Pakistan drones 'kill militants Posted by naila , Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 10:06 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

A US drone attack has killed seven alleged militants, including some thought to be of Arab origin, in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The strike was the first since the arrest of Raymond Davis, a US embassy employee who shot two Pakistanis in late January. There had been speculation that Washington had suspended the use of drones as it wrestled with Pakistan over whether the American has diplomatic immunity and should be freed.

According to the Pakistani intelligence officials, three missiles hit a house overnight in the village of Kaza Panga in the South Waziristan tribal region. Arabs and Turkmen were believed to be among the dead, they said.

Pakistan's tribal regions are key hideouts for Taliban and al-Qaida fighters, including many from other countries. While Pakistan's military has waged offensives in various parts of the north-west, the US has also used drone-fired missiles to target insurgents there.

The frequency of the missile strikes – often more than one a week – dropped to zero after Davis was detained for shooting two Pakistanis in the eastern city of Lahore on 27 January. The US has demanded his release, arguing Davis was acting in self-defence against robbers and has diplomatic immunity from prosecution because he works for the US embassy.

Zardari's Japan visit brings tangible benefits for Pakistan Posted by naila , at 10:04 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

TOKYO: Japanese Emperor Akihito has praised Pakistan’s role in the war on terror and acknowledged the sacrifices rendered by its security forces and people.
Talking to President Asif Ali Zardari here on Wednesday, he said Japan accorded great importance to its ties with Pakistan.
The emperor came out of his palace to receive President Zardari.
The president lauded Japan’s role in Pakistan’s development and its investment in various sectors and said his visit would boost bilateral ties.
This was President Zardari’s second meeting with the emperor. They had met in April 2009, when the president visited Japan to lead Pakistan’s delegation at a meeting of the Friends of Democratic Pakistan.
Emperor Akihito said he fondly remembered his visit to Pakistan in early 1960s as crown prince.
The president felicitated Crown Prince Naruhito on his birthday and invited him to visit Pakistan.
MOTORBIKE PLANT: Yamaha Motors, Pakistan, will spend $150 million on setting up a plant on 50 acres in Bin Qasim area near Karachi.
President Zardari was informed by Yamaha Motors chief Hiroyuki Yanagi at a meeting that the company would bring advanced technology to Pakistan and about 45,000 people would get jobs in the project.
The president said Pakistan welcomed Japanese investment in various sectors and would provide adequate facilities and security to foreign investors.
Talking to the chief of the Mitsubishi Corporation, Mr Kenkasa Yashi, President Zardari said investments in Pakistan had been given comprehensive legal protection with an attractive package of tax incentives.
He said Pakistan was facing shortage of energy and the sector provided an opportunity for foreign investment.
Pakistan has coal deposits of 180 billion tons in the southeastern area and the southern coast provides tremendous potential of wind energy.
Other key sectors offering profitable ventures are agriculture, infrastructure development and mining.—APP

Shahbaz meets Gilani to discuss reforms agenda Posted by naila , at 10:02 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

Former premier Nawaz Sharif's PML-N party has decided in principle to part ways with the Pakistan People's Party in the politically crucial province of Punjab, where the two parties have been uneasy partners in a coalition government for nearly three years.

The PML-N, which is the main opposition party at the centre, is expected to announce its decision to part with the PPP in Punjab and to expel PPP ministers from the provincial government on February 25, when a deadline set by Sharif to implement a 10-point reforms agenda will expire.

The PML-N is expected to form a new alliance in Punjab, the country's most populous province, with the group of 47 dissident PML-Q lawmakers that was recently given legitimate status by the Speaker of the provincial assembly by allocating them separate seats in the House.

The PML-N has reportedly assured the dissidents that they will be given four ministries.

