Tag: Guards

Foreign journalists on Friday spoke of their distress after being asked to remove their bras for a security check before being allowed into the...

After a guard in DHA shot down a supervisor and a shophand at the shop he was assigned to guard over a minor issue,...

A Bangladesh military court sentenced 657 border guards upto seven years of imprisonment on Monday for their involvement in 2009 mutiny at its headquarters...

Russia's federal guard service, in charge of protecting President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, may soon sport black leather overcoats harking back...

Lack of insurance cover and low salaries are contributing to the hardships of private security guards as security companies are just making money instead...

Around 300 security guards from Jinnah Hospital and Allama Iqbal Medical College (AIMC) announced on Sunday that they will establish the Young Guards Association...

KARACHI - Five men equipped with weapons robbed a private bank in Jodia Bazaar of Rs 9.85 million with the help of the bank's security guard early Thursday morning, the Kharadar Police said.
According to Kharadar Police Sub-Inspector Ghulam Ishaq, five men entered the Jodia Bazaar branch of the Muslim Commercial Bank at 6:30 am on Thursday with the help of the bank's security guard, Muhammad Anwar, who was deployed there by Mastan Security.
The robbers held the bank staff

PESHAWAR - Militants early Friday beheaded three security guards at a NATO truck terminal and damaged 10 oil tankers in a restive Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan, officials said.
The murders took place at the NATO supply vehicle hub in Landi Kotal, a town in the restive Khyber tribal district where the bulk of supplies destined for foreign troops in Afghanistan pass through.
"Early Friday we found the beheaded bodies of three security guards from the NATO

KARACHI - Crying out loud for scarcity of funds to even purchase fuel for running power plants, the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) is bearing additional expenses by hiring private security guards and drivers, while completely disregarding its own staff employees.
Well-placed sources in the power utility told Pakistan Today that despite the two departments of transport and security being completely outsourced, the company is also paying its recently-reinstated lower-staff

TEHRAN - Four Iranian forest guards have been killed in what an official said was a "terrorist act" in the western province of Kurdistan, ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.
"Preliminary investigations show that this terrorist act was brutally carried out by anti-revolutionary forces," Kheyrollah Moradi, head of the provincial environmental organisation, was quoted as saying. He said the four went missing from an area called Dooshan at about 09:30 am (0600 GMT) on Friday, and

ISLAMABAD - Private security guards hired by citizens on the advice of capital police are ill-equipped and untrained, and have clear instructions from their employers not to use their guns in any circumstances. In the wake of rising terrorists activities and street crimes, one can see security guards on almost every street, outside hotels, markets and offices, with the Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) administration having registered around 150 security companies so far.
"The

LAHORE - Under the directions of Adviser to Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor Col (r) Ikram Ullah and PU Chief Security Officer (CSO) Major Arif, the varsity's security guards with the help of the Punjab Police roughed up students, both male and female, on Wednesday.
FEMALES TORTURED: Female students were seen crying and invoking Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Chief Justice Lahore High Court, demanding PU VC Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran and Ikram Ullah's termination,

LAHORE - Three University of Education (UoE) students were injured on Thursday when union activists and security guards clashed with each other. UoE faculty and students condemned the student union activists for attacking the varsity campus while security guards said that they had already informed the varsity administration that student activists will attack the campus.
Guards said that a number of protesters were not varsity students and protesting for their vested interests

ISLAMABAD - Pelted with stones by protesting vendors and shopkeepers, Capital Development Authority's (CDA) 2 guards were injured during an anti-encroachment operation at G-9 Markaz on Wednesday. Protesters also damaged CDA vehicles that took part in the operation launched by the civic body's Directorate of Municipal Administration (DMA).
The operation was launched simultaneously at G-9 Markaz (Karachi Company), Aabpara Market and G-10 Markaz. DMA Assistant Director Riaz said CDA

KARACHI - Law enforcement agencies on Wednesday tried to arrest Federal Minister of State for Ports and Shipping Nabeel Gabol after he tendered his resignation.
Law enforcers arrived at Gabol's house to arrest him, but their attempt was made unsuccessful by his private security guards and other companions."We have received orders from our high-ups to detain you and shift you to Islamabad," the head of the police party told Gabol.
The law enforcement agencies later made a

ISLAMABAD - The Presidency has said that no proposal is under consideration to employ foreign guards for the security of the president.
Contradicting the report published in a section of media, stating that the government was considering hiring foreign guards for the president's security, President's Spokesman Farhatullah Babar said that the reports were completely devoid of truth.
He said that none of the personal staff for the president, from the military secretary (MS) to

KARACHI - The Sindh government has decided to monitor the hiring process of private security agencies working in the province to ensure that they do not give jobs to terrorists and criminals. It would also take action against security agencies operating without the government's permission.
The decisions were taken in a meeting on Tuesday between a seven-member All Pakistan Security Agencies Association (APSAA) delegation led by its chairman Muzzaffar Ata Malik and Sindh Home