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Thursday, May 28, 2009

Terror comes home to Inter Services Intelligence

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Pakistan's political was attacked yet again when gunmen detonated a car bomb on Wednesday near police and Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) offices that killed about 35 people and wounded 250.

The blast, in which several ISI agents were reported killed, flattened one building and sheared the walls off others in one of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan this year.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the bombing could be retaliation to the government’s military offensive to rout Taliban militants from the northwestern Swat Valley.

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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Battlefield Lahore

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Pakistani commandos regained control of a police academy outside Lahore on Monday evening after militants rampaged through the complex, killing at least eight cadets and wounding scores before holing up inside for hours.

Fighters loyal to Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud were suspected of carrying the attack, interior ministry head Rehman Malik told a news conference. He said one of the suspects was an Afghan.

“Four terrorists were killed and three arrested,” interior ministry secretary Kamal Shah said. He said 89 policemen were wounded.

Punjab police chief Khawaja Khalid Farooq said eight recruits were killed though there had been reports the toll would be higher as there were 900 cadets in the academy at the time of the attack.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Zardari blinks, Pakistan exults

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Iftikhar Chaudhry was propelled by a mass of agitating lawyers, political activists and former PM Nawaz Sharif to his rightful position as the chief justice of Pakistan in the early hours of Monday .

In a swift response to the surprising change of tack by President Asif Ali Zardari, Sharif, who had set off on a ‘long march’ from Lahore to Islamabad on Sunday, ended the agitation and declared victory “We have got the fruit of our two-year struggle,” the PML-N chief told supporters after ending the march.

Following intense pressure mounted by Army Chief Ashfaq Kayani and the United States, PM Yusuf Raza Gilani announced in a televised address that Chaudhry and other judges sacked in November 2007 would be able to resume their duties.

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Friday, March 6, 2009

Murali hints at insider role

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Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan hit out at the security arrangements in Pakistan and suspected militants had inside information about their movement.

“Somehow in this incident there were no police with guns on the bus,” the 36-year-old off-spinner said.

“If someone was there with a gun we would have had a chance of defending ourselves,” he said.

“Normally all the buses go and , we have four or five escorts,” Murali said, revealing his anguish that there could have been inside information about the Sri Lankan team's bus route to the Gaddafi Stadium.

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Friday, February 6, 2009

2 Indian journalists beaten up in Lahore

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At a time when India and Pakistan are involved in high pitched rhetoric on 26/11, unidentified persons roughed up two Indian media persons in Lahore on Thursday They . snatched their camera, mobile phones and credit cards before leaving. The incident is expected to further fuel tensions between the two neighbours.

Significantly the two News , X journalists — Jujhar Singh and Tilak Raj — had run an investigative story on Wednesday where they had traced the shop from where engines for the boats used in the Mumbai attacks were reportedly purchased. They had also gone up to the barricades guarding the house of Jamat-ud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed on Wednesday night, where they were questioned by the security.

Immediately after the attack, the South Asian Free Media Association (SAFMA), a body of journalists from South Asian countries, swung into action to help the assaulted media persons.

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