Tag: Police

Lahore - Mujahid Squad Police on Thursday held a Quran Khawani in the memory of Mujahid Squad and Elite Force martyrs who embraced martyrdom while encountering terrorists attacking Sri Lankan cricket team on March 03, 2009. Superintendent of Police (SP) Mobiles Muntazir Mehdi and dozens of officials from Mujahid Squad and Elite Force were present on this occasion.
Participants recited Quran and prayed for the martyrs including head constable Faisal Rasheed and constables

ISLAMABAD - The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Monday referred five cases of lawmakers holding fake degrees to police for registration of criminal cases against the parliamentarians. An ECP official said Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Hamid Ali Mirza referred the cases to the district police officers (DPOs) concerned. He said the CEC directed police to register criminal cases against the accused lawmakers for their involvement in corrupt practices.

LAHORE - The Federal Investigation Agency's (FIA) and Lahore Police's proposed crackdown against gambling has yet to show any result, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The Lahore Police has made some progress, as it arrested around three dozen gamblers and bookies who were making the most of the ongoing World Cup. According to details, as soon as the mega event began on February 19, gamblers and bookies prepared themselves for earning huge money from the sporting festival. Gamblers, who

LAHORE - Anti Vehicles Lifting Staff (AVLS) Iqbal Town Division Lahore arrested two car lifters of Mumtaz alias Arshad Car lifter gang including its ringleader on Monday and recovered 17 cars and two motorcycles worth Rs 7700,000. Iqbal Town AVLS police team collected Mumtaz alias Arshad gang's particulars and arrested its two members including the ringleader. The accused were identified as ringleader Muhammad Mumtaz alias Arshad and Muhammad Ehsan.
Police said that the accused

SOHAR - Fresh clashes erupted between Omani police and protesters on Monday, a day after police killed at least one as the turmoil rocking the Arab world reached the normally calm Gulf sultanate. Hundreds of demonstrators stormed a police station in the key industrial area of Sohar, northwest of the capital Muscat, and police responded by firing tear gas.
There were no immediate reports of casualties in the clashes that broke out near Earth Roundabout, a key intersection on the

PESHAWAR - Pakistani police Sunday said they were investigating an American national said to have been working for a private security company, after he outstayed his Pakistani visa. The US embassy in Islamabad has identified the man arrested Friday as Aaron Mark DeHaven and a Pakistani court Saturday remanded him in custody for 14 days.
Relations between Pakistan and the United States have been deeply strained over the arrest last month of a CIA contractor identified as Raymond

BEIJING/SHANGHAI - An online call for anti-government protests across China on Sunday instead brought an emphatic show of force by police determined to deter any buds of the kind of unrest that has shaken the Middle East.
Lines of police checked passers-by and warned away foreign photo journalists in downtown Beijing and Shanghai after a US-based Chinese website spread calls for Chinese people to emulate the "Jasmine Revolution" sweeping the Middle East and stage gatherings in

LAHORE - The City Traffic Police have constituted five special squads on Emergency Police 15's pattern to curb wheelies across the city. Capital City Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) SSP Syed Ahmed Mobin directed the divisional superintendents to supervise these squads and ensure implementation of
fresh directives.
In an official communique issued on Saturday, the CTO also directed the senior traffic wardens to completely swipe the practice by launching a crackdown against the

Lahore - The City Traffic Police on Friday launched its official website to facilitate citizens, who can now access the website (www.ctplahore.gop.pk). Lahore Chief Traffic Officer (CTO) Syed Ahmad Mobin said that the citizens could get information about traffic rules and regulation, traffic sectors, details of the banks where fines could be paid and other details on the website.
Mobin said that it was very important for motorists to go through basic traffic rules to avoid

KARACHI - The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Thursday maintained the stay order against alleged political appointments in the Karachi police until March 8.
An SHC division bench, comprising Justices Maqbool Baqir and Shahid Anwer Bajwa, also directed Sindh Advocate General Fatah Malak to produce the complete record of the written and verbal tests.
On February 1, the SHC had restricted the Sindh government from appointing constables in the Karachi police who were allegedly

GUJRANWALA - Regional Police Officer (RPO) Ahmad Raza Tahir has vowed to change traditional police culture, announcing a five-point agenda to maintain and improve the law and order situation in the region. While addressing a press conference at his office the other day, he ordered all the SHOs to dispose of all bogus cases to reduce unnecessary burden on the department within 15 days.
The media will be considered a team member to control crimes as well as to get actual report of

Lahore - The Lahore High Court on Wednesday ordered Johar Town police to register a case and arrest seven people who kidnapped and gang raped a girl for 22 days. Justice Saghir Qadri ordered police to get the girl medically examined and register a case against Mahi, Kurshid and others. In pursuance of the court orders, police produced the 20-year-old girl in the court who stated that the accused tortured and raped her. The court passed this order on the petition of Javed who through

ATHENS - Greek police clashed with protesters on Wednesday as around 100,000 workers, pensioners and students marched to parliament in protest at austerity policies aimed at helping Greece cope with a huge debt crisis. Riot police fired scores of rounds of teargas and flash bombs at protesters hurling petrol bombs, choking the main Syndagma square with smoke and sending crowds of striking protesters running for cover.
Public and private sector employees' 24-hour strike grounded

LAHORE - A consultation workshop to develop a gender strategy for police organizations in the country was held on Tuesday at the Avari Hotel with the involvement of senior management officials in the Punjab Police.
Approximately 30 police officers participated from all parts of Punjab of which 13 were women.
The consultation was facilitated by the Gender Responsive Policing Project (GRPP) - a joint venture of the National Police Bureau (NPB) and German Agency for

LAHORE - The US Consulate Lahore on Tuesday again refused to handover to the investigation team the officials and the vehicle that ran over and killed a Pakistani youth to death in the Raymond Davis shooting incident. US consulate officials even denied entry to the investigation team into the consulate's premises.
It was learnt that the Lahore Police's investigation team, headed by Civil Lines SP Investigation Ali Malik, and Lytton Raod DSP Liquat Safdar visited the US Consulate

TOBA TEK SINGH - A court bailiff raided Sadar Police Station and recovered one Rehmat Ali who had been arrested without any case registered against him. Advocate Abdur Rehman Dogar told reporters that on his petition District and Sessions Judge Muhammad Azhar Chaudhry released Rehmat Ali and also ordered the Sadar police to register a case against its SHO Shahid Abbas and Sub Inspector Muhammad Akram on the charge of illegal detention of Rehmat Ali.
STORE BURGLED: Thieves took

MOGADISHU - A suicide car bomb ripped through a police base in Mogadishu on Monday, killing nine people after a weekend of bloody fighting between pro-government forces and Al Qaeda-inspired insurgents. According to police sources, at least nine people were killed when the explosives-laden vehicle blew up at the Darwish camp, a site used by a police unit and adjacent to a police academy.
One police officer confirmed that at least six policemen were killed when the blast went off,