Pakistan police say gunmen attack police academy on outskirts of eastern city of Lahore

October 14th, 2009 Pakistan police: 2 die in gunfight in Lahore siegeLAHORE, Pakistan — Pakistani police say two people have been killed in a gunfight at a federal building in the eastern city of Lahore. Senior police official Chaudhry Shafiq says one of the dead wore a suicide jacket laden with explosives.

October 14th, 2009 LAHORE - Unidentified gunmen fired shots at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building in this Pakistani city Thursday. Police said that four unidentified gunmen fired shots at the FIA building situated on Temple Road in Lahore Thursday, Geo TV reported.

October 14th, 2009 Official: Gunmen inside Pakistan federal buildingISLAMABAD — An official says gunmen are firing inside a federal building in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore. Chaudhry Mansoor of the Federal Investigation Agency says he can hear the shots in the facility Thursday morning.

October 14th, 2009 Gunmen attack federal building in PakistanLAHORE, Pakistan — Gunmen entered a federal law enforcement building in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore on Thursday, firing shots and terrifying employees in the latest in a string of attacks to rock this U.S.-allied nuclear-armed country as it prepares to launch a major offensive in a Taliban and al-Qaida stronghold. In the Taliban-riddled northwest, meanwhile, a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle next to a police station, killing at least eight people, while a suspected U.S.

July 20th, 2009 Pakistan: 4 police officers killed in ambushPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police say gunmen ambushed a police patrol in Pakistan's volatile northwest, killing four officers. Senior police official Nisar Khan says two victims died at the spot on the outskirts of Peshawar city early Monday, while two others died at hospital from multiple bullet wounds.

June 17th, 2009 Suspect in Sri Lanka cricket attack arrestedISLAMABAD — Pakistani police say they have made their first arrest in the attack on Sri Lanka's cricket team in the eastern city of Lahore in March. Lahore police Chief Pervez Rathore said Wednesday the suspect was a member of a banned militant organization, but refused to name the group.

May 31st, 2009 LAHORE - The deteriorating law and order situation and the expanding writ of extremists in Pakistan, and especially in Punjab can be gauged from the fact that at least 486 people including army, navy and police officials, have lost their lives in suicide attacks in the province since 2007. Besides that about 1,573 people have been injured in terror strikes since 2007 to till date, The News reports.

May 27th, 2009 NEW YORK - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned Wednesday the bomb attack that killed at least 40 people in the Pakistani city of Lahore. "No cause can justify such indiscriminate terrorist violence," Ban said in a statement.

April 23rd, 2009 Police: Gunmen kill officer in NW PakistanPESHAWAR, Pakistan — Police say gunmen fired on a vehicle escorting paramilitary troops through a Pakistani district recently infiltrated by the Taliban. The troops were among those deployed Wednesday to protect government buildings and bridges in Buner, a district near the capital of Islamabad.

April 18th, 2009 Suicide bomber kills 10 at Pakistani checkpointPESHAWAR, Pakistan — A suicide car bomber attacked security forces manning a checkpoint in Pakistan's troubled northwest on Saturday, killing at least 10 people, officials said. The checkpoint is near the Orakzai tribal region, which has emerged in recent months as a major base for Taliban militants waging war on the Pakistan government.

April 2nd, 2009 LAHORE - Indian passenger buses have been barred from entering the city in the wake of the terror attack on a police academy on its outskirts just 12 km from the Wagah border. When the New Delhi-Lahore bus arrived at Wagah Monday, Pakistani security forces were still attempting to recapture the Manawan academy from a group of terrorists who had taken hundreds of trainees hostage.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Tactical units of the Pakistani security forces have cleared portions of a police academy where several assailants were holed up after killing at least 22 recruits and wounding dozens more in an early morning attack, news reports said Monday. The armed group holed up in the training school on the outskirts of the eastern city of Lahore were believed to have taken up to 150 policemen hostage.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - The terror siege of the police training academy on the outskirts of this Pakistani city ended Monday afternoon. Pakistani commandos fired in the air in celebration, media reports said.

March 5th, 2009 LAHORE - 'There are certain security lapses which are very vivid and very clear,' said a top official in Lahore where an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team left six policemen dead and six players injured, a media report said Thursday. The Commissioner of Lahore, Khusro Pervez, admitted to 'a huge security failure' which led to the attack on the Sri Lankan team in the city's heart Tuesday, Dawn reported.

March 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Five policemen were killed and six Sri Lankan cricket team members were injured Tuesday morning when gunmen opened fire at the bus carrying the cricketers here, the police said. 'Six of our players were wounded during the shooting incident targeting the Test team travelling to the match venue at Lahore.