Tag: Men

Magistrate recovers 4 men held by cops without evidence

KARACHI - The Malir judicial magistrate on Saturday recovered four men being detained at the Anti-Encroachment police station. Judicial Magistrate Ashfaq Ahmed Mughal paid a surprise visit to the police station and ordered the release of Ayub, Yahya, Jameel and Asif on personal bond since the police had failed to produce any evidence against the four men to justify their stay at the police station.
The judicial magistrate bound the SHO and the duty officer of the police station

US targets 2 Taliban, Al Qaeda money men

WASHINGTON - US authorities on Wednesday ordered sanctions on two Afghan nationals said to be part of the financial network that supports Al Qaeda, the Taliban and the Haqqani network. The US Treasury named as Specially Designated Global Terrorists Said Jan Abd Al-Salam and Khalil Al-Rahman Haqqani, a move that freezes any assets they hold in US jurisdictions that prohibiting Americans from transactions with them.
Al-Salam was designated for acting for or on behalf of Al Qaeda

Four security men killed in IED attacks

PESHAWAR - At least four personnel of the security forces, including an army officer and a police sub-inspector, were killed and seven injured in terrorist attacks in FR Bannu and Peshawar on Tuesday.
According to details, the militants targeted an army convoy with an improvised explosive device (IED) in Janikhel area of Frontier Region (FR) Bannu, around 150km south of the provincial capital which connects Khyber Pakhtunkhwa with volatile North Waziristan.
As a result,

Court indicts ex-FC men in corruption case

PESHAWAR - The Peshawar Accountability Court on Monday indicted former commandant of Frontier Constabulary Malik Naveed and 2 other officials on charges of illegal appointments and alleged embezzlement in weapons purchase. Accountability Court Judge Syed Afsar Shah indicted Malik Naveed, ex FC chief and former provincial chief Ghaniur Rehman Wazir, the then deputy commandant and Hamid Hassan in the NAB reference.

‘Mad Men,’ ‘Modern Family’ pick up WGA Awards

NEW YORK - Mad Men and Modern Family were big winners at the Writers Guild of America Awards tonight - the two series picked up trophies for Drama and Comedy Series categories, respectively. Mad Men also picked up an award for its "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" episode. (No doubt this acclaim only reminds Mad Men fans how relieved we are that a season 5 will air soon.) 30 Rock won in the TV Episodic Comedy category with "When It Rains, It Pours."
HBO's Boardwalk Empire can

KP Police has lost 500 men to militancy since 2007

PESHAWAR - The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) police have lost 500 men from constable to top level officers as the frontline force was confronting the highly trained and equipped militants in the ongoing fighting against terrorism since 2007, the official statistics stated.
The sufferings of policemen's lives in KP were higher than that of any other province in the country as the police officials were killed in bomb blasts, suicide attacks, remote controlled explosions and target

5 men given death sentence for killing SC additional registrar

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad district and sessions judge on Monday sentenced to death five men for killing an additional registrar of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, Syed Hammad Raza, in 2007. Judge Akmal Khan awarded the death sentence with a fine Rs 200,000.
Those sentenced to death are Sharifud din, Bashirud Din, Mumtaz Hussain, Mir Afzal and Mushtaq Hussain. However, accused Muhammad Basharat was given benefit of doubt and the judge ordered his release. In his verdict, the judge

CBS orders replacements for ‘Two and a Half Men’

LOS ANGELES - CBS has ordered two additional episodes of Monday sitcoms 'Mike and Molly' and 'Rules of Engagement' to help cope with scheduling issues arising from the absence of Charlie Sheen from the hit show 'Two and a Half Men,' according to sources.
These extra shows will fill in a schedule with sudden holes caused by the absence of Sheen, who reportedly is attempting a rehabilitation program at home with a trained expert in addiction. (Sheen's spokesman declined comment on

