Siege ends in Lahore: media

October 13th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The toll in Pakistan's Swat region bombing has gone up to 45, a media report said Tuesday, as security agencies arrested 28 people for the attack on the army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. The Shangla suicide attack toll went up to 45 when two more people succumbed to their injuries in district headquarter hospital, Geo TV reported Tuesday.

August 7th, 2009 LAHORE - Lahore Commissioner Khusro Pervez has blamed India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) for the Punjab unrest. The Daily Times quoted Pervez, as saying that the recent anti-Christian riots in Gojra, Sheikhupura and the attack on the Rescue 15 building in Lahore were orchestrated by the RAW.

May 27th, 2009 LAHORE - A blast shook Pakistan's Lahore city Wednesday morning, a media report said. The explosion was on Mall Road near Lahore High Court, Geo TV reported.

May 27th, 2009 NEW DELHI - India Wednesday condemned the blast in Lahore that killed over 20 people and hoped Pakistan can join hands in fighting the spectre of terror. "I feel sorry that an incident has taken place in Lahore...

April 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A blast occurred near a police training academy in Pakistan's Lahore city Friday followed by an exchange of fire, media reported. Gunshots were being heard from a distance of half a kilometre from the police training academy, Geo TV channel quoted an eye-witness as saying.

March 31st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack on a police training academy in Lahore Monday, a media report said Tuesday. Baitullah Mehsud, leader of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, confirmed that his group carried out the attack but did not give details, said Geo News TV channel.

March 30th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistani security forces Monday regained control of a police training centre near Lahore after an eight-hour battle with Islamist militants that left 27 security personnel dead in one of the most audacious terror attacks in the country. At least 90 others were injured, some grievously.

March 10th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has zeroed in on the alleged mastermind of last week's terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, a media report said Monday. 'The Lahore police have named the mastermind as Mohammad Aqeel.

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.

February 17th, 2009 LAHORE - Pakistan's Interior Minister Rehman Malik Wednesday said that Maulana Masood Azhar and Dawood Ibrahim, the two men wanted by India for terrorist activities, are not in Pakistan and no request has been received from India for their arrest, media reports said. Malik said this while speaking to the media after a meeting of the Federal Cabinet in Lahore, The News reported.

January 28th, 2009 LAHORE - Three people, allegedly trained by Indian intelligence agency, were arrested Thursday, media reports here said. Lahore police chief Pervaiz Rathore told a press conference here that the three Pakistani citizens were arrested Thursday in a village close to the Indian border in Lahore, Geo TV reported.

December 26th, 2008 NEW DELHI - The New Delhi-Lahore bus service has not been affected by the external affairs ministry's advisory asking Indians not to travel to the neighbouring country, an official said Saturday. 'The number of passengers going to Pakistan in the bus has not decreased.

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has deployed troops to protect 'vital points' along the Line of Control (LoC) in Jammu and Kashmir and the international border with India, a media report said Friday. 'Sources in the defence department declined to give details of any fresh movement but did not deny reports that Pakistan was moving certain brigades towards Lahore,' Daily Times said.

December 25th, 2008 NEW DELHI - India Friday issued an advisory against travel to Pakistan following the reported arrest of several Indians in the country and being charged with terrorism. 'There have been reports in the Pakistani media that several Indian nationals have been arrested over the last two days in Lahore and Multan, and are being accused of being terrorists,' an external affairs ministry spokesman said.

December 23rd, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Four people were injured Wednesday in two blasts in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, a media report said. According to a TV report, the explosions took place near an official vehicle parked in the Gor area of Lahore, the capital of Pakistan's eastern Punjab province.