Tag: Interpol

FIFA joins forces with Interpol on illicit betting

World football’s governing body FIFA said Monday that it would fund an Interpol training programme to help tackle match fixing and irregular betting thought...

Pakistan to seek Interpol help to arrest Musharraf

RAWALPINDI - Pakistan will ask Interpol to circulate a global arrest warrant for former president Pervez Musharraf over the murder of ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
A Pakistani court last week gave prosecutors until April 2 to serve a warrant granted in February on Musharraf, who was president when Bhutto was killed in December 2007 in a gun and suicide bomb attack in Rawalpindi.
Musharraf, who lives in self-imposed exile in London, is accused of failing to provide her

Pakistan helped Interpol thwart World Cup terror plot

ISLAMABAD - Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble Thursday said that a terror bid was thwarted when a terrorist planning to target the ongoing cricket World Cup 2011 was arrested. He said the arrest was made in Maldives and the suspect was on his way from Karachi to Sri Lanka. He was addressing a joint news conference after meeting Interior Minister Rehman Malik here. The Interpol secretary general said that the Interpol managed to nab the terrorist with the assistance of Pakistan.

Foiled militant attack on cricket World Cup: Interpol

ISLAMABAD - Interpol said on Thursday it had foiled a militant plot to carry out an attack during the cricket World Cup now being played across South Asia.
"Last week, through cooperation from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the Maldives, we were able to identify, locate and arrest a terrorist," head of the Paris-based international police agency, Ronald K. Noble, told reporters in Islamabad along with Pakistani interior minister Rehman Malik.
He said the man with "criminal

Libya clashes intensify, Interpol issues Gaddafi alert

TRIPOLI - Muammar Gaddafi's forces battled rebels on several fronts in Libya on Friday and unrest erupted in the capital when gunmen fired to break up crowds shouting "Gaddafi is the enemy of God" while 17 protesters were killed in Benghazi.
Vowing "victory or death", eastern-based rebels pressed home a westwards push with an attack on the oil town of Ras Lanuf, which lies on a strategic coastal road, claiming to have taken its airport. In the west, security forces loyal to

Interpol asked to issue warrants for ‘corrupt’ Pakistanis

KARACHI - Interpol has been requested by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) for the issuance of arrest warrants against "all corrupt elements" who have escaped the country in the past for trial before a Pakistani court of law, claimed the Agency's Sindh Director Muazzam Jah at a press conference on Thursday.
Jah demanded that the Pakistan Steel Mills provide the FIA with names of all those involved in the corruption case of Rs 22 billion. He said that although the FIA