to him about their future plans as far as the captaincy or appointment of coaches is concerned.
Lahore Qalandars took to Twitter and shared the pictures from Shaheen's wedding ceremony.
Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi appeared in the Lahore high court for protective bail.
Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC) made it clear during the ACC council meeting in Bali last week that it was not willing to take the financial burden as it did not earn extra and was also not the official host of the tournament.
PCB unhappy with ACC President Jay Shah revealing Asia Cup schedule before official ceremony.
India to open campaign against Pakistan in Kandy on Sep 2, meet again in Colombo on Sep 10
Pakistan's Punjab police have booked former prime minister Imran Khan and 1,500 of his party workers for attacking and setting on fire a top army officer's house in Lahore.
The PCB will try to get more matches of the Asia Cup to be staged in Pakistan when the ACC board meets in Dubai on Sunday.
Sharif, 73, returned home on a special flight from Dubai, ending a four-year self-imposed exile in the UK, to head his party and try to secure a record fourth term in the general elections expected to be held in January.
Jailed ex-Pakistan premier Imran Khan's party-backed independent candidates on Friday sprang a surprise by winning 86 seats out of the 201 results declared following unusual delays and allegations of rigging, as the country appeared heading towards a hung assembly.
Rubbishing Ehsan Mani's claim that PCB was dragging its feet on the resumption of international cricket in Pakistan by delaying the report on the Lahore attack, board chief Ejaz Butt said they were ready with the document but were awaiting government's clearance to submit it to ICC.
The movie redeems itself somewhat by intently playing on the paradox of pacifist intentions realised in the face of a seriously hostile sport.
This is purely cricketing invitation and shouldn't be mixed with politics: BCCI VP Shukla on Pakistan visit
Barring 2004 and 2009 when Navjot Singh Sidhu won the Amritsar seat as a BJP MP and 1998 when Daya Singh Sodhi from BJP was elected as the MP, it has essentially a Congress bastion.
India has also taken note of reports of Saeed's son Talha contesting elections in Pakistan and said the "mainstreaming" of radical terror outfits in the neighbouring country is nothing new and that it has been part of its State policy for a long time.
'I don't think this is such a big issue ... why make an ego issue of it and insist on playing in Dubai only'
Lahore's Aanaahad on his debut film and winning a Best Actor award for it.
But the ISI chief did not retire giving the impression that he has won General Asim Munir's trust, notes Rana Banerji who headed the Pakistan desk at RA&W.
Sooraj Barjatya organised a special screening of his son Avnish's directorial debut venture Dono, which also launches the careers of Sunny Deol's son Rajveer and Poonam Dhillon's daughter Paloma.
Hafiz Saeed has confirmed that his organisation Jammat-ud-Dawa would contest the 2018 general elections under the banner of the MML.
In yet another historic step, India and Pakistan Friday opened the third road link between the two countries as the first Lahore-Amritsar bus crossed the Joint Check Post at the Indo-Pak border in Wagah.
The last word may not have been said on the churnings within the Pakistan army or the extent to which army chief General Asim Munir is in control, notes Rana Banerji, who headed the Pakistan desk at RAW, India's external intelligence agency.
Singh will meet President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz. He will also visit 'Nankana Sahib', near Lahore, the birthplace of Guru Nanak.
From the Indian side, the first bus will ply on January 24.
Nearly three months after his house arrest, Lashkar-e-Tayiba founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed was produced before a court in Lahore on Monday for the first time in connection with the Mumbai attacks by Pakistani authorities which sought extension of his detention.
Senior Jamaat-ud-Dawah leader Nazir Ahmed, who has been under house arrest since early December in the wake of the Mumbai terror attacks, has been shifted from Rawalpindi to Lahore.A retired colonel in the Pakistan army, Ahmed was detained along with over 50 militant leaders in December last year, when the government launched a crackdown on the Jamaat and its parent organisation, the outlawed Lashker-e-Tayiba, in the wake of the Mumbai attacks.
'...It is important for you to take a stand.' 'It is a sin to remain silent when the basic structure of the Constitution is being attacked.'
The film release in India and Pakistan on July 18.
A little-known militant Muhammad Aqil has been identified by the Pakistani security agencies as the mastermind of the audacious attack on the Sri Lankan cricketers in Lahore, but raids across the city to nab him proved futile on Monday as he managed to escape.
The Pakistan police on Wednesday released sketches of four of the terrorists involved in the attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team. The sketches, prepared from the descriptions provided by witnesses, depicted four young men. The sketches were released by the police in Lahore a day after the brazen attack on the Lankan team's bus killed eight persons and injured 20 others, including 7 players and a coach. Officials said the attack was carried out by a dozen heavily armed men.
Limbani, the lanky 18-year-old right-armer from Baroda, who primarily bowls inswingers at mid 120s, didn't let any of the Nepalese batters settle down and pitched it up, getting sufficient movement.
After two consecutive defeats, Lahore Badshahs won their first match in the Indian Cricket League Twenty20 Championship, beating Ahmedabad Rockets by 31 runs, at the Sardar Vallabbhai Patel stadium, in Ahmedabad, on Sunday night.
Opener Hamish Marshall's unbeaten 76 and Upul Chandana's four-wicket haul enabled Royal Bengal Tigers score an eight-wicket victory over Lahore Badshahs in the Indian Cricket League T20 encounter at the Lal Bahadur Shastri stadium in Hyderabad on Sunday night. Chasing a target of 140, Marshall played a fine innings from the beginning and went on to score 76 runs, including two sixes and nine boundaries off 53 balls.
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