Unidentified gunmen attack private TV station in Sri Lanka

May 4th, 2009 Sri Lanka names squad for T20 World CupCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — Sri Lanka named uncapped all-rounder Isuru Udana in a 15-man squad on Monday for next month's Twenty20 World Cup in England. The tournament will be the first tour since the team came under a terrorist attack in Pakistan while playing in a test series in March.

April 21st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Two people, including a legislative assembly deputy speaker, were shot dead in an attack late Monday in northern Pakistan, Geo TV reported. According to the report, some unidentified gunmen opened fire on the car of Syed Asad Zaidi, the deputy speaker of Northern Areas Legislative Assembly (NALA), in Kashrot area of Gilgit, killing him on the spot.

April 9th, 2009 BOGOTA - Eight people were killed and four wounded in clashes between two rival gangs in the northwestern Colombia, the police said Wednesday. Members of La 39 and La Galeras gangs, which work for drug traffickers, clashed between them in the city of Medellin following an attack on a salon in the La Pradera neighborhood that killed two youths and injured one, the police said.

March 24th, 2009 GUWAHATI - Unidentified gunmen Tuesday shot dead Anil Majumdar, editor of Aji, a mass circulation Assamese daily, in the heart of Assam's main city of Guwahati. A police spokesman said Majumdar, 40, was fired with automatic weapons from close range outside his residence around 10.30 p.m.

March 4th, 2009 COLOMBO - The Sri Lankan government said Tuesday the attack on the country's cricket team in Pakistan will not affect the relationship between the two countries. Speaking to reporters in Colombo on the attack, Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary Palitha Kohona said, 'This incident is unlikely to cause restraints between the two countries.' He also said Sri Lanka was confident that the Pakistani government would do their utmost to apprehend and bring to justice the perpetrators of this dastardly attack.

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.

March 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Five policemen were killed when gunmen attacked the bus of the Sri Lankan cricket team as it was on its way to the Gaddafi stadium here for the Test against Pakistan, media reports said. Four members of the Sri Lankan team were injured.

March 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Former Pakistan Test cricketer Ahsan Raza, who was the reserve umpire for the Pakistan-Sri Lanka series, was critically injured in the attacks on the Sri Lankan team here Tuesday morning, TV reports said. Raza, a former spinner, had played nine Tests and 49 One-day Internationals.

March 3rd, 2009 LAHORE - Sri Lanka cricketers were flown from the Gaddafi Stadium here to the airport on a Pakistan Air Force chopper, hours after being attacked by unidentified gunmen Tuesday morning. Pakistan Television (PTV) televised live the departure of the Sri Lanka cricketers from the stadium.

February 10th, 2009 KABUL - Suicide bombers and gunmen attacked the justice ministry and a police station in Afghanistan's capital Kabul Wednesday, reportedly killing several people, media reports said. The audacious attacks took place ahead of a visit by Richard Holbrooke, the new US special envoy to Pakistan and Afghanistan.

February 1st, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leader Sher Azam was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the country's North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Sunday, the police said. The leader was attacked when he was returning home after shopping with family members in Haripur City, 65 km north of Islamabad, the police said.

January 7th, 2009 COLOMBO - Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead the chief editor of a leading Sri Lankan weekly on the outskirts of Colombo as he drove his car during rush hour traffic, medical sources here said. Lasantha Wickramatunga of Sunday Leader was hit in the head in Dehiwela locality, wounding him seriously.

January 7th, 2009 COLOMBO/NEW DELHI - Gunmen on a motorcycle Thursday shot dead an outspoken editor in Sri Lanka as he drove his car in rush hour traffic. President Mahinda Rajapaksa condemned the slaying even as an international body of journalists said the government was 'directly to blame'.

January 5th, 2009 COLOMBO - A private radio and television station on the outskirts of Sri Lanka's capital has been attacked by an armed gang, causing extensive damage to the studio complex and interrupting its broadcasts, a spokesman for the station said Tuesday. A gang of 15 to 20 men stormed the Maharaja TV and Maharaja Broadcasting Corporation at Pannipitiya, 20 km southeast of the Colombo, holding the staff at gunpoint and assaulting some of them before causing the damage early Tuesday, the spokesman said.

December 25th, 2008 ISLAMABAD - Unidentified gunmen shot dead a government official and three other people Friday in northern Pakistan, the police said. Abdul Wahid, director of agriculture department, was killed when his car came under attack near Gilgit, capital city of the Northern Areas, News Network International (NNI) news agency quoted police as saying.