21.  The main highway linking the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore with Islamabad has been sealed as well as the highway east to Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan.

22.  The office of the Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet was raided late Tuesday in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore.

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

24.  The three were killed just hours after police began arresting hundreds of Muslim militants, mostly in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore.

25.  The student wing of a hardline religious party attacked the U.S. consulate in the eastern Punjab capital on Wednesday to protest the American cruise missile assault on Iraq.

26.  Twenty-eight Shiite Muslims were gunned down last month in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore as they prayed at a graveyard.

27.  Those arrested earlier Thursday in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore were both Shiite and Sunni Muslim activists.

28.  Zardari repeated his accusations when he appeared in court Thursday in the eastern Punjab capital of Lahore.

29.  He said Mestiri might meet opposition Hezb-i-Islami faction leader Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the eastern provincial capital Jalalabad, before coming to Kabul to see Rabbani.

30.  Hekmatyar lives in the Army Corps headquarters in the eastern provincial capital, Jalalabad, near the Pakistan border.