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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Pakistan News.Net http://www.pakistannews.net/ en-us Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:18:23 -0500 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:18:23 -0500 30 In the third terrorist attack in two days, a Pakistani court has been targeted by a suicide bomber leaving at least ten dead. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611698 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:31:49 -0500 Big New Network.com http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611698 Twin suicide bombings in the Pakistani city of Lahore have killed and wounded scores of people. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611532 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:36:32 -0500 Pakistan News.Net http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611532 Pakistan has seen an unprecedented rise in the number of suicide attacks carried out across the country and loss of life during the first 70 days of 2010 compared to the same period last year. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611707 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:50:06 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611707 India has rebuffed the statements emanating from Pakistan alleging Indian hands in series of attacks, which rocked Lahore on Friday. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611695 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:20:04 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611695 At least 14 people were killed and 52 wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a security checkpost in Pakistan's Mingora town in restive Swat Valley, police said Saturday, a day after twin blasts claimed 57 lives in Lahore. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611689 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:20:01 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611689 Reprimanding the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) over its dilly-dallying attitude, the Pakistan Supreme Court has asked the bureau to "stop playing hide and seek" over the immunity status granted to President Asif Ali Zardari and seek the custody of the documents relating to the 60 million dollar money laundering case which the government had withdrawn from Swiss courts. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611680 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:30:07 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611680 Pakistan Air Force (PAF) will conduct its biggest exercise in the third week of this month. It will cover the entire country from Skardu in the north to Arabian Sea in the south and will last 45 days. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611666 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:50:02 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611666 After brief lull in violence and bloodshed in the country, Lahore was rattled with a series of bomb blasts in Friday, which has certainly put a question mark over the claims of the political and military leadership that the Taliban's back has been broken. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611662 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:40:11 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611662 Separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani has called for a boycott of village and urban local body polls in Jammu and Kashmir due to be held next month. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611656 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:40:07 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611656 Thirteen-year-old Atiq Ahmad was reunited with his family on Friday after he was deported back to Pakistan through Wagah Border, within hours of his release from Hoshiarpur. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611650 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:40:04 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611650 Majority of think tanks and experts have informed the US Congress of the close coordination between the Lashkar-e-Toiba and the Inter Services Intelligence organization of Pakistan in promoting Islamic militancy in south Asia. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611636 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:20:13 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611636 Following the recent surge in bloodshed in Pakistan, Britain has issued a travel advisory to its citizens warning them against travelling to the troubled country. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611625 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:40:05 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611625 The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has warned of intensifying attacks on security forces in Bajaur region of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) if does not stop the offensive against extremists in the region. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611621 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:40:03 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611621 At least 10 people were killed and 37 injured when a suicide bomber targeted a security forces' check post in Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley Saturday, police said. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611617 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:30:01 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611617 Cricketers banned by the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) are unlikely to challenge the board's decision in the court of law, sources said. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611611 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:06 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611611 Blaming the controversial private US security firm, Blackwater, for the recent bloodshed in the country, Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) chief Syed Munawar Hasan has said that the security firm is working under the 'supervision' of Interior Minister Rehman Malik. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611610 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:05 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611610 The toll in the twin suicide attacks here Friday has risen to 57, even as seven low-intensity blasts late at night kept police on their toes for over eight hours. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611607 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:00:03 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611607 Following a series of bomb blasts in Lahore, in which at least 42 people were killed and over 100 injured, extremists struck again on Saturday killing six person and injuring 12 others in a suicide attack in Mingora, the largest city in the Swat District in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611590 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:40:09 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611590 The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has announced a 15-man squad sans the name of the skipper for the forthcoming ICC T20 World Championship in the Caribbean. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611582 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:40:04 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611582 Following the serial bomb blasts in Lahore, security has been beefed up in Peshawar with officials expressing fears over the city being next on the terror hit list. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611581 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:40:03 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611581 Just hours after Lahore was rocked with two powerful bomb blasts which killed 42 persons and wounded over 100, the city was rattled with six low intensity blasts petrifying local citizens further. