11.  Just hours after the crackdown began, masked gunmen shot and killed a Shiite Muslim leader in the eastern Punjab provincial capital of Lahore.

12.  New Zealand won the toss Wednesday and sent Pakistan into bat in a crucial Group B World Cup match at Qaddafi Stadium in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore.

13.  On Tuesday Major will address an investment seminar in the eastern Punjab provincial capital of Lahore before leaving for London.

14.  On Wednesday the crackdown continued with police arresting dozens more, many of them in the eastern capital of Lahore.

15.  Record low rainfall has worsened a water shortage in Jinan, an eastern provincial capital known for its springs and lakes, state-run media said Monday.

16.  State television, which carried the Havana march live, also showed images of large marches in the eastern provincial capitals of Holguin and Santiago.

17.  The car exploded in the parking lot of the Lahore Sessions Court in the congested center of this eastern provincial capital.

18.  The dead were mostly peasant farmers travelling with their produce to a market in the eastern provincial capital of Mutare, the radio said.

19.  The government has sealed the main highways from the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore, the headquarters of Jamaat-e-Islami.

20.  The main highway linking the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore and Islamabad had been sealed, as well as the highway east to Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan.