Tag: Gambling

Nine held for gambling

Shahzad Town police on Sunday raided a gambling den at Tarlie and arrested nine gamblers with Rs 4,700 stake money, playing cards and several...

3 killed in Karachi gambling den bombing

Three people were killed and another 20 injured in a hand grenade attack at a gambling club in Karachi’s Chakiwara police precincts on Friday....

19 arrested for gambling on cricket matches

FAISALABAD - Raza Abad police arrested two separate groups of cricket lovers after a tip off that they were gambling on cricket World Cup matches. Reportedly, a total of 19 arrests were made and thousands of rupees recovered that had been put on stake at the cricket match between India and England.
Raza Abad Station House Officer (SHO) Shahid Sarwar Alvi raided two separate places in Raza Abad and arrested Adnan, Bilal, Shahbaz, Sajjad, Ghulam Muhammad, Irfan, Kashif, Shahbaz,

Police crackdown on gambling makes no headway

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) and Lahore Police's proposed crackdown against gambling has yet to show any result, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The Lahore Police has made some progress, as it arrested around three dozen gamblers and bookies who were making the most of the ongoing World Cup. According to details, as soon as the mega event began on February 19, gamblers and bookies prepared themselves for earning huge money from the sporting festival. Gamblers, who

Lorgat favours legalisation of gambling in India

ABU DHABI - International Cricket Council (ICC) chief executive Haroon Lorgat favours legalisation of sports gambling in India while retaining his optimism for a corruption-free World Cup in the sub-continent. There has seldom been a cricket corruption of late without an Indian connection and the clamour is growing to legalise betting in a country where legal gambling is confined to horse-racing while casinos are allowed only in a couple of states.
Lorgat and his colleagues in

Sanjay Dutt going gambling

Sanjay Dutt is taking a fortnight long vacation with friends in Macau. The actor loves the Hongkong casinos and he has decided to take a short break from biwi, Manyata and the twins. Sanju has even invited his friends Ajay Devgan and director Milan Luthria to join him on the trip. Actually, Sanjay, Ajay and Milan have formed a new-born fathers' club. Ajay had his son, Yug in September, Milan had his daughter in October and Sanju had his twins, Iqra and Shahran in October. So these