Rawalpindi, Mar 4: The in-camera trial of the Mumbai attacks’ masterminds and perpetrators arrested by Pakistan has started at Adiala Jail in Rawalpindi.

Anti Terrorism Court-II (ATC-II) on Tuesday started the trial. Judge Sakhi Muhammad Kahoot is trying Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a resident of Islamabad, Abdul Wajid alias Zarar Shah of Sheikhupura, Mazhar Iqbal alias Abu Al-Qama of Islamabad and Hammad Amin of Rahimyar Khan for aiding and abetting the Mumbai attacks.

Islamabad, Mar 2: Body tattoos are increasingly becoming popular in Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

The emergence of tattoo culture has brought with it several new artists who have technical and fine arts training, leading to an improvement in the quality of tattoos.

“In modern culture, it is a fashion and because I am an artist, I want to promote this art in one way or the other that is why I get tattooed here,” the Daily Times quoted Wasim Elahi as saying.

Rawalpindi, Feb 17 : The views expressed by former President Pervez Musharraf are tantamount to rubbing salt into the wounds of the nation because it is his dictatorship that pushed Pakistan towards political and constitutional anarchy.

Commenting on the press conference of Musharraf, PML-N Information Secretary Ahsan Iqbal said on Geo TV's `Aaj Kamran Khan Ke Sath': "Pakistan had received 80 billion dollars since 2002, but no project was executed for development in the country but the money has vanished."

Rawalpindi, Jan 19 : A group of Pakistani lawyers who had come to receive deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry at the Benazir International Airport attacked the motorcade of Attorney General Sardar Latif Khosa immediately after the latter came out lounge en route to Islamabad.

The deposed Chief Justice and Khosa arrived at the airport in the same flight.

The lawyers gave warm welcome to the deposed CJ, shouting slogans in his favour and showering rose petals on his car.

The Punjab Government also provided him official protocol, the Daily Times reported.

Rawalpindi, Jan. 4 : Failing to bring the real perpetrators behind Benazir Bhutto's assassination to book, an anti-terrorism court in Pakistan has now issued arrest warrants on two judicial magistrates for not appearing before it despite a summon.

Bailable warrants were issued against magistrates Ahmed Masood Janjua and Chaudhary Toufeeq Ahmed by ATC-I Judge Chaudhary Habibur Rehman, the Dawn reported.

The court has directed both magistrates to appear before it on January 17 and asked each of them to submit surety bonds worth 10,000 rupees.

Both magistrates had earlier recorded the statements of five of the accused in the Benazir assassination case and were to submit the same before the court.

Rawalpindi, Dec. 27 : On the eve of her first death anniversary, the sale of Pakistan's former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's portraits and pictures, touched a record high.

The Rawalpindi city is flooded with the stalls selling Bhutto's pictures, however, the largest collection of Benazir Bhutto's pictures was available near Liaquat Bagh, where she was assassinated on December 27, 2007, The News reported.

Bhutto has acquired the status of `heroine of democracy' in the Pakistan post her assassination.