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LAHORE: Pakistan won its first 2 matches in the Asian U-19 Beach Volleyball Championship at Thailand on Friday. The national U-19 beach volleyball team consisting of two players namely Zarnab and Afaq are participating in the Championship. The top two teams of this tournament will qualify for the ...
On the same tour, terrorists attacked the Sri Lanka team bus at Lahore. On March 3, 2009, the bus carrying the visiting cricketers, part of a large convoy, was fired upon by 12 gunmen near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. They were on their way to play the third day of the second test against Pakistan, and six ...

LAHORE: Three children were killed in an area on Bedian Road in the city, said the police on Saturday. According to the police, the children were choked to death by their mother Anika. However, police said, the woman accused a friend of hers of the killing. Police said when they reached Anika's house ...
LAHORE: Thousands of citizens flocked to city roads to celebrate Pakistan Day with traditional zeal and enthusiasm here on Friday. The city wore a festive look and all the public places especially Greater Iqbal Park was jam-packed with the citizens celebrating Pakistan Resolution, which was approved on ...
Bhagat Singh is not a part of the school curriculum and official narrative of Pakistan that revered only the leaders of the Pakistan Movement and “Muslim” heroes of pre-partition India. However, Bhagat Singh thrives in the folklore of Pakistan and people of the older generations (like my grandfather) still seek ...
With the action of the Pakistan Super League finally returning to Pakistan, rain has played spoilsport for the spectators. Tuesday's eliminator between Quetta Gladiators and Peshawar Zalmi was effected by rain and to avoid a delayed start on Wednesday in Lahore, the organisers used a helicopter to dry the ...

In November, Saeed was freed after 297 days under house arrest on the Lahore High Court's order. The US and India had reacted sharply against his release. Earlier in March, the court had asked the federal government and Punjab province administration to not place Saeed under house arrest again.
Fire brigade and rescue teams reached the spot and shifted the injured to a nearby hospital. LAHORE (Dunya News) – At least five workers were wounded when fire broke out at a shoe factory in Rampura area of Batapur near Lahore in the early hours of Friday.
Lahore's culture is unique. It is sometimes referred as the cultural capital or the heart of Pakistan, the city was a seat of the Mughal Empire and the Sikh Empire as well as the capital of Punjab in Mahmud Ghaznavi's 11th-century empire and in the British Empire. Presently, it is the capital of the Punjab, ...
... of the victims and wishes those injured a speedy recovery,” said a statement from a UN spokesman, which said the Secretary-General calls for the perpetrators of the attack to be brought to justice. The statement went on to say that the UN supports the efforts of the Government of Pakistan to fight terrorism ...
LAHORE: The National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has started an inquiry against Saima Ahad, the wife of former Lahore Development Authority (LDA) director general Ahad Cheema, according to sources. According to sources, the investigation into the case against Cheema has revealed that many of his ...
Pakistani Islamic religuous students gather near the site of a motorcycle bomb attack in Lahore on March 14, 2018. At least seven people were killed and 20 wounded late on March 14 in a motorcycle bomb attack on a police check-post near Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, officials said. The blast took ...
LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - A bomb blast ripped through a police checkpoint in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, killing seven people and wounding 18, a rescue official said. Jam Sajjad Hussain, spokesman of a state-run rescue service, told Reuters that his officials had taken seven dead ...
LAHORE: Women old and young from all walks of life took to the streets here in the provincial capital on Thursday, as part of an 'Aurat March' organised to commemorate the International Women's Day. A large number of women, as well as some men, gathered at the Hamdard Centre in the afternoon from ...
Internation Women's Day was observed across the country on Thursday (8 March) with women from various walks of life participating in events held by both government departments as well as the civil society. Following are the few highlights and captions collected from various areas of Pakistan: Pakistan ...
LAHORE, Pakistan - One of the most frightening things about Pakistan's blasphemy law is that the simplest act can spiral into charges that can bring the death ... Opponents of the blasphemy law say it has turned into a force corroding Pakistani society, feeding extremism, implicating the justice system in ...
LAHORE, Pakistan — On Jan. 13, the police in Karachi, Pakistan, claimed to have killed four militants suspected of having links to the Islamic State. Rao Anwar, the officer ... An operation by the Pakistani Army against militants in the tribal areas in 2014 displaced around a million people. The process of ...