Pervez Musharraf to be brought to Pakistan: Babar Awan Posted by naila , Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 1:17 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

RAWALPINDI: The Federal Investigation Agency submitted on Monday a fresh 57-page report in the Anti-Terrorism Court-III, declaring former president Pervez Musharraf as an accused in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case.
FIA’s Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali said in the court that investigators, while reinvestigating the case, had tried time and again to contact the former president for questioning him but he did not respond.
He said that the FIA had mentioned him as an absconder in the fifth interim investigation report.
When Special Judge ATC-III Rana Nisar Ahmed asked the prosecutor whether the investigators had declared him a proclaimed offender, Chaudhry Zulfiqar said the former president had been mentioned as an accused and as an absconder, adding that the court could be requested to declare him as a proclaimed of-fender if Musharraf did not submit himself before the law.
The investigators have cited the name of Musharraf in column-II of the fresh investigation report under section 173 of criminal procedure code. They have put the former army chief at the disposal of the trial court, saying they had found no direct evidence against the former president so far. They said the former president could not be completely cleared at this stage.
Official sources close to the investigations said a Joint Investigation Team of FIA had tagged statements of former intelligence bureau chief Ijaz Shah and former director general of the crisis management cell of the Ministry of Interior Brig (retd) Javaid Iqbal Cheema with the report.
Sources said that the former IB chief had stated that Musharraf was annoyed with Ms Benazir Bhutto because she was inclined towards a political reconciliation.
Brig (retd) Cheema informed the investigators that former president had directed him to arrange a press conference only three hours after the assassination of Ms Bhutto.
They said the investigators had also attached an email sent by Musharraf to Ms Bhutto saying that her security depended on the nature of her relations with him.
The email is being considered as a threat hurled by Musharraf.
The investigators have also submitted a letter written by Ms Benazir to Mark Siegel, a foreign journalist, saying she felt threatened from Mr Musharraf, former Punjab chief minister Pervaiz Ellahi and Ijaz Shah.
The joint investigation team has added three new charges in its fresh interim report.
It has included section 21-I (abetment in terrorism) of Anti-Terrorism Act, 1997, section 119 (public servant concealing design to commit offence which is his duty to prevent) of Pakistan Penal Code and section 120.B (criminal conspiracy).
Interestingly, another Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Azhar has avoided speaking about the investigation report submitted in the trial court and even said that no fresh report had been submitted.
Separately, the trial court dismissed bail applications of two arrested police officers Saud Aziz, former Rawalpindi CPO, and Khurram Shahzad, the then SP of Rawal Town division.
The police officers arrested in December last year had denied allegations of hosing down the crime scene and stopping the post-mortem of Ms Bhutto, saying her personal security was responsible for the breach of security.
They said that investiga-tors should give details of the circumstances which forced the former prime minister to emerge out of the sunroof of her bullet-proof vehicle after addressing the public meeting in Liaquat Bagh.

American Official Involved in Pakistan Shooting Identified Posted by naila , Friday, January 28, 2011 at 2:47 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

Though the U.S. State Department and Pakistani officials are at odds over the identity of a U.S. consular employee accused of killing two Pakistani men, private security officer Raymond Davis was involved in the incident, sources told ABC News today.Davis, a "technical adviser" to the U.S. government whose record shows experience in the U.S. Special Forces, is accused of shooting two men who were apparently attempting to rob him Thursday in Lahore. A third Pakistani man was killed when a vehicle struck him while reportedly racing to the American's aid.

Pakistani officials named Davis as the accused American to ABC News, in reports and in court documents Thursday, but State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said the name had been misreported.

A source close to Davis told ABC News today he was involved in the incident.

Court documents filed in Lahore list Davis as charged with murder. A trial will determine whether the killing was intentional, accidental or in self-defense.

After denying the man's name is Raymond Davis, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley would not say who accused government employee is, in what capacity he worked for the embassy or why he was apparently carrying a firearm.

"I can confirm that an employee at the U.S. consulate in Lahore was involved in an incident today," Crowley said Thursday. "It is under investigation. We have not released the identity of our employee at this point."

Davis runs Hyperion Protective Consultants, LLC, a company that provides "loss and risk management professionals."

Since it is not known in what capacity Davis was working for the government, it is not clear whether he is entitled to diplomatic immunity.

