ANP provincial leader Hanif Khan advocate shaheed

ANP provincial leader Hanif Khan advocate were gunned down when he stepped out of his house in Metroville Site area, to offer Fajr prayers. He was taken to Jinnah hospital in seriously condition where he succumbed to his injuries. The deceased Hanif Khan advocate was ANP’s general secretary of Metroville Site area in Karachi. Killing of the ANP activist sparked unrest in the city and Old Golimar area, where the angry mob of ANP supporters pelted stones at public properties and set tyres on fire. The protesters blocked the road with burning tyres in Site area and demanded of the government to arrest the culprits. Karachi Bar Association...

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Raymond Davis released

ISLAMABAD: An Additional Sessions judge Wednesday set free CIA contractor Raymond Davis, who killed two Pakistanis on a busy road in Lahore, after payment of blood money (Diyat) in accordance with Sharia law of Pakistan, sources said. Talking to Geo News, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah said the court released Raymond Davis after the family members of the murdered men appeared in the court and pardoned the US National after an agreement was reached between the two sides. “He has been released from jail and now it is up to him to leave the country whenever he wants,” the Minister added. The families of the murdered men, Fahim and...

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peshawar adezai blast

A suicide bomber attacked a funeral procession in Adezai on Wednesday killing at least 34 people and injuring 45 others.. The suicide bomber was targeting members of an anti-Taliban militia attending funeral prayers for the wife of a militiaman in Adezai village, near Peshawar that leads to the border tribal regions, DCO Peshawar, Siraj Ahmed, said. The attacker mingled with the mourners before setting off his explosives, Ahmed said. "People had gathered and had just started praying when a boy walked in and blew himself up," survivor Mohammad Eman told Geo News. Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the responsibility of attack. Bloodied shoes and caps littered the ground where the attack took place, on the outskirts of the city, as stunned survivors milled around or bundled the...

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Amin Khattak passes away

General Sec. of Awami National Party Sindh expires from cardiac arrest. He was taken to hospital soon after the attack but was unable to surviv...

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nowshera blast 4th march 2011

At least 10 people have been killed and several injured in a blast in a mosque inside shrine of Akhond Panjo Baba shrine soon after Friday prayers, Geo News reported quoting police source...

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federal minister Shahbaz Bhatti assassinated

Federal Minister for Minorities, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated in a firing incident in Islamabad, Geo News reported. Hospital spokesman Dr Azmat ullah Qureshi confirmed that the minister succumbed to the injuries. He was rushed to the hospital. Unknown assailants shot the minister when he was leaving from his house in Sector I-...

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