LAHORE: Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Saqib Nisar paid a surprise visit to two government hospitals in the Punjab capital on Friday. ... Accompanied by Lahore High Court Chief Justice Yawar Ali, the chief justice of Pakistan first visited Services Hospital where he inspected various wards, including the ...
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Alice Wells of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs told in a briefing that Pakistani officials had underscored a variety of issues that emanated from ungoverned space in Afghanistan and “we would agree that all of these need to be resolved during the course of ...
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan swept all the age-limit category titles in the Doha Open Squash Championship which concluded in Doha (Qatar) the other day. Pakistani players dominated the Open winning all the titles winning under-13, under-15, under-17 and under-19 age categories at the Khalifa International ...
LAHORE (Dunya News) – At least three people were wounded when a cylinder exploded during refilling in Wahday Colony area of Lahore on Tuesday. Panic spread in the area after the explosion. A large contingent of police reached the spot and cordoned off the area. The injured were identified as Umair ...
LAHORE: Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PSM) Leader Manzoor Pashteen on Tuesday lamented the continued extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and racial profiling of the Pashtuns ... “It is an absurd fight between the Taliban and the Pakistan Army, which only targets civilians,” Pashteen stated.
Let's get the elephant in the room out of the way: the Lahore Qalandar's neon green uniform is hideous. It seems like nobody wants to talk about it at all. And while say the Karachi Kings are not exactly fashion icons in their electric blue and kindergarten red, they also don't actively look . But it seems that ...
Situated on the plains of Punjab, Pakistan's largest province by population, Lahore is a cultural and industrial hub surrounded by fertile cropland. Every winter, black plumes of smoke billow across the plains as millions of farmers incinerate their fields to clear the way for planting. Lahore's industrial belt ...
LAHORE: The second edition of the English literary anthology, The Aleph Review, was launched on Sunday in a large yet intimate gathering on Tufail ... The inaugural edition, which had been dedicated to the late great 'father of the Pakistani idiom' Taufiq Rafat, had also contained some works of art but it ...
Lahore, Pakistan - Sajid Masih lies in a hospital bed, struggling to breathe, as a watchful police guard keeps a close eye on him at the Mayo Hospital, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. Both of Masih's legs are in casts, and he is covered in bruises. His left eye is bloodshot, and the other appears to have ...
Although there are artists from Bangladesh, India, Iran, Sri Lanka, Europe and the US taking part in the art festival, Pakistani artists are the main focus. 19 Mar 2018 ... Artists, musicians and poets from the around the world have been flocking to Lahore for Pakistan's first-ever Biennale. The art festival not ...
Lahore, Pakistan: A shoe was hurled at Pakistan's ousted prime minister Nawaz Sharif by a religious extremist on Sunday during a function at an Islamic seminary in Lahore. The incident took place a day after another religious extremist blackened the face of Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khwaja Asif with ink ...
The painstaking work is part of efforts to preserve Lahore´s crumbling architectural history as officials juggle conserving its diverse heritage with building modern infrastructure in Pakistan´s chaotic second city. The metropolis, which once served as the capital of the Mughal empire that stretched across much ...
Pakistani Hindus paint color to each other's faces to celebrate the Holi Festival in Lahore, Pakistan, on March 1, 2018. Holi Festival, also known as Spring Festival of Colors, usually falls in the later part of February or March, and it is celebrated by Hindu residents around the world by throwing colored ...
But as security across Pakistan continues to improve, officials are hoping to revive Lahore's lost glory. ... Lahore was the first Pakistani city to unveil a metro bus service, and is now constructing an inaugural metro train that Mumtaz and fellow civil society groups say will diminish the architectural history.


 

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