Tag: Police

VERSAILLES - French police fined a woman for wearing a full-face Islamic veil, the first reported enforcement of a ban on the garment on the day it came into effect, a police source said Tuesday.
The young woman, born in 1983, was fined 150 euros (216 dollars) "without incident" in a shopping centre in Mureaux, northwest of Paris, early Monday evening, the source said, without elaborating on exactly what she was wearing.
France on Monday became the first country in Europe to

LAHORE - Following the instructions of Punjab Chief Minister, four brand new Corolla cars equipped with modern gadgets were handed over to the City Traffic Police on Monday for patrolling on Ring Road. MNA Hamza Shahbaz Sharif handed over the car keys to Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) SSP Ahmad Mobin in a ceremony and said that new patrolling cars would further improve City Traffic Police's performance.
He added that new patrolling cars would help in implementing traffic rules and

PARIS - Paris police on Monday arrested two veiled women and several other people protesting in front of Notre Dame cathedral against France's new ban on wearing full-face veils in public.
An AFP journalist at the scene said the arrests came after police moved in to break up the protest which had not been authorised.
On Saturday police arrested 59 people, including 19 veiled women, who turned up for a banned protest in Paris against the draconian new law, the first of its

KARACHI - Sindh won the shooting gold in the inaugural Pakistan Police Games by accumulating 1646 points at Razzaqabad Range on Friday. Sindh shooters collected 575 in G-3 and 738 in Sub-machine Gun to gain a 335 points lead in the four team contest.
Punjab took the silver with 1627 points while Islamabad and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa secured third and fourth spot with 1542 and 1340 points, respectively.

KARACHI - Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari on Saturday announced revamping the Police Helpline 15 for efficient crime reporting and police action. He said this while addressing a luncheon meeting at the office of Korangi Association of Trade and Industry (KATI).
Agreeing that cases of kidnapping were not only defaming Karachi but tarnishing the image of Pakistan internationally, the provincial police chief assured the business community that effective

KARACHI - The Sindh Police have arrested 84 accused involved in various crimes in the province during the past 24 hours.
An announcement to this effect was made in a police statement on Saturday.
It said that weapons and narcotics were also recovered from their
possession.

KARACHI - Five men allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Wali Khan Babar were sent on police remand till the 18th by an anti-terrorism court (ATC), but they will have to be produced before the court at the next hearing.
The accused, including Shahrukh alias Mani, Naveed alias Polka, Shakil Malik, Faisal Mehmood alias Nafsiyati and Syed Muhammad Ali Rizvi, were produced before an ATC on Friday, with the police seeking their physical remand for further interrogation. The

LAHORE - Lahore Police on Friday launched a massive search and sweep operation in various areas of the provincial capital to arrest three suicide bombers who recently entered the city to carry out terrorist attacks.
Separate police teams, late on Thursday night, launched operations in various areas of the city including Shahdara, Lorry Adda, Badami Bagh, Misri Shah, Mughalpura, Shalimar, surroundings of Bund Road, Sherankot, Thokar Niaz Baig, Choong, Green Town, Dharampura,

SINGAPORE - Singapore police said on Thursday they are investigating a report lodged by the Asian golf tour alleging their former finance and human resources manager had gone missing and a sum of money was unaccounted for.
The Asian Tour said former employee Adrian Lee had disappeared and that they had reported the matter to police.
The tour said company funds were missing "following internal checks" and that all attempts to contact Lee had been unsuccessful.
"We have

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) observed that the prosecution has failed to unearth any incriminating material that connects the former Rawalpindi CPO Saud Aziz and an SP Shahzad Khurram with Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
The bench observed that despite keeping the said people in a 24-day remand, the joint investigation team of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) could not establish the allegations under which both police officers had been charged. The

GUJRANWALA - A notorious criminal was shot dead in an encounter with police near Sheranwala Park at GT Road while his three accomplices managed to escape. Reportedly, Ladhewala Warraich police conducted a raid in the residential area in the Sheranwala Park locality to arrest a robber, Sarfraz of village Varpal Chattha.
Sarfraz started firing to avoid his arrest. The police also opened fire killing him instantly.
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KANDAHAR - Six Afghan security personnel were killed on Thursday as Taliban gunmen detonated a bomb hidden in an ambulance at a police centre near the key southern city of Kandahar.
The attack was the latest to target Afghanistan's Western-backed security forces just a few months before US-led NATO troops start limited withdrawals after nearly 10 years of war against the Taliban.
"Insurgents have blown up an ambulance vehicle full of explosives which killed six members of

KANDAHAR - Six Afghan security personnel were killed Thursday as Taliban gunmen detonated a bomb hidden in an ambulance amid an attack on a police centre near the key southern city of Kandahar.
The blast was the latest to target Afghanistan's security forces just a few months before US-led NATO troops start limited withdrawals after nearly 10 years of war against the Taliban.
"Insurgents have blown up an ambulance vehicle full of explosives which killed six members of the

PESHAWAR - The city police have arrested 55 criminals and seven proclaimed offenders and recovered caches of weapons from their possession on Wednesday, police said.
According to details, the police on special directives of CCPO Laiqat Ali Khan, started grand operation in various areas of the city and booked seven proclaimed offenders and 55 outlaws.
The police also recovered six kalashnikovs, six pistols, one gun, hundred of cartridges besides 32 kilogram opium and 9

LAHORE - A division bench of the Lahore High Court Tuesday granted bail to Saud Aziz, former City Police Officer (CPO) Rawalpindi, and then SP Rawalpindi City Khurram Shehzad in the murder case of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto.
The bench comprising LHC Chief Justice Ijaz Ahmad Chaudhry and Justice Ijazul Ahsan allowed bail to Saud Aziz and Khurram Shahzad on surety bonds of Rs 1 million each. The court also directed the accused to surrender their passports to stop them

KARACHI - An alleged bandit was killed in a police encounter near Kalapul on Monday. Defence police said that two suspects riding a motorcycle had robbed a hawker of cash, mobile phone and his motorcycle near the Kalapul when the police reached the spot.
On getting information from the victim, the police gave the alleged bandits a chase and intercepted them near the Kalapul flyover. However, the suspects opened fire on the police party and when the law enforcers retaliated, one

SANAA - Yemeni police killed one protester and wounded scores of others when they opened fire on anti-government demonstrators in the city of Taez on Sunday, witnesses said.
"The man was shot in the chest while tearing up a poster of President Ali Abdullah Saleh," one witness said.
Others said that at least 250 protesters were injured, some with live bullets, when police fired tear gas and gunfire to disperse a protest heading to the governorate headquarters in Taez, some