The PCB has yet to submit to the ICC an incident report on the terror attacks on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore last year, after which there has been no international cricket in the country.

The attacks took place in March 2009 as the tourists were on their way to Gaddafi Stadium and eight people were killed.

Judges in Lahore refused to perform their judicial duties Tuesday as their tussle with the lawyers worsens, said sources.

District and Session judge Zawar Ahmed Sheikh’s court was closed the whole day.

Suppliants coming in from all over the country had to face a lot of difficulties.

Police say a group of militants taken into custody in connection with all major attacks in Lahore and other parts of the country belongs to the provincial metropolis.

They are involved in recruiting terrorists, planning, gathering information and storing explosives and sophisticated weapons at different places in the city and its outskirts and providing logistic support to other groups.

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) announced the opening of its second office in Lahore on June 29, 2010. It is in response to the increasing demand for international finance professionals throughout the region, Regional Director South Asia and Middle East for CIMA, Bradley Emerson said. He said, “With the kind of demographic distribution in Pakistan where 50 percent of the population is under the age of 20, we are convinced that Pakistan would be a source of talent for the future of economic development globally”.

On June 19, the LHC Chief Justice (CJ) Khawaja Muhammad Sharif had taken suo motu notice on the acquittal of terrorists accused of attacks on the Manawan Police Training School, Marriot Hotel, and two suicide attacks in Lahore in 2008 in which an army Surgeon General Lt-Gen Mushtaq Baig, a colonel and fourteen others were killed.

A division bench of the LHC headed by the CJ asked the Punjab Prosecutor General Sayed Zahid Bukhar and Islamabad SSP Tahir Aalam to provide necessary documents on the appeals filed so they could be presented before a bench of the LHC within two weeks time.

The Punjab government has allocated Rs 4 billion for the Lahore Ring Road Project in the annual budget 2010-11.

According to budget docements, Rs 2,875 million will be spent on the ongoing schemes of LRR project, while Rs 1,125 million would be spent for new schemes.

Police on Monday arrested 12 Afghan nationals from a house, who were brought to Pakistan from Afghanistan in injured condition to treatment.

These people beloved to be linked with Taliban network, were recently brought to Lahore from Afghanistan for medical treatment, official sources said.

Staff of the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore were busy offering thanksgiving prayers on Tuesday following the Monday night’s attack in which eight people died as terrorists entered the building looking for their detained accomplice.

Staff of the Jinnah Hospital in Lahore were busy offering thanksgiving prayers on Tuesday following the Monday night’s attack in which eight people died as terrorists entered the building looking for their detained accomplice.

Infosys Technologies Chairman N.R. Narayana Murthy said on Tuesday that Indian outsourcing firms may soon want to look next door to fill their hiring needs.

“There is an ever increasing demand for IT-BPO services, particularly as western societies produce fewer IT graduates,” said Mr. Murthy, More >