The State Department did not immediately respond to requests for comment on this report.

Nabeel Gabol quits Cabinet Posted by naila , Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at 2:19 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

In an apparent failure to takeover the control of the ministry of ports & shipping in wake of the resignation tendered by MQM Minister Babar Khan Ghauri, the PPP's Karachi-based leader and minister of state for ports and shipping Nabeel Gabol on Wednesday tendered his resignation to the Prime Minister.

Since Ghauri had tendered resignation as per the policy of his party some three weeks back, Gabol wanted to takeover the affairs of the ministry of ports and shipping being the minister of state, a source confided to APP.

"But Gabol was stunned to note that there was no change in the ministry's affairs. So he was denied his right to exercise the powers of the minister. In protest to the resistance, Gabol decided to step down as he did not want to remain a ceremonial minister," added the source.

In his two-line letter sent to the prime minister, Gabol said he was stepping down as minister of state "due to personal reasons". "He also thanked the prime minister for extending him support and said it was a wonderful experience of working under the prime minister," another source informed APP.

However, Gabol told the media that he was unable to resolve the issues of the people of his constituency. Gabol, clarified that he had no political differences with his party - the Pakistan Peoples Party.

He went on to say that he would not keep the ministerial slot even if the prime minister does not accept his resignation

Taseer's assassin guarded Zardari too: Report Posted by naila , Thursday, January 13, 2011 at 11:37 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

Islamabad:  The police guard who gunned down Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was assigned to protect key personalities, including Pakistan's President, Prime Minister and foreign delegations and has heightened security fears among the country's elite.

Self-confessed killer, Mumtaz Qadri, was detailed on protection duties on as many as 509 occasions in the past three years, including for US delegations who are prime targets, according to a media report today.

The reports attributed to police investigations have also cast suspicions that other elite bodyguards may have been radicalised.

The media reports said this could be alarming as the police force is part of the frontline in the war against terror groups, specially Taliban and al-Qaeda. The report highlights the dangers of radicals infiltrating into the security agencies of unstable and nuclear-armed Pakistan.

• has long worried about the loyalty of Pakistan's security forces, especially the powerful army, given the publicly known links with terror groups fighting in Afghanistan and Kashmir.

Qadri, who surrendered after gunning down Taseer in a market in Islamabad on January 4, has told police he was angered by the Governor's criticism of the blasphemy law.

Investigators are trying to determine whether Qadri had acted alone or was part of a conspiracy.

Qadri was assigned to protect VIPs and VVIPs on 509 occasions despite being declared a "security risk" in 2004 due to his extremist leanings, The News daily quoted a report compiled by intelligence agencies as saying.

The policeman was also part of a team that was used by Military Intelligence and Inter-Services Intelligence to conduct raids against terrorist groups in 2008.

Among the prominent personalities he was assigned to protect were President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani and Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. He was also part of the security detail for a foreign delegation on two occasions last year.

Qadri had also been part of the security detail for several politicians, including Interior Minister Rehman Malik, PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Leader of Opposition in parliameNT.

Gilani forms 5-member committee to work with PML-N Posted by naila , at 11:33 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on Thursday formed a five-member committee to liaison with political leaders and to bring them together for proposing solutions to national issues.

The committee comprises of Law Minister Babar Awan, Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Sheikh, Water and Power Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Syed Naveed Qamar and Senator Raza Rabbani.

The committee is expected to work with a similar committee formed by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) for resolving national issues.

Prime Minister Gilani called PML-N’s senior leader Ishaq Dar to give assurance that the government’s five-member committee would soon meet the PML-N body and begin functioning.

The PML-N committee comprises of Senator Ishaq Dar, Sardar Mehtab, Pervez Rashid and Abdul Qadir Baloch.

The formation of the committee comes after Gilani accepted the PML-N’s ten point national agenda earlier this month. The PML-N had demanded that the federal government implement a ten-point charter by February. The government now has 42 days to implement the charter.