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611579 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:40:02 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611579 Pakistan's oil mafia is alleged to have siphoned Rs.90 billion annually during former president Pervez Musharraf's tenure by supplying substandard diesel at the rates of the high quality premium variety, a media report said Saturday. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611569 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:20:04 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611569 Yet another blast rocked a market place in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore Friday. This is the fourth explosion in the area in the past 12 hours. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611492 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:10:02 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611492 Hours after two suicide attacks targeted a military convoy in Lahore, killing at least 48 people Friday, a powerful third blast ripped through a crowded market place in Pakistan's eastern city. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611489 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:50:02 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611489 Visiting women entrepreneurs from Pakistan on Friday called for strengthening of trade and commerce with India. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611485 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:20:07 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611485 Archaeologists are restoring medieval Mughal buildings in Jammu and Kashmir, in a bid to boost tourism in the state. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611417 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:10:03 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611417 Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who is here on a two-day visit, has expressed his concern over terrorism emanating from the AFPAK region and the danger it poses to India's security interests, but at the same time, has also hailed Pakistan's counter-terrorism efforts. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611405 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:20:04 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611405 Pakistan on Friday reportedly test-fired a number of missiles and torpedoes, acquired from other countries, from ships and submarines in the Arabian Sea. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611346 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:20:10 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611346 The Jammu and Kashmir Government has encouraged hundreds of girl students to rejoin school in militancy-hit Rajouri District. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611333 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:12 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611333 The death toll in twin bomb blasts which rocked Lahore's cantonment area on Friday noon has reached 40 and over 100 injured as police officials confirmed that the target of the suicide attackers were the Pakistani army vehicles. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611330 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:10 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611330 The Lahore High Court will give its verdict on a petition filed by controversial Pakistani nuclear scientist Dr A Q Khan on March 22. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611324 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:07 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611324 Over ninety percent women in Pakistan are suffering from some form of gender-based violence, according to speakers at a seminar. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611325 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:10:07 -0500 ANI http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611325 Holders Pakistan Friday announced their final 15-man squad, without naming the captain, for the World Twenty20 championship in the West Indies. http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611392 Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:00:03 -0500 IANS http://www.pakistannews.net/story/611392 By ASSOCIATED PRESS ISLAMABAD (AP) -- Officials say at least five people have been killed in a suicide car bombing in northwest Pakistan. Army spokesman Maj. Mushtaq Khan says the attacker detonat... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091242&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:52:26 -0500 Washington Times http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091242&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Pakistan's army troops remove a dead body from the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security che... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091217&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:45:20 -0500 San Diego Union-Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091217&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 (AP Photo/Naveed Ali)Pakistan's army troops remove a dead body from the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091309&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:34:06 -0500 Examiner http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091309&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, officials said, killing at least 13 people, injuring 52 and underscoring th... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091302&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:28:36 -0500 The Seattle Times http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091302&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 The petition against former president Musharraf is technically outdated but is relevant to the current political scenario as it involves the legal question of whether or not the president can hold an ... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091449&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:17:21 -0500 Dawn http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091449&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 The suicide blasts come seconds apart and fan fears of a new wave of militant violence after a period of calm. Pakistanis had been gaining confidence that offensives were shutting down the Taliban. http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091280&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:14:02 -0500 Los Angeles Times http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091280&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Pakistan's army troops remove a dead body from the site of suicide bombing in Saidu Sharif, a town of Pakistan's Swat Valley, Saturday, March 13, 2010. A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint ... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091306&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:56:24 -0500 China Daily http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091306&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 ISLAMABAD (AP) - A suicide bomber driving a motorized rickshaw blew himself up at a security checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and ... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091310&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:55:12 -0500 Breitbart http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091310&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Pakistani security officers visit the site of suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan, Friday, March 12, 2010. A pair of suicide bombers targeting army vehicles detonated explosives within seconds of each... