Tag: Police

ISLAMABAD - Over 2,400 cases of different natures have neither been investigated by the capital police nor have the criminals been arrested, prompting fears that this could result in an increase in crimes.
Of 2,407 pending cases, 397 cases are pending with Margalla Police Station, 340 with Kohsar, 319 with Shalimar, 271 with Aabpara, 208 Shehzad Town, 128 with Bara Kahu, 171 with Industrial Area, 165 with Sabzi Mandi, 101 with Ternol, 99 with Koral, 68 with Sihala, 60 with

LAHORE - Accountability should be ensured to eradicate corruption in the police department so that speedy justice could be provided to the public and the force's image improved, Punjab Police Inspector General Javed Iqbal said on Sunday during a briefing by Multan Regional Police Officer Mubarak Ali Athar.
The IGP stressed upon the need for revolutionary measures for a change in "thana culture". There is a dire need of establishing friendly terms between police and the public,

KARACHI - Enraged protesters took to