Tag: Crime

Nine-year-old ‘gang-raped, eyes gouged out’ in Indian-held Kashmir

A nine-year-old child has been gang-raped and murdered in Indian-administered Kashmir's Baramullah district, bringing back memories of the brutal gang rape of an eight-year-old...

244 citizens killed in 2018 so far: police

LAHORE: At least 244 people were killed in the provincial capital in the present year, a crime report compiled by the local police has...

Philippine police vow ‘surgical and chilling’ war on drugs, crime

MANILA: Philippine police vowed on Monday to revamp and intensify a fight against crime and drugs, a week after President Rodrigo Duterte promised no...

Man kills wife, infant son by throwing them in stream

HAFIZABAD: A man killed his wife and four-month-old son by throwing them in a stream over alleged domestic dispute here on Friday. Police said that the...

Operations wing arrests 157 accused, recovers Rs7.6mln during June

--237 arrested over illegal possession of weapons, 389 drug dealers also held   LAHORE: In a rather impressive show of efficacy, operations wing of the Lahore Police,...

KP notices significant decrease in terror incidents

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province has witnessed a noticeable decrease in terror incidents in the first five months of 2018, as compared to the...

Man kills his four children including three girls in Gujrat

GUJRAT: A Father killed his four children. Including three girls and one boy, in Gujrat using an axe, police told media on Sunday. According to details,...

KP police launch app to automatically identify crime location

PESHAWAR: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Inspector General Police (IGP) Salahuddin Mehsud on Thursday launched a mobile application that will inform the police immediately about a crime...

Body found riddled with bullets remains unidentified

LAHORE: A mysterious bullet-riddled body was found in Lahore that remains unidentified, police sources said on Wednesday. According to the preliminary investigation, the body of a 35-year-old...

Triple divorce should be punishable crime: CII

ISLAMABAD: Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) Chairman Qibla Ayaz has said that “triple divorce” should be a punishable crime and he will submit a...

Rangers arrest three, including extortionist

KARACHI: Sindh Rangers on Wednesday arrested three alleged criminals, including an alleged extortionist, during search operations in different parts of the city. According to a Rangers...

Japanese crime boss arrested in Thailand after ‘yakuza’ tattoos go viral

BANGKOK: A retired Japanese crime boss has been arrested in Thailand ending more than 14 years on the run after photos of his ‘Yakuza’ tattoos...

Karachi citizen runs over suspected robbers in Jauhar

KARACHI: A citizen in Karachi on Sunday ran over two suspected robbers as they tried to flee after allegedly looting him, killing one and...

Body parts of five people discovered in plastic bags in Mexico

COATZACOALCOS: The mutilated remains of five people were found in plastic bags in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz, one of the country's most...

Crime writer Ian Rankin predicts rise of ‘kind, gentle’ literature again

Global turmoil after seismic events such as Brexit and the election of President Donald Trump may push readers away from dystopian crime fiction to...

Karachi to have 10,000 CCTV cameras to curtail crime against women

  KARACHI: Karachi may soon have 10,000 closed-circuit television cameras installed at different sites, along with some cameras already functional, under the domain of Karachi...

Brother killed, other injured in robbery incident in Karachi

KARACHI: A man was killed and his brother injured when they tried to resist robbers in Jauharabad area of the metropolis on Thursday. According to rescue...