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091298&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:50:36 -0500 Yahoo! News http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33091298&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A suicide bomber targeting security forces in Pakistan on Saturday killed at least 11 people, police said. The assault near a security checkpost in Swat Valley, which also wounded 35 people, came a da... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090024&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:33:36 -0500 World Bulletin http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090024&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AFP) - At least ten people were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Swat valley on Saturday, a day after a series of bombings brought chaos and bloodshed to the city of La... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090015&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:31:11 -0500 West Australian http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090015&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A suicide attacker set off a bomb at a security checkpoint in north-west Pakistan today, killing at least 10 people and injuring 52, officials and a doctor said, underscoring the relentless security t... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090016&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 04:09:20 -0500 Breaking News.ie http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090016&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Gilani said on Friday that his democratic government did not believe in political victimisation and it was for the first time that there was no political prisoner in any jail... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090168&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:21 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090168&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 PESHAWAR: The government and opposition legislators in the NWFP Assembly Friday expressed concern over the deteriorating law and order in the province. http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090169&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:21 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090169&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Malik Ammad Khan Friday said that the US law regarding screening of Pakistani nationals at American airports was humiliating and it was affecting the P... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090170&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:20 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090170&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Karachi: The targeted attacks on Aalmi Majlis-e-Tahafuza-e-Khatam-e-Naboowat (AMTKN) Chief Mufti Saeed Jalalpuri and leader of banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090171&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:19 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090171&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 LONDON: PML-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif on Friday repeated that he would continue to consider President Zardari as the biggest threat to democracy in Pakistan until he changed his ways, for which he wou... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090173&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:18 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090173&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Friday directed NAB to write a letter to Swiss courts for reopening the cases against President Asif Ali Zardari, besides directing it to furnish a report on reportedly... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090172&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:17 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090172&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 MINGORA: At least ten people were killed and 52 others injured in a suicide blast outside District Court in Swat tehsil of Mingora, Geo News reported Saturday. http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090175&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:41:16 -0500 Pak Tribune http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33090175&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Turkey has strongly condemned twin suicide bombings that killed at least 45 people in Pakistan. In a statement, Turkish Foreign Ministry expressed Friday solidarity with Pakistan's government and ... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088707&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:14:37 -0500 World Bulletin http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088707&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A suicide bomber targeting security forces in Pakistan's Swat Valley has killed at least ten people, police said. The assault near a security check post came a day after a suicide attack on the milit... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088493&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 03:04:41 -0500 RTE http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088493&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A top expert told US lawmakers that terrorist outfits like Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) will no longer be satisfied by a resolution on Kashmir between India and Pakistan, bringing into light the possibility ... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088574&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:55:34 -0500 Express India http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088574&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 26. The attacker, who was in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, detonated exp... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088472&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:42:45 -0500 CBC News http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088472&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Taliban uprising. "Eight people have been killed and more than 16 were wounded. It was a suicide attack," senior police official Qazi Jamil told AFP by telephone. Three security personnel... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088265&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 02:09:11 -0500 Yahoo! News http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33088265&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 A suicide attacker struck a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan on Saturday, killing at least seven people and injuring 26. The attacker, who was in a three-wheeled auto-rickshaw, detonated exp... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33086775&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:16:31 -0500 CBC News http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33086775&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 LAHORE, Pakistan — Two suicide bombers killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts Friday, the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week and a clear sign that militants have the power to strike... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33086880&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:00:30 -0500 Deseret News http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33086880&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Responding to the increase in cross-border trade, the railway authorities in India and Pakistan have decided to increase the frequency of the goods train between Attari and Lahore to thrice a day. Th... http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33085497&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7 Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:07:18 -0500 Hindustan Times http://feeds.pakistannews.net/?rid=33085497&cat=8c3d7d78943a99c7