Weekly EHTASABI AMAL Lahore ھفت روذھ احتسابی عمل لاھور

Mourners in northwest Pakistan have buried scores of their relatives and friends killed in a suicide bomb attack. Grief-stricken relatives on Saturday wept as they lifted coffins and said prayers for at least 40 people who were killed when a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in the Swat valley region a day earlier. bodyVariable350="Htmlphcontrol1_lblError"; Up to 90 other people were injured when the bomber blew himself up at the funeral on Friday for one of three police officers killed earlier that day. An estimated 800 people were attending the funeral of Javed Iqbal in the town of Mingora when the bomber struck, security officials said. bodyVariable300="Htmlphcontrol2_lblError"; Ghazan, Iqbal's 16-year-old son, was among those killed in the blast. Fear and loathing Asif Khan, a resident of Mingora, said: "The entire town is mourning the deaths and it looks like the end of the world has arrived. "So many people have died at once and now everyone is s...

LAHORE, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court on Saturday acquitted the brother of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in a murder case after the families of the dead suddenly withdrew their accusations, lawyers said. The surprising turnaround came after the former premier's party ended up second in the Feb. 18 parliamentary elections. It is expected to form a ruling coalition with slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party. It is also expected to form the government in the eastern province of Punjab after winning provincial assembly elections. Shahbaz Sharif was the chief minister, or top elected official, of Punjab when five men were killed in what their families said were fake shootouts with the police in 1998. The families on Saturday told the court they did not want Shahbaz Sharif to be tried, said the plaintiffs' lawyer, Aftab Bajwa. He would not give a reason why and the relatives also refused to explain. Bajwa said Sharif was acquitted by court...