6 suspects arrested during search operation in Karachi Posted by naila , at 10:26 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

KARACHI: Police and Rangers have arrested six suspects and recovered arms from their custody during a search operation conducted in Pehlwan Goth, Gulistan-e-Jauhar on Thursday.

Police and Rangers conducted search operation against terrorists and criminal elements this afternoon in the area.



Police sources told media that three persons were killed in last two days in the area in clash between two groups. The forces conducted the operation after those killings. 

Assassin says killed Salman Taseer over blasphemy law statement Posted by naila , Thursday, January 6, 2011 at 2:35 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Governor Salman Taseer was allegedly assassinated by a gunman of Punjab Elite Force Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, Interior Minister Rehman Malik told reporters here on Tuesday.

The minister said the alleged killer had made confession statement of killing the Governor over late Taseer's statement billing the Blasphemy Law as a "black law.

The killer after attacking the governor with his weapon has surrendered to the security forces moments after shooting the governor dead.

Qadri was immediately arrested and police were interrogating him", he added.

Late Salman Taseer, he said, have had lunch along with one of his friends at a cafe in Kohsar Market of Islamabad. When he came out to ride his waiting car, he was shot dead.

Earlier, the Governor had visited the President House and met Minister for Information and Broadcasting Qamar Zaman Kaira at the Parliament House.

Shahzain Bugti sent to jail Posted by naila , Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 1:07 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

QUETTA: The Judicial Magistrate one Quetta, Mohib Ullah Tareen’s court has sent JWP’s provincial president Shah Zain bugti and his 26 colleagues to jail on Monday.

The police remand of Bugti and his guards was ended on Saturday.

Strict security arrangements were in place on the arrival of Bugti and his colleagues at the District Court.

Outside the court room Bugti was optimistic while talking to the press about going to Dera Bugti on January 28 and lead the long march, however declared his brother as his replacement in case of his absence.

Paramilitary troops had arrested Shahzain Bugti and the 26 security guards on Dec 22 after allegedly finding a huge quantity of illegal arms and ammunition in vehicles of his convoy coming from the border town of Chaman.

Pakistan, donors in row over utilisation of loans Posted by naila , Wednesday, October 13, 2010 at 2:49 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

  International lenders estimate this summer's floods in Pakistan caused damage totalling $9.6 billion Cdn to the country's infrastructure, agriculture and other sectors, a government official in Islamabad said Wednesday.

The estimate, drafted by the Asian Development Bank and the World Bank in consultation with Pakistani leaders, underscores the financial challenges facing Pakistan, a U.S.-allied nation that is battling an Islamist insurgency and was relying on international loans before the deluge.

Although other countries, including the U.S., have contributed millions to the flood relief effort, they have warned Pakistan they cannot foot the entire recovery and reconstruction bill, which some have estimated could surpass $40.44 billion Cdn.

U.S. officials, in particular, have urged Pakistan to improve its anemic tax collection to aid its long-term rebuilding.

The figure of $9.6 billion refers only to existing values of roads, buildings, irrigation systems and other devastated sectors that were evaluated nationwide, not to what it will cost to replace them, said the government official familiar with the report.

Replacement costs will depend on which projects the government chooses to pursue and whether it wants to rebuild certain structures in the same fashion or better, he said. The official requested anonymity because the draft findings have yet to be officially released.

The floods began in late July during unusually heavy monsoon rains, eventually covering one-fifth of the country and affecting some 20 million of Pakistan's 175 million people. Nearly 2,000 people died, and millions were left homeless, according to the United Nations.

Dozens of bridges were washed away, while more than 1.9 million homes were damaged or destroyed. Damage extended to about 2.4 million hectares of farmland, a severe blow to agriculture, the most important pillar of Pakistan's economy.

Even as most people displaced in the northwest have returned to their homes — or what's left of them — parts of southern Sindh province are still under water.

