Pakistan, Lahore police training school attack

KARACHI, March 30 (Reuters) - Despite a brazen militant attack on a police training centre in Lahore on Monday, Pakistani stocks rose 2.3 percent in early trade as investors took heart from moves by the government over the weekend to reconcile with the opposition.

Investors were also encouraged by the economic support promised by U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday in a strategy for countering militancy in Afghanistan and Pakistan, dealers said.

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Yahoo! BuzzThe Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) benchmark 100-share index was up 2.06 percent, or 140.88 points, higher at 6,967.87 at 12.25 a.m. (0725 GMT).

Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari said on Saturday he would recommend the ending of central rule in Punjab and support the return of a government led by rival Nawaz Sharif's party in the province.

'Investors are hoping for political stability as President Zardari announced end of Governor's rule,' said Shuja Rizvi, director of broking operations at Capital One Equities Ltd.

The Pakistani rupee was firmer at 80.42/47 to the dollar, compared with Saturday's close of 80.46/53 due to some inflows.

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[mercuryrazvedka]

Watch the videos attached above. They give the How and Why you destabilise a country. I am not saying it is good or bad just how it is. Our quality of life in the West is maintained by securing resources and markets at the expense of our economic rivals. Religion and Politics do not come into it but are used as deflections and screens.

[gauravcurious]

hehe ! porkis can,t even save their police/ army deployments from Taliban/ al-Qaeda & day dreaming to wave their flag on Delhi.

[rxrobin43]

i just want to talk about the comment givn on 30th of march gvn by tufan99 eithr u hav put your name like any ways or u do not understand anything here v r not talking abt wat an indian could do or a paki can do just brush up your mind and undrstand wat to say u guys hav only one problem u just speak but cant do anything wich v hav proved in last three major wars n v r just making our relation gud wid us as v knw v hav to grow up our market but wat about u people debt life given by ur govt..

[jaysingh6418]

yaar are these guys are Muslims fighting with Muslims..

lol Muslims vs Muslims...any one of win they would say Allah uh Akbar..lol

its joke..lol

[littlepakistan]

talibans are not very far from lahore;Soon they will take th whole country.

[whocares681]

see making a joke as an insult remains an insult and is not funny... So sorry to inform you either you need to work on your humor or not say anything at all...

[nydesiking]

oye SHUT up mehta if u dont know the TRUTH why you OPENING ur BLOODY mouth stupid KANJER!!!!!!!!!!1

[underworld786]

wat pussy pak govt is doin 2 kill those Raw,mossad funded beit ulah mesud and faiz ullah?why not pak army use dirty chemical gas and all these bastard taliban be dead,our enemy is taliban now not india,every paki police men shud be provided with bullet proof vest,latest weapons and use mobile signal jammers 2 disturb terrorists communication,then we can av victory over those taliban bastards..and ban all wahabi,deobandi madarsas,which is saudi clut...based on abdul wahab najdi pig teachings...

[hitback11]

PAKISTAN ZINDABAD....PAKISTAN ZINDABAD........PATHANS saray kanjar ....madarchood,....chuk ke le jaye gay....bundo pe fire maray gay hum pakistani sher

[khan008800]

murda baad pakistan

murda baad pakistan