Several injured in twin Lahore blasts

LAHORE: Twin blasts in Lahore have injured several people, some of them seriously, at Moon market in Iqbal Town Lahore, Geo News reported Monday.

Nothing is known so far about the nature of the blasts.

According to Geo News sources, the two blasts occurred within 30 seconds of each other. Fire erupted in the shops after the blasts.

According to Geo News sources, the two blasts occurred within 30 seconds of each other. Fire erupted in the market immediately after the blasts, engulfing a number of shops.

Moon market is a commercial center of Iqbal Town, Lahore, where shoppers are normally present in large numbers. A suicide attack had also been launched at a police station in this area on 13 August last year in which 8 people lost their lives.

Evidence of Indian involvement at dialogue table: Malik

KARACHI: Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Monday that evidence of Indian involvement in Pakistan has been handed over to the foreign ministry in Islamabad.

Speaking to the media after meeting with clerics at the CM House here, Malik said the evidence of Indian involvement in Pakistan will be shared with New Delhi during composite dialogue between the two countries.

The minister said arms and ammunitions smuggled into the country from Afghanistan were being used in terrorist activities in Pakistan. He said he was in talks with US and Afghan authorities in this connection and a mechanism is being put in place to stop the arms smuggling.

He stressed the need of ending cross border infiltration between Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Malik said the army defends the country’s borders while the Ulema are the guardians of country’s ideology.

“On the instruction of President and Prime Minister, I have come to Karachi to seek guidance of Ulema against the militancy,” Rehman said.

To a question, he said that David Headley was born in Pakistan but was raised and studied in the United States. He should be tried according to the American law, said Rehman, adding if there was any evidence suggesting his links in Pakistan then it should be shared with us.

SOURCE: http://geo.tv

Osama escaped Pakistan: British newspaper

LONDON: A British newspaper citied Taliban warlords has claimed that Osama Bin Laden has fled Pakistan into Afghanistan.

The al-Qaeda chief escaped as Pakistan stepped up its military campaign on its lawless border area.

Qari Hussain - wanted for training suicide bombers - said he had met Bin Laden in Quetta near the Afghan border.

He said: "He recently left for Afghanistan. The military operation left him with no choice."

The claim was supported by Taliban warlord Shamim Mehsud, holed up in Pakistan.

The news came as US Defence Secretary Robert Gates confessed they had received no decent intelligence on Bin Laden's location for "years".

He added: "If we did, we'd go and get him."

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