Tag: Crime

Bangladeshi prosecutors have filed war crime charges against an Islamist leader, accusing him of genocide, murder and rape during the country’s 1971 liberation struggle,...

Despite tall claims and press statements, the police lag far behind in its duty of protecting people and their properties. Dacoits, thieves and gangsters...

Lahore Police have been directed to take stern action against crimes bosses instead of going after only small criminals, Lahore Capital City Police Officer...

Nearly 600 people, mostly Taiwanese and Chinese, were rounded up across Asia for suspected massive online fraud in a rare example of regional police...

The Law and Justice Commission of Pakistan (LJCP) on Saturday took serious note of the practice of giving women and young girls in marriage...

of crime through use of latest technology is the need of the hour, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ahmed Raza Tahir said...

A Bin Qasim Association of Trade and Industry (BQATI) delegation called on Sindh Governor Dr Ishratul Ebad at the Governor’s House and informed him...

The National Assembly on Tuesday unanimously passed ‘The Acid Control and Acid Crime Prevention Bill 2010’ which recommends 14-year to lifetime imprisonment sentence and...

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court has ordered the Home Department to submit a comparative chart of crimes committed during the time when pillion riding was banned.
A division bench comprising Justice Faisal Arab and Justice Ghulam Sarwar Korai issued the directives to the Sindh Home Department for submitting the chart within two weeks.
The bench was hearing a petition filed by Deedar Ali Chandio Advocate, pleading to exempt lawyers from the pillion riding ban.
Arguing on

ISLAMABAD - The federal capital witnessed an alarming increase in incidents of robbery, car-theft and cheque-fraud, with Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police registering eight robbery, seven car-theft and seven cheque-fraud cases in the last week alone.
ICT police told Pakistan Today that they had registered two cases of murder last week, while the week before last, they had registered three cases of murder, two cases of robbery, six cases of car-theft and seven cases of

KARACHI - A local newspaper's chief crime reporter was gunned down by unidentified culprits in the Baghdadi police precincts on Saturday. Police said that Zaman Ali, 42, was near the Hussain Bhai Ismailji Road when two men on a motorcycle opened fire on him. Ali suffered a bullet to the head and died on the spot, whereas his body was shifted to the Civil Hospital Karachi. The Crime Reporters Association condemned his murder and sought protection for working journalists.
'BOOKIE'

LAHORE - Curbing crime from the society, increasing inspection and internal accountability, watching merit, discipline and training would alternatively lead to combat the terrorism, said Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Javed Iqbal on Monday. All ASPs should follow these priorities while entering into professional life, he added while addressing to 37 trainees of ASPs of 37th Common Batch including 3 female at CPO, today. On this occasion, Punjab Additional IGP Chaudhry

LAHORE - National Highway and Motorway Police (NHMP) elite commandoes will patrol crime affected areas to check criminal activities on all national highways and motorways, NHMP Inspector General (IG) Dr Wasim Kausar said on Monday.
He was chairing a meeting to review the crime situation on national highways and motorways at his office. Kausar directed sector commanders to do personal patrolling in the night shift and deploy special crime checking squads to check criminal

KARACHI - According to his case file, 20-year-old Jawad is serving three years at the Central Prison Karachi (CPK) for stealing a shopkeeper's cell phone when the man wasn't looking. The young man was caught, the cell phone was recovered, and he was beaten up and handed over to the police, who beat him up further and started legal proceedings against him. On account of his age, his crime did not fall under the jurisdiction of the juvenile courts. Jawad, however, is not a 'grown-up'

KASUR - Chunian Bar Association observed a strike against the rising crime in the area and the lawyers boycotted the courts' proceedings completely. Tehsil Bar Secretary General Muhammad Akram said police had failed to control the crime in the district as the robbery incidents had increased. The lawyers demanded higher authorities take concrete steps to control crimes and ensure proper patrolling of police in the tehsil.
FAMILY DEPRIVED OF CASH, GOLD ORNAMENTS: Bandits deprived a

DASKA - Daska is in the grip of a fresh crime wave as the people feel insecure owing to the rising robberies and thefts in the city.
The people alleged that Daska police had failed to protect their lives and properties and added that the culprits involved in heinous crimes had not been traced.
They further said the Daska police remained busy discharging special political duties leaving the citizens at the mercy of criminals. The outlaws remained active in Daska and took away

LAHORE - Former foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has said that he had no greed for ministries and opposing the US in the Raymond Davis case was not a crime. Addressing a gathering in Multan on Saturday where thousands accorded him a warm welcome, Qureshi made an emotional speech saying he had been punished for telling the truth about Davis and his claims of having diplomatic immunity.
Qureshi said he belonged to a saintly background and believed that if one door closed,