Pakistan on Friday arrested five would-be suicide bombers and scores of illegal Afghan immigrants during raids around the capital of the restive Baluchistan province, officials said.
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India on Friday welcomed Pakistan’s acknowledgement the Mumbai attacks were partly planned on its soil, in a sign of a possible thaw in relations between the two nuclear powers.
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ISLAMABAD: Zaki ur Rehman Lakhvi, an alleged mastermind of the Mumbai attacks, was given in the custody of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) team which conducted the Mumbai probe.According to sources of the investigation team, Lakhvi was in the custody of intelligence agencies until now but after the registration of an F.I.R, his custody was handed over to investigation team for further interrogation.Sources further told that parents of Ajmal Kasab, lone surviving gunman captured during the Mumbai attacks, had been shifted to Islamabad. The investigation team is involving activists of the banned outfits in the probe for arresting two others accused Abu Hamza and Abu-al-Kama. They will be arrested soon, sources told.Lakhvi is likely to be produced before an Anti Terrorism Court on Saturday, seeking his physical remand.
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KARACHI: Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) has included former chairman of the board Lt Gen (retired) Tauqir Zia in the committee, formed to investigate the controversy behind the 2006 Oval Test, after which the number of its members went four. Earlier, it was a three-member committee announced on Thursday and it was comprised of former captain and director national Cricket Academy Aamir Sohail, Wasim Bari and Sultan Rana but now the board increased the number of members to four by including Lt Gen (R) Tauqir Zia.The committee will review the role of Pakistan cricket officials, captain and other players in the Oval Test fiasco and also to determine who was responsible for the destruction of Pakistan cricket image and financial loss to the board.
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India must “come clean” about those on its own soil involved in the Mumbai terrorist attacks, Pakistan said Friday, a day after it said that the assailants set out from Pakistan.
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Suspected Taliban militants shot dead two women and dumped their burqa-clad bodies by a roadside in a northwest Pakistan town, officials said Friday.
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India’s government and opposition parties cautiously welcomed Pakistan’s investigation into the Mumbai attack on Friday, in a sign diplomatic tension between the two nuclear powers could wane.
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KARACHI: Pakistan cricket received a further blow Friday with the cancellation of a tri-series in Dubai scheduled for late March due to the unavailability of the Sri Lankan team, a top official said. Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) chief operating officer Salim Altaf told that the event would be scrapped. “We have been told by organisers that the tri-series has been cancelled because, I believe, the Sri Lankan team is unavailable,” said Altaf. The third team was to be Bangladesh. Altaf said he did not know why Sri Lanka could not participate. The event was part of a nine-million dollar deal with Dubai Sports City last year, which was to provide Pakistan with cricket at neutral venue after foreign teams refused to tour the country over security fears. Pakistan did not play a single Test last year after Australia postponed a tour in March citing security risks. They rescheduled the tour in two visits — for one-dayers in 2009 and Tests in 2010.But they refused again to tour Pakistan after Canberra refused permission over fear that players could be targeted because the Australian army is among international troops deployed in neighbouring Afghanistan. The series will be played in Abu Dhabi and Dubai from April 24 to May 7.The International Cricket Council (ICC) also withdrew the eight-nation Champions trophy from Pakistan after three teams refused to tour. The ICC will decide the new venue in April. Pakistan cricket suffered another setback when India refused to send its team across the border following heightened tension in the wake of the Mumbai attacks. Pakistan has admitted that part of the planning for the attacks, which killed 165 people, was done inside Pakistan.
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Pakistan cricket has appointed a committee to investigate the controversy behind the 2006 Oval Test, whose result was twice changed, a senior official said Friday.
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Economic woes complicating Pakistan’s struggle against Islamic militants are easing thanks to a tough rescue plan backed by the International Monetary Fund, but the program needs more than a year to succeed, the country’s finance chief said Friday.
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