Aid groups have struggled all along to raise money to help Pakistan. With the disaster unfolding relatively slowly, and the number killed low compared with other major disasters such as the Haiti earthquake, experts said many countries and donors did not immediately realize the magnitude of the disaster. There also are concerns that corruption and inefficiency in Pakistan's government may lead to squandered aid.

The UN has appealed for a little more than $2 billion US to help Pakistan's emergency relief and early recovery but has received only about a third of that.

PM Gilani also starts seeing political actors, jokers Posted by naila , at 2:47 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said Tuesday that renewed Afghan efforts to make peace with the Taliban and end the nine-year war would fail without Pakistan’s help.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said this week he had renewed overtures to the insurgents, confirming in a US television interview that his government had been holding talks with the Taliban “for quite some time”.
But Gilani told reporters after a ceremony held to disburse Watan Cards to the flood affectees in Charsadda that Pakistan had an essential role to play if there was to be any prospect of peace.
“Nothing will happen without us, because we are a part of the solution, we are not a part of the problem,” Gilani said. Gilani refused to be drawn on whether Pakistan backed the plan.
Asked whether Pakistan had been consulted on contacts between Karzai’s government and the Taliban, Gilani said: “When Mr Karzai will share his roadmap with America, and Americans, and he share this with us, then we can comment.”
Prime Minister made it clear that he would not be appearing before the Supreme Court, adding that the appointment of NAB chief was an administrative and not a constitutional issue. He elaborated that the appointment of NAB chairman was made as transfers and appointments were made of chief ministers in the provinces.
Ruling out both mid-term and local bodies elections, Gilani said he had also been hearing for the last two years that the government was wrapping up but no such thing happened. 
“We are running the government under immense pressure. Had it been anyone else, they would not have been able to run the country more than six months,” Gilani said. 

Face-off between India, Pak delegates at UNGA Posted by naila , Thursday, September 30, 2010 at 1:33 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

NEW YORK: In an unusual face-off, Indian and Pakistani diplomats engaged in heated exchanges in the UN General Assembly ( UNGA) over Jammu and Kashmir...link

NRO beneficiaries resign voluntarily; no threat to govt: Gilani Posted by naila , Sunday, September 26, 2010 at 10:01 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

Pakistani Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has cancelled visits starting this month to Europe, the foreign ministry said, a move which could intensify media speculation that pressure is mounting for a change in government.

The government's perceived poor handling of summer floods has raised questions over political stability in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country fighting homegrown Taliban insurgents which the U.S. regards as vital to efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.

"In view of his pre-occupations with the post-flood situation, the Prime Minister has decided not to go ahead with his scheduled visits to Paris and Brussels," said a Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesman in a statement.

"(The) Prime Minister's official visit to France is being re-scheduled."

Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi will lead Pakistan's delegation to the Asia-Europe summit in Brussels next month, said the statement.

Pakistani leaders have said the government has done its best to help flood victims given its limited resources and have appealed for international aid to help with reconstruction.

The military has taken the lead in relief and rescue efforts, reinforcing the view that it's Pakistan's most decisive and efficient institution in times of crises.

Those dynamics have raised questions in the Pakistani media and elsewhere about the fate of the civilian government.

"No one knows if Gilani decided at the spur of the moment to cancel his visit, or he was advised not to travel abroad in the face of the urgency the government is facing because of the floods and the pressure for a change in government," said an article in Pakistan's The News on Saturday.

The newspaper has been outspoken against several Pakistani governments over the years.

Gilani's press secretary, Shabbir Anwar, said he had been scheduled to leave at the end of this month for Paris with a delegation of 40 other officials to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy and then travel from there on Oct 1 to Brussels.

Instead Gilani decided to stay behind and the size of the delegation was reduced to save on expenses after the floods.

"This had nothing to do with politics," Anwar told Reuters.

The military, which has ruled Pakistan for more than half of its history, has held huge sway over security and foreign policy, even while civilian governments have been in power.

"Recent rumours of a pending military coup are fueled by politicised private media groups, which hope to undermine the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) led government of President Asif Ali Zardari," said Eurasia consultancy group.

Even though Pakistan has a history of military coups, analysts say one is unlikely now because the army would inherit the flood disaster, and a takoever could make Western donors hesitant to provide aid for reconstruction after floods.

It may, however, try to manipulate Pakistani politics from behind the scenes, Eurasia said.

PPP spokeswoman Fauzia Wahab said it had asked Gilani to meet other political parties to "counter these rumours" about a possible change in government.

"It's a war of nerves. Whenever our party is in power some factions (parties) gang up together and keep on conspiring against us," she said, adding that the military was not involved in the "campaign" because it could not afford to shift its focus away from the fight against Taliban insurgents.

Pakistani minister resigns after criticizing army Posted by naila , at 9:45 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

 Pakistan's federal minister for defense production resigned after being summoned by the prime minister to explain comments he made criticizing the army and accusing it of killing prominent politicians, officials said Sunday...LINK

US envoy warns Pakistan of flood funding shortfall Posted by naila , Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 6:55 AM, in Labels: Pakistan

KARACHI, Pakistan — The world will only be able to fund around 25 percent of the tens of billions of dollars needed to rebuild Pakistan after the floods, and its government will have to make up the shortfall, the U.S. envoy to the country warned Thursday.

Richard Holbrooke said America would not condition its assistance to the country, but warned that the U.S. Congress might not be generous if it felt that Pakistan was not taxing its own citizens enough.

Pakistan's rich have traditionally not paid much tax on their income or their property — either because they evade them or are exempt — and the country's collection rates are among the lowest in the world. Critics have pointed to this shortage of revenue in recent weeks as Islamabad leaders has sought international aid. The country's economy is surviving on international assistance, and the floods are expected to badly slow economic growth further.

"I don't want to withhold money they need, but I think we have to be clear that the Congress is going to be reluctant to give money if the money is filling in a gap because people are not paying taxes," Holbrooke told business leaders in Karachi.

Monsoon rains triggered massive floods six weeks ago that spread across the country and are still continuing in parts of the south. Some 8 million people have been made homeless in what Pakistani and U.N. officials have said is one of the largest humanitarian disasters in living memory.

The United Nations said last week that it had received $310 million toward its initial emergency appeal, although private and bilateral donations bring the global total committed for Pakistan flood aid to roughly US$1.1 billion. On Friday, donor nations are meeting in New York to appeal for more.

America has given more than $260 million for flood relief and has provided 18 military helicopters to evacuate people and deliver food and supplies.

"Nobody has an accurate estimate of the reconstruction costs because we still don't know what the damage has been, but it's going to be in the tens of billions of dollars," Holbrooke said.

"The international community will never be able to put together that level of support because of all the other needs of the world in these areas, so your government is going to have do something about revenue because there is a clear shortfall," he said.

The scale of the floods has raised fears for Pakistan's stability, a major concern for Western powers as they seek to stabilize neighboring Afghanistan and neutralize the threat from al-Qaida and other Islamist militants hiding in Pakistan's northwest.

There has so far been few signs of sustained social unrest or political upheaval as a result of the disaster.

Local volunteers, Islamic groups, the Pakistan army and the U.N. have helped millions of victims, but conditions are grim for most survivors, most of whom were very poor even before the disaster.

Govt to uphold rule of law, supremacy of Parliament: Gilani Posted by naila , Tuesday, February 23, 2010 at 12:14 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Feb 23 (APP): Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has said that the government attaches high priority to upholding the rule of law and supremacy of the Parliament...link

Pakistan calls for broad agenda for talks Posted by naila , at 12:12 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

Pakistan Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi warned on Tuesday that Thursday's Foreign Secretary-level talks with India would not achieve progress if its scope was limited to “a narrow agenda” of terrorism-related issues...link

Victims of Chehlum blasts laid to rest Posted by naila , Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 1:34 PM, in Labels: Pakistan

Funeral prayers for 14 victims were held in Saudabad area where hundreds of mourners turned up to attend the funerals and express their condolences to the bereaved families on Saturday...link