PML-N secures three seats in NA,six in Punjab and one in NWFP assemblies Jun 27, 2008
The PML-Ns Fida Hussain won from PP-277 (Bahawalnagar) by securing 34,282 votes. In Sindh, the PPPs Syed Muhammad Bachal Shah won from PS-30 (Khairpur) with 27,883 votes. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
District police arrested eight alleged suicide bombers and seized suicide jackets and related detonation material from their possession. Apr 6, 2008
BAHAWALNAGAR: District police arrested eight alleged suicide bombers and seized suicide jackets and related detonation material from their possession. Bahawalnagar District Police Officer Syed Zafar Abbas Bokhari told media on Saturday that 45 kilogrammes of explosive material had also been seized from the suspected bombers. (Daily Times, Pakistan)
Bhutto's son, 19, to succeed her as PPP leader Dec 31, 2007
Two suspected suicide bombers died in the eastern city of Bahawalnagar died early Sunday when their bomb detonated prematurely. They were near the residence of a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q.. (CTV.ca)
Two Pak bombers die in botched attack Dec 30, 2007
The men were on a motorcycle and were not far away from the residence of Ijazul Haq, a senior leader of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, in the city of Bahawalnagar when their bomb exploded, said Zafar Abbas Bukhari, the district police chief ... Bahawalnagar is a deeply conservative city in the eastern Punjab province. (India Times, India)
Pakistan rejects outside Bhutto probe Dec 30, 2007
In the eastern city of Bahawalnagar, two suspected suicide bombers died early Sunday when they prematurely detonated their bomb near the residence of Ijazul Haq, a senior leader of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q party, police said. Most read. (Anchorage Daily News)
'Honour' questionsWhy self-confessed killers expect to walk free in Pakistan Feb 6, 2007
By M Ilyas Khan BBC News, Bahawalnagar district, eastern Pakistan ... Despite this social difference, the people in Khatan, 30km north-east of the town of Bahawalnagar, appear to side with the Maachhis for what the local councillor, Ahmad Riaz Sukhera, calls "obvious reasons" ... "They have confessed to the murders before the police, but they are not so dumb as to repeat that confession before the judge," says the Bahawalnagar district police chief, Zafar Abbas Bukhari. (BBC News -- South Asia)
