Tag: Crackdown

Police on Saturday arrested 22 outlaws and recovered illegal arms, drugs and liquor in special crackdowns against antisocial elements. Waris Khan police arrested Qasim...

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton joined her Indian counterpart on Tuesday in pressing Pakistan to do more to combat terror networks as they...

Police in Tehran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in “vulgar” dress, the city’s police chief said, according...

Peshawar Police on Thursday arrested more than 100 people, including Afghan nationals, in a fresh crackdown against illegal religious seminaries and their unregistered students....

The Sui Southern Gas Company (SSGC) has embarked upon a massive disconnection operation against the illegal gas connections in its franchise area of the...

Pakistani police on Wednesday said they had launched a crackdown on Sunni militants, detaining scores of suspects after being criticised for inaction over increased...

Police said Wednesday they had launched a crackdown on Sunni militants, detaining scores of suspects after being criticised for inaction over increased sectarian killings. "We...

The credibility of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), which makes tall claims of curbing human trafficking in Lahore and other districts of Punjab, was challenged...

Bangladeshi police arrested over 600 members of the country’s largest Islamist party on Tuesday, a day after protests demanding the release from jail of...

Syria, accused by France of committing "crimes against humanity," Thursday pressed its crackdown on dissent as it sent security forces into a northwestern village,...

Police arrested a powerful opposition politician and mining baron in India’s mineral-rich Karnataka state on Monday over illegal iron-ore production, the latest high profile...

Indian police arrested an anti-corruption hunger-striker and detained 1,400 of his supporters on Tuesday in a crackdown that provoked outrage in the world's biggest...

Karachi District Coordination Officer (DCO) Mohammad Hussain Syed directed the deputy district officers (DDOs) of the city government’s Revenue Department on Friday to launch...

Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ahmad Raza Tahir on Wednesday ordered to launch a vigorous campaign against fireworks manufactures and its traders, on...

The government is planning to launch a comprehensive search operation against criminal elements operating across the city, but the officers of the provincial law...

Syrian tanks on Saturday rolled into a village on the border with Turkey where workers are scrambling to erect a huge tent city for...

Harrowing eyewitness accounts piled up on Saturday after Syrian forces backed by helicopter gunships killed at least 25 protesters, prompting the US to toughen...