A top Pakistan hockey official resigned on Wednesday after the team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup sparked protests from former players and fans angry over a spectacular decline in the nation

Seven minority Shia Muslims, including a prominent community leader, have been shot dead by four unidentified men in Pakistan’s Punjab province.

Hafiz Saeed, the mastermind of the 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai, Friday led Eid prayers at the famous Gaddafi stadium here, hours after Jamat-ud-Dawah chief tweeted that “time is near when those oppressed in Kashmir, Palestine and Burma will celebrate Eid in the air of freedom.”

Over a month after a Muslim landlord allegedly paraded three Christian women naked in Pakistan’s Punjab province, a court here has finally taken notice of the matter and directed a judge to investigate the incident.

Former Pakistan cricket captain Salman Butt has for the first time publicly admitted to and apologised for spot-fixing, two years after he was found guilty of the offence.

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif on Monday said he will invite Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to Pakistan for his oath-taking ceremony as the new Premier.

PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif today said he will invite Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Pakistan for his oath-taking ceremony as the new premier.

The body of Indian death row prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died early today following a brutal assault by other inmates of a jail here, was handed over to officials of the Indian high commission by Pakistani authorities.

Pakistan today said the body of Indian death row convict Sarabjit Singh, who died in a Lahore hospital after a brutal assault in jail, will be handed over to Indian authorities after “the early completion of all formalities”.

Indian national Sarabjit Singh, severely injured in a brutal assault last week, has slipped into a “non-reversible” coma and doctors in a hospital here are struggling to save his life, official sources said today.