Tag: Guards

LHC CJ’s elite guards refuse to perform ‘unfair’ duty

LAHORE - As many as 18 commandos of the Elite Police Force deputed for the security of Lahore High Court Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Tuesday refused to perform their duty, informing the security in-charge that they could not be on duty for 24 hours with the chief justice, at court and at his home.
Following the protest, the Elite Police Force sent a new batch of 18 commandos to provide security to the LHC chief justice.
The protesting officials said the stringent

BHC grants bail to Shahzain, 26 guards

Quetta - The Balochistan High Court granted bail to Shahzain Bugti, the provincial president of the Jamhoori Watan Party, and his 26 guards on Monday.
Shahzain, the grandson of slain Baloch leader Akbar Bugti was arrested by the Frontier Corps and local police at Baleli checkpost on December 22 along with his 26 bodyguards for carrying a large cache of weapons when they were travelling from Chaman to Quetta.
Mukesh Nath Kohli, lawyer for Bugti and his 26 men, moved a bail

Punjab governor’s murder – 2,000 guards of Sindh VVIPs sent back...

KARACHI - Over 2,000 security personnel deployed with VVIPs of Sindh have been sent back to their head offices, while the personal details of more than 1,000 personnel of law enforcement agencies will be sent to intelligence agencies for vetting, Pakistan Today has learnt.
According to the data of the Home Department, important personalities of Sindh enjoy the security of more than 8,000 police personnel and 4,000 personnel of other intelligence agencies. The assassination of

Coast guards seize 34kg of hashish

KARACHI - Pakistan Coast Guards (PCG) foiled an attempt to smuggle a consignment of hashish and heroin in Windar, Balochistan.
According to a PCG statement issued on Saturday, PCG officials stopped a car at Naka Khari check post and upon searching it found 34 kg hashish and 11 kg heroin from the car.
Seizing the drugs, PCG authorities has started investigation into the matter, the statement added.

And the CM addresses – Shahbaz’s guards ward off party workers

LAHORE - Owing to heightened security even the PML-N workers were denied access to Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and were maltreated during a function held in connection with Quaid's birth anniversary at Alhamra on Saturday.
This event was held under the aegis of Nazria-e-Pakistan Trust and Azad Kashmir President Raja Zulqarnain, MNAs, MPAs, prominent journalists, intellectuals, columnists and a large number of people from different walks of life attended the function.

Foreign forces raid in Kabul leaves two guards dead

KABUL: Two Afghan security guards have been killed after international forces raided the offices of a transportation company in Kabul, a senior police officer said Friday.
"Foreign forces have conducted an operation in district four of Kabul city in which two private guards of the business were killed," Mohammad Zahir, the city police's chief of criminal investigations, told AFP. He added that the guards worked for a private security company which provided services at Tiger

Court grants 7-day physical remand of Bugti, his 26 guards

QUETTA - An anti-terror court granted a seven-day physical remand of provincial president of Jamhoori Watan Party Shahzain Bugti and his 26 guards, a private TV channel reported on Thursday.
Outside the court, Shahzain told media that his arrest was directed at foiling his bid to hold a long march to Dera Bugti in January. Earlier, an FIR was registered against Shahzain, a grandson of the late Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, and his personal guards for keeping illegal arms.
On

Violent guards, complicit administrators – PU guards thrash IMPP students outside...

LAHORE: The Punjab University (PU) turned into a battlefield on Monday, as varsity security guards thrashed students of the Institute of Mycology and Plant Pathology (IMPP) including girls outside the VC Office.
The students were protesting for their demands when the security guards charged at them and started beating them black and blue. To make things worse, PU VC Dr Mujahid Kamran, the varsity registrar, resident officer and Hall Council Chairman Dr Amin Ather acted like

LDA guards beat up journalists trying to protect woman from violence

LAHORE: Security guards of the Lahore Development Authority (LDA) attacked the staff of the Dunya TV channel when they tried to rescue an elderly woman (an ex-LDA employee) from being beaten by the guards at the LDA Building on Egerton Road on Friday.
Fouzia, a teacher sacked from the LDA School in Johar Town, had approached the LDA along with court orders for her reinstatement. She was trying to meet the LDA's top brass when security guards headed by Sohaib Abdul Rehman began