KARACHI: Jamaat-e-Islami Ameer Syed Munawar Hasan Friday alleged that infamous US security firm Blackwater was behind all terror attacks in Pakistan under the supervision of Interior Minister Rehman Malik.

Addressing a news conference here on Friday, Hasan advised the ruling PPP to give the portfolio of interior ministry to someone else to save it’s standing.
The JI leader alleged that Karachi target killing and Lahore bombings were carried out by Blackwater. The Interior Minister was supervising all the activities of Blackwater across the country, he said.
Such incidents, he said, would …

Lahore: Pakistan has announced a 15-member squad but did not name a captain for next month’s World Twenty20 tournament in the West Indies.

Chief selector Mohsin Khan said on Friday that naming a captain “is the domain of the PCB chairman (Ijaz Butt)” who will name the skipper later.
Pakistan cricket plunged into a turmoil earlier in the week when the PCB banned and fined several leading cricketers, including former captains Younis Khan, Mohammad Yousuf, Shoaib Malik and Shahid Afridi.
All-rounder Mohammad Hafeez makes a comeback after his good showing in the National …

Islamabad: Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani Friday reiterated before the National Assembly that neither the PPP-led coalition government made any political victimization nor any political leader has ever been arrested.“There is no political victimization. There is not a single political leader put behind the bar,” he assured the National Assembly responding to a point of order raised by PML member Marvi Memon.

He said the matter relating the torturing of protesting employees of National Program for Improvement of Water Courses by police was a provincial subject; however he had already …

Karachi: Unidentified armed men martyred prominent leader of Khatm-e-Nabuwat Maulana Saeed Jalalpuri in Gulzar Hijri area.

SSP Gulshan Javed Mahar said that the assassination took place on Abul Hassan Isfahani Road in Gulzar Hijri locality of Karachi in the wee hours on Thursday.
Also, two people were taken under custody following the firing incident, he said.
The motive behind the killing was yet to be known.
Four deceased persons were identified as Mufti Saeed Ahmed Jalalpuri, Mufti Huzaifa Jalapuri, Mufti Qamar Zaman and Mufti Atiq ur Rheman.
The injured persons have been …

Karachi: The seven-day-long sit-in outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) by employees of the National Program for Improvement of Water Courses (NPIW) ended on Thursday after assurances by the federal government that the matter would be sorted out.

The protest, headed by PML-Q leader and MNA Marvi Memon, who was on the site herself for the last seven days, was to seek the regularization of services of the employees of the foreign-funded project, which is set to end in coming months.
It is unclear what assurances have been given, but, according …

Peshawar : Five persons including a child have been killed and 12 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up near Bara Qadeem check-post here on Thursday, police said.

The bomber detonated his explosive vest close to Bara Qadeem check-post, a border area of Peshawar and Khyber Agency. The check-post was jointly manned by Frontier Constabulary (FC) and police.
The children, who were playing in the area, also came under the attack. The injured were rushed to local hospitals and those with critical injuries were shifted to Lady Reading Hospital …