Lahore

Enveloped by a choking shroud of toxic smog, New Delhi has declared a public health emergency as Lahore is also covered

At least 72 people – more than 30 of them children – were killed over the weekend following a bombing at a public park in the Pakistani city of Lahore

Twin blasts rocked Lahore on Friday, hitting a high-security military district and killing at least 39 people.

The son of one of Pakistan’s most prominent anti-Taliban Muslim clerics fears that his father’s murder could spark more sectarian violence.

Pakistani police arrested a militant on Wednesday they suspect was involved in an attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team in Lahore in March.

The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility on Thursday for an attack on police and intelligence agency offices that killed about 30 people.

India will organise a major part of cricket’s World Cup in 2011 after Pakistan were stripped of co-hosting rights, the ICC said on Tuesday.

Violence rocked nuclear-armed Pakistan on Saturday, with a pilotless US drone aircraft killing 13 people including militants in the northwest.

The US offered Taliban fighters who renounce violence in Afghanistan an ”honourable form of reconciliation” on Tuesday.

Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud said on Tuesday his group had carried out an assault on a police academy in the city of Lahore.

Militants holed up in a police training centre in Lahore on Monday after storming the building, with estimates of the dead ranging up to 20.

The attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Pakistan have shown that athletes could be a target anywhere in the world

A probe into the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team has found signs that Pakistani militants with possible ties to al-Qaeda were responsible.

Pakistan’s interior ministry chief said on Friday he could not rule out foreign involvement in the Sri Lankan cricket attack.

Pakistan police on Wednesday arrested suspects in the attack on Sri Lanka’s cricket team, but said they had made no progress in tracking the gunmen.