Bullish trend continued in the Karachi Stock Exchange on Friday and the KSE index reached the much awaited level of 10,000 points during its last trading session of the week.
The KSE-100 index closed at 10,025 after gaining 146 points towards the end of the session as healthy buying spurred the index to breach the psychological level of 10,000 points after 19 months.
Trading began on a positive note, though volumes were still relatively low as only 181 million shares were traded today. Foreign investors have been quite active at the bourse, while some local pickings also helped the markets cause. The twin blast in Lahore did damage the sentiment of the investors.

Five explosions have been reported in Iqbal town. The first blast occurred in an empty plot near crowded Moon Market in Kashmir Block. The second blast hit a car parked outside a house. The third blast also occurred in Kashmir Block. The fourth blast reported outside the residence of a Group Captain Inam-ul-Haq’s home in Zeenat Block. The fifth and the last blast struck Karim Block. Rescue teams and police have cordoned the area.
Panic and fear prevailed among the masses.
No causality has been reported. Cracker bombs were used in all the blasts.It was the seventh terror attack of the day in the city. Two blasts in Aray Bazaar this morning killed 40 people and injured 130 others.

This time, there is more than only average fun for all the IPL Cricket fans out there.

The Cricket League, which consists of an action packed tour of over 60 matches starting March 12 to April 25 can now be directly watched online at it’s official YouTube channel.
Matches can be watched with live-broadcast at YouTube with [...]

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Lahore, Pakistan :-  Five explosions have been reported in Iqbal town Lahore, Pakistan. The first blast occurred in a open plot near Moon Market where the explosive was dug in the ground. Rescue teams and police have cordoned the area.
The second and third explosion took place in Kashmir Block, one of which was outside Group [...]

Azm-e-Alishan: Building towards a Better Pakistan is a post from: ProPakistani

Azm-e-Alishan: Building towards a Better Pakistan is a post from: ProPakistani
Azm-e-Alishan is a national awareness drive initiated by concerned Pakistanis to enlighten and inspire the people for a better and progressive Pakistan. It is to celebrate 70 years of the Lahore resolution and to re-create the spirit of nationhood for a positive future. As Pakistanis [...]

LAHORE: Another blast near crowded Moon Market of Lahore.
The blast took place near Shah Noor Studio located in Iqbal Town at Multan Road.

Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said that neither the PPP-led coalition government made any political victimization nor any political leader has ever been arrested.
He said the matter relating the torturing of protesting employees of National Program for Improvement of Water Courses by police was a provincial subject; however he had already discussed it with the concerned member and Minister for Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal.
The Prime Minister said his government had taken all political parties on board to evolve consensus on all major issues including the constitutional reforms. PM said that he has requested the American government to remove Pakistan from screening list. PML-N demanded that VVIP security should be beefed up.

Sebastian Pinera was sworn in as new Chilean President. During the ceremony strong aftershocks rocked the country for the second time in two weeks.
In Valparaiso, the city where dozens of heads-of-state and other dignitaries were gathered, citizens gathered on high ground after a tsunami warning was issued by local authorities.
The warning was later lifted for everyone except Easter Island but it followed three massive aftershocks, the strongest at 6.9 magnitude.