Indian movies wanted

Financially stricken cinema owners in Pakistan are threatening to hold strikes if the government does not lift a ban on screening movies from India. Cinemas in Pakistan face great difficulties staying open due to a shortage of homemade movies, industry workers told media , saying that many of those produced were substandard and ‘full of vulgarity’, according to outside sources.

Train shocks eight

At least eight Shi’ite Muslims were electrocuted and more than 30 injured in southern Pakistan after being hit by live wires while travelling on the top of a train. The victims were travelling from Rawalpindi to a religious ceremony in Rohri during the Islamic month of Moharram, when the country’s Shi’ite minority mourns the death of one of their sect’s heroes. The accident occured near Shikarpur town around 400km (240 miles) from Hyderabad city.

Fishermen hotline

A new hotline linking coastal security agencies in India and Pakistan has helped prevent their fishermen from inadvertently crossing the disputed sea boundary. Hundreds of fishermen from the South Asian neighbours are arrested each year for straying into the other’s territorial waters near the disputed Sir Creek estuary in the Arabian Sea where the maritime boundary is not clearly demarcated. They are jailed for months and usually released when the two countries agree on a prisoner swap.

Majors shot dead

A retired Pakistani army captain gunned down two serving majors and injured a third person over an eviction dispute in the city of Rawalpindi. The incident occurred when the ex-officer was asked to settle utility bills. In the ensuing argument the captain pulled a gun and shot the owner, a major in the Pakistani army.
before vacating a house he had rented for the past five years from one of the serving officers. Police are searching for the assailant, who fled the scene of the shooting.

Ex-cricketeer arrested

Former Pakistan captain Moin Khan was arrested after an incident that prompted his wife to file charges against him. The former wicketkeeper, who played 69 Tests and 219 one-day Internationals, was detained at a police station in the upmarket Clifton area of Pakistan’s biggest city. “His wife called up the police.