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Agencies Published May 10, 2013
Family members, left and second left, arrive at the Indian side of the border to meet Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq at Wagah, India, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Haq, savagely attacked in an Indian jail last week died early May 9, 2013, from his injuries. He suffered massive head injuries in a prison in the northern city of Jammu in an apparent tit-for-tat attack after an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, was fatally assaulted in Pakistan.
Family members, left and second left, arrive at the Indian side of the border to meet Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Haq at Wagah, India, Tuesday, May 7, 2013. Haq, savagely attacked in an Indian jail last week died early May 9, 2013, from his injuries. He suffered massive head injuries in a prison in the northern city of Jammu in an apparent tit-for-tat attack after an Indian prisoner, Sarabjit Singh, was fatally assaulted in Pakistan.
Pakistani cricketers taking part in a team practice session in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital. Pakistan's tough tour of South Africa has put them in the right mindset for the Champions Trophy, captain Misbah-ul-Haq said on May 8 after a training camp aimed at attuning the team to English conditions.
Pakistani cricketers taking part in a team practice session in the Pakistani garrison town of Abbottabad, north of the Pakistani capital. Pakistan's tough tour of South Africa has put them in the right mindset for the Champions Trophy, captain Misbah-ul-Haq said on May 8 after a training camp aimed at attuning the team to English conditions.
Rescue workers try to save people trapped inside a burning building in central Lahore, May 9, 2013. Three people fell from the 13-storey LDA plaza situated on Lahore’s Edgerton road on Thursday, May 9, trying to avoid a fire that engulfed the building, DawnNews reported. In total at least eight people have now died in the tragedy.
Rescue workers try to save people trapped inside a burning building in central Lahore, May 9, 2013. Three people fell from the 13-storey LDA plaza situated on Lahore’s Edgerton road on Thursday, May 9, trying to avoid a fire that engulfed the building, DawnNews reported. In total at least eight people have now died in the tragedy.
People comfort Musa Gilani, right, the brother of Ali Haider Gilani (both sons of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani) who has been kidnapped in Multan, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013.
People comfort Musa Gilani, right, the brother of Ali Haider Gilani (both sons of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani) who has been kidnapped in Multan, Pakistan, Thursday, May 9, 2013.
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013.
A Pakistani army helicopter rescues a man from a burning building in Lahore on May 9, 2013.

From cricket camp, to the death of Sanaullah Haq, fire in Lahore, and the abduction of the son of former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani. – Photo and text by Agencies

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