Tag: Police

BAKU - Azerbaijan police detained more than 30 activists of the opposition Musavat Party when its members took to the street of Baku on Saturday to protest against the ruling elite following a similar rally a day before.
Azerbaijan, an energy supplier to Europe and a transit route for US troops in Afghanistan, has been ruled by one family for nearly two decades since Soviet veteran Heydar Aliyev came to power in 1993. He was succeeded by his son Ilham in 2003.
About 200

LAHORE - A powerful cylinder blast killed three labourers and injured two others at a gas cylinder manufacturing factory near Police Training School, Choong on Saturday.
The cylinder exploded at a time when workers at MZ Engineering factory were filling gas into a cylinder to check its capacity at around 1pm. The cylinder exploded with a big bang causing destruction. Rescue 1122 officials, Edhi ambulances and police reached the scene and started the rescue operation. The bodies

LAHORE - Despite a 36 hour lapse, Cantt Police's Investigation Wing has been unable to trace a criminal record to two men gunned down by Baghbanpura Police Station 50-year-old constable during an alleged encounter near the Pakistan Mint Stop on the GT Road on Thursday.
On Friday the families of the youth claimed the Baghbanpura Police had killed them over nothing. On Thursday, Constable Arshad shot dead the two boys when returning to the Baghbanpura Police Station after finishing

KARACHI - Despite the passage of over two years, Karachi's traffic police are still without FM (frequency modulation) radio channel aimed at facilitating citizens regarding latest developments, including traffic management and gridlocks.
In early 2008, the Sindh Home Department, in collaboration with the Information Technology Department, had decided to launch an FM radio channel, which was supposed to operate round-the-clock, broadcasting up-to-date information to the citizens

RIYADH - Saudi Arabia launched a massive security operation on Friday in a menacing show of force to deter protesters from a planned a "Day of Rage" to press for democratic reform in the kingdom. Illegal demonstrations were supposed to start after Muslim Friday prayers at noon but as the mosques emptied there were no signs of rallies, with security men manning checkpoints in key locations across several cities. In the strategic Olaya commercial centre of the capital Riyadh, where

SRINAGAR - Police in Indian Kashmir said Thursday they had shot dead the top commander of a Pakistan-based militant group blamed for a series of local attacks, including an assault on the state assembly in 2001. The chief of Jaish-e-Mohammad (JEM), Sajjad Afghani, and his bodyguard were killed in a gunfight along the banks of Dal Lake in Srinagar, the biggest city in Kashmir, senior police chief S.M. Sahai told reporters. Afghani, who was also known among the militant ranks as "Qari

STOCKHOLM - The Swedish police officer in charge of questioning two women who say they were raped and molested by the founder of WikiLeaks is a friend of one of the alleged victims, a report said on Thursday. According to the Expressen daily, the unnamed officer had exchanged personal messages with one of Julian Assange's alleged victims over the Internet more than a year before taking statements from her about the claims.
The woman officer, who like the alleged victim referred

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT) police have failed to solve five blind murders occurred in the first two months of current year. Two cases took place in Industrial Area Police Station precincts while two people were killed Ternol Police Station limits and one person was killed in the jurisdiction of Margalla Police Station. But police with despite its reported excessive patrolling have yet not traced the killers yet, Pakistan Today has learnt.
A senior official

LAHORE - "Women work alongside men in the police force all over the world; why should this be any different in Pakistan?" questions Inspector Waseem Durrani, who is the chief law instructor in the Chung Police Training School. Inspector Durrani is of the view that in order to encourage democracy and gender sensitivity within society, more women must be integrated into the police force; whether it is traffic, operations or investigations. This democratic recruitment of more women and

ISLAMABAD - The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed the Punjab government to withdraw all shoulder promotions given in the police department and observed that there was no concept of such promotions in the law and police rules. The court said the mechanism was an invention of politicians who used the process for political purposes. The bench of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed and Justice Asif Saeed Khan Khosa directed the government to abolish the policy of shoulder

KARACHI - Businessmen operating on Shahrah-e-Faisal are now being extorted by the bhatta mafia, who have replaced parchis with direct threats over cell phones to wring money out of corporate facilities. Many businessmen suspect that the Ferozabad police is abetting the bhatta mafia, as police vans stationed near offices take no action against the extortionists while officials at the station are reluctant to register FIRs. One such businessman is the owner of Overseas Employment

FAISALABAD - Police, on a tip off, raided a house and rescued a couple who had recently got married in a court and was illegally detained by the family of the bride. The rescued man, Omar Hayat, told Razaabad police that he married 'A' in a court against the wishes of the bride's family and when her maternal uncle Zahoor came to know about their secret marriage, he kidnapped them and detained them in a house. He further said the bride's family had hatched a conspiracy to kill them but

LAHORE - The Annual Police Inter-range Sports Championships will start from March 16, with judo competitions at different venues of the province. After the judo event, football, kabaddi (circle), wrestling, kabaddi (Asian), athletics, baseball, weightlifting, hockey, volleyball, basketball, handball, tug of war and bodybuilding contest will be played during the next two months.

ALGIERS - Algerian police and pro-government activists on Saturday foiled a sixth attempt by opposition protesters to march in the capital Algiers. A faction of the National Coordination for Change and Democracy (CNCD) had called the protest for 11:00 am (1000 GMT) in defiance of an official ban on demonstrating in Algiers. But several dozen demonstrators found themselves quickly surrounded by police. Counter-demonstrators carrying photos of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika chanted

ISLAMABAD - The Islamabad Police on Friday approached Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of late Salmaan Taseer, to grill him over the murder of Federal Minister for Minorities Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti. With the special permission of anti-terrorism court's judge Rana Nasir Ahmed, the police team probing into the killing of Bhatti visited the Adiala Jail where they interrogated Qadri for hours. However, no significant development was reported, a source said. The police sources said Qadri told

LAHORE - CIA Police City Division Lahore have arrested Ghulam Mohay Uddin, a companion of Mobeen Butt, one of the top ten proclaimed offenders, involved in murder, attempted murder, extortion and robbery cases. According to a handout issued on Friday, the arrested man has confessed to 13 cases of murder, attempted murder, extortion, dacoity, robbery and street crimes during the preliminary interrogation. On the orders of Capital City Police Officer Muhammad Aslam Tareen, Investigation

LAHORE - Lahore Police began formally investigating the incident of young stowaway Qasim Siddique and his missing classmate Ali Jamshed, sources told Pakistan Today on Thursday. Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO Aslam Tarin, Investigations Senior Superintended of Police (SSP) Abul Razzaq Cheema and Cantt Division Investigations Superintended of Police (SP) Amin Bukhari visited Allama Iqbal International Airport and inspected the runway and its surrounding areas, sources