Tag: Cops

Mujahid Squad SP punishes cops

Mujahid Squad SP dismissed two officials of the squad from services and awarded punishments to 42 other officials on charges of misconduct, negligence and...

118 useless, call the cops for complaints

As complaints of power outages continued to mount but remained unresolved, citizens in various parts of the city took to the streets on Tuesday...

Bombing at Nowshera courts kills 2 cops

A bomb attack targeting the District Courts in Nowshera on Tuesday killed two police constables including a female officer and wounded six other people,...

Two cops booked for taking bribes

District Police Officer Abdur Rab has ordered the arrest of two constables of the city police on the charges of receiving bribes. The DPO...

3 cops injured as police station building caves in

FAISALABAD - The terrified residents of Civil Lines ran out of their houses in panic on Tuesday when a powerful explosion at Civil Lines Police Station shook the building and the falling debris critically injured three policemen. The explosion was the result of the combustible material recovered from a terrorist group last month that had been stored on the roof of the police station. On March 8, a deadly attack that occurred outside an intelligence agency's building in the vicinity of

19 cops among 36 killed in Arab unrest

SANAA/CAIRO - Protests erupted across much of the Arab world on Friday, where demonstrators were killed in Syria and Yemen while Egyptians staged one of the biggest rallies since President Hosni Mubarak's fall.
State television reported that armed groups killed 19 policemen in Syria's southern city of Deraa, as activists and residents said at least 17 people were killed when Syrian security forces opened fire on thousands protesting against President Bashar al-Assad in the

Citizens rough up cops in Lahore, mistaking them as robbers

LAHORE - Harbanspura locals beat up four Muhafiz Squad police officers after midnight on Friday, thinking that they were dacoits. The local police late the same night reached the spot on a wireless call and arrested six people while different cases were registered against 18.
Some locals who mistook them as robbers dressed in police uniform beat up Sajid Husain, Tariq and Jibran Sohail from the Mujahid Squad near Shalamar Housing Scheme. The three policemen had spotted three

4 militants, 2 cops killed in Mardan shootout

MARDAN - As many as four militants and two police officers were killed and 10 policemen and civilians injured in a shootout on Fatima Road at Shahdhand Tuesday morning. Reportedly, on a tip off about the presence of some militants at Shahdhand graveyard, a party, headed by Hoti SHO Mian Mazhar Shah Khan, reached the spot and blocked the road.
As the police party saw four suspects, they ordered them to stop for checking. Instead of stopping, all the four militants resorted to

92 cops punished

LAHORE - Mujahid Squad SP Muntazir Mehdi punished 92 cops including 9 dismissals on charges of misconduct and corruption. According to a release issued on Tuesday, Muntazir dismissed 9 officials from service over long absence.
He issued censure notices to 40 cops, while forfeiture of service was awarded to 15 cops including three sub inspectors and two assistant sub inspectors. He also issued warning letters to 31 cops and show-cause notices to 42 cops of Mujahid Squad. He said

Two cops shot dead

KARACHI - Unidentified men opened fire on a police vehicle in Gulshan-e-Iqbal on Saturday night, killing two policemen. Mobina Town SHO said that head constable Zahir Shah and police constable Maqsood Ahmed were patrolling Quaid-e-Azam Colony in a mobile unit when two men on a motorcycle opened fire at them.
Shah suffered four bullet wounds in his upper torso and died on the spot, whereas Ahmed, who had also suffered multiple bullet wounds, succumbed to his injuries at the

Five cops among 10 booked for snatching man from bailiff

DASKA - Daska city police have registered a case against their five colleagues for snatching an illegally detained man from the bailiff of a court. Reportedly, Daska City Police Station had illegally detained Faisal Mehmood without his involvement in any case.
His wife, Aqsa Bibi, filed a writ petition in the court of Daska Additional District and Sessions Judge Sheikh Sajjad Ahmad who ordered a bailiff to raid the police station and recover the man. The court bailiff recovered

Watch out for traffic cops when you park

KARACHI - The city's traffic police in connivance with some private contractors are causing gross inconvenience to the citizens by lifting their vehicles from different locations allegedly over illegal parking without informing the owners. Most of the time, the vehicle owners are shocked on their return when they see that their vehicle is missing from the place where they had parked it, according to a survey conducted by Pakistan Today.
The traffic police personnel accompanied

Magistrate recovers 4 men held by cops without evidence

KARACHI - The Malir judicial magistrate on Saturday recovered four men being detained at the Anti-Encroachment police station. Judicial Magistrate Ashfaq Ahmed Mughal paid a surprise visit to the police station and ordered the release of Ayub, Yahya, Jameel and Asif on personal bond since the police had failed to produce any evidence against the four men to justify their stay at the police station.
The judicial magistrate bound the SHO and the duty officer of the police station

Cops punished for misconduct

LAHORE - Headquarters SP Rao Muneer Ahmad Zia punished 44 cops on charges of misconduct and corruption. According to a release issued on Thursday, Muneer dismissed 15 officials over long absence, stopped annual increments of three officials and awarded six-month forfeiture of service to an ASI.
LIQUOR FACTORY RAIDED: Sherakot police claimed to have arrested two drug dealers and recovered 2,400 bottles of liquor from a wine making factory on Thursday.
SHO Hussain Haider

Four cops killed in Quetta

QUETTA - Gunmen shot dead 4 police officers and abducted 6 other people, including a top administrator, from Aab-e-Gum area of the mountainous Bolan region, 60 kilometres south of Quetta, officials said Wednesday. "Gunmen shot dead four policemen on the main highway while they were heading towards Quetta," local police official Junaid Ahmad said.
"Earlier, we had reports of 5 police being killed but one of the policemen, who disappeared into the nearby mountains reported to his

Benazir’s murder case – court extends custody of accused cops

RAWALPINDI - The Anti-Terrorist Court (ATC) hearing the Benazir Bhtuuo's assassination case on Tuesday sent former City Police Officer (CPO) Saud Aziz and Superintendent of Police (SP) Khurram Shahzad on a 14-day judicial remand.
The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), after completing investigation, produced both the accused police officers in the court of ATC judge Rana Nisar Ahmed, who rejected their bail plea and sent them on remand. The court fixed next hearing on February

IG sacks cops on kidnap, rape charges

QUETTA - Balochistan Police Inspector General Malik Muhammad Iqbal has put two constables under termination for being guilty of kidnapping and raping a girl in Quetta. Police has taken constable Jahanzaib and Shahzaib into custody.
According to details, accused constables abducted a girl and later raped her. They also took nude photos of the victim besides threatening her of dire consequences if she told anybody about the incident. After being informed of the incident, the IG