Pak suspects Taliban in Lahore police academy terror attack

PAKISTAN NEWS: Baitullah Mehsud, Pakistani Taliban leader was suspected of carrying out an attack on a police academy today in Lahore (Paistan) said Interior Ministry head Rehman Malik.

Rehman Malik also said in a news conference today that one of the suspects of the attack in the Lahore police academy was an Afghan.

This terror attack in Lahore was for the second time in a month. Heavily armed gunmen stormed a police academy in Lahore killing at least 27 policemen in an 8-hour siege. In this 4 terrorists had been shot dead and 6 captured alive by the security forces.

Paramilitary Major Farhat Ali told to the media, "We hope to finish the operation within 40 minutes to an hour," at the site after the commandos took control of the complex of the police academy.

Earlier the Interior Ministry chief Rehman Malik told to the media that 52 police were wounded in the attack but gave no word on the number killed.

Governor of Punjab province, Salman Taseer, told to the media that authorities had reports of 4 people confirmed killed.

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Joint strategy for reconciliation in Pakistan between Nawaz Sharif and PPP

PAKISTAN CRISIS NEWS: Nawaz Sharif said today that his opposition PML-N party and the ruling Pakistan
People's Party (PPP) will be evolving a joint strategy for political reconciliation in the wake of the decision of the government to reinstate judges deposed during the emergency of 2007.

Nawaz Sharif conveyed this when the Prime Minister of Pakistan Yousuf Raza Gilani telephoned him as well as his brother, former Chief Minister of Punjab, Shahbaz Sharif, to discuss about the political situation in Pakistan after the government's move to reinstate former Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and other deposed judges.

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Yousuf Raza Gilani told "political reconciliation among the democratic forces of the country would bring a positive change in the whole system." He also added that it will help the country confront the challenges before it.

Giving in to pressure from the lawyers' movement along with the PML-N that organised a long march to press for the restoration of all the deposed judges. PPP-led government today said that the judges would be reinstated to their former positions.

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