Wrong men convicted of Daniel Pearl murder

WASHINGTON - The wrong men were convicted of murdering US reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and beheaded in Pakistan in 2002, and US officials stood in the way of the real murderers being brought to justice for the grisly crime, a report released Thursday says.
British-Pakistani Omar Sheikh and three other men who were convicted of killing Pearl were not even present when the Wall Street Journal reporter was murdered, says the Pearl Project report, which was led by

The curious case of ‘unidentified men’

KARACHI - Attention sci-fi lovers, paranormal enthusiasts and mystery buffs of the world! Forget Star Wars, stop wasting time watching those The X-Files repeats and no, those ghost hunting reality shows are never going to prove that ghosts actually exist.
Karachi is where all the action is. This is the real deal... some serious sci-fi or supernatural stuff is going on here.
The city is being terrorised by forces far beyond our understanding. Every day, some strange, diabolical

Men shot by Israeli forces given anonymous burial in Gaza

GAZA - Palestinians gave anonymous burials on Tuesday to two men killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border and whose unclaimed bodies stirred speculation they might have been foreign migrant workers or al Qaeda supporters.
The two were shot on Jan. 5 while trying to clamber into Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, the army said. Palestinian medics who collected their corpses said the men wore civilian clothes and carried no weapons. Their skin was darker than most Gazans'.

NATO container gutted, FC men defuse landmine

QUETTA - Unidentified armed men set a NATO container on fire here on Monday while Frontier Corps Balochistan on Monday defused a landmine in another incident. In a raid here the local police also siezed 1000 kilograms of hashish.
During routine patrol Frontier Corps personnel spotted a landmine in Muchh area, some 70 KM southeast of Quetta. They called in mine-sweepers and defused the mine. Separately, a container carrying NATO supplies was coming from Karachi, when armed

Armed men raid WASA workshop, steal two trucks

LAHORE: Six armed men stole two trucks of Water and Sanitation Authority (WASA) from its mini workshop located in Gowala Colony in the Harbanspura police precincts on Sunday.
Harbanspura police has claimed to have recovered one of the two stolen trucks and arrested a truck lifter from Pindi Bhatian later on.
Armed men, equipped with sophisticated weapons, barged in the office of Aziz Bhatti Town Administration in Gowala Colony where WASA had also set-up its mini workshop and

60 ‘suspicious’ men held during Ashura procession

LAHORE - Law enforcement agencies have held around 60 suspicious men from the route of main Zuljinah procession on 10th of Muharram.
According to police out of 60 suspicious men, Police released 47 men after interrogations while shifted 13 men to unknown places for further interrogations.
Sources said that 8 suspicious men were arrested by the law enforcement agencies while roaming around Nisar Haveli, 38 were held roaming suspiciously in Andron Bhaati Gate Area and Tehsil

THE BLACK WIDOWS – Girls loot men after marriage

LAHORE - A group of girls have adopted a novel way to loot people; they marry men, fly abroad seeking refuge supposedly from their family and then deceitfully divorce, appropriating the groom's money.
MODUS OPERANDI: Senior police official tells about the group's working: the girls work separately and each member as an individual hunts her prey. The girls are educated and hail from suburban areas of Lahore. The first girl traps the man posing to be in love and then marry him.

5 Balochs, 2 FC men killed in 9-hour fight

QUETTA: Five Baloch youths and three personnel of paramilitary forces were killed, while another nine were injured in separate incidents of violence in Balochistan's Turbat and Kalat districts on Wednesday.
In the first incident in Turbat, the Frontier Corps lay siege to the house of Mir Ayub Gitchki, a central leader of the Balochistan National Party, after receiving a tip-off that wanted commander of Baloch Liberation Front, Mir Abbass Jan Gitchki, was in the house.
The

4 TTP men arrested

KARACHI: The Crime Investigation Department (CID) arrested four alleged Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) members believed to be involved in the CID office blast, and recovered a huge cache of weapons from their possession in Sohrab Goth on Saturday.
Sources told Pakistan Today that a CID team, headed by SP Chaudhry Aslam, received a tip off about six TTP men being present at a place in Gharo and raided it. However, the militants managed to flee. Later, the team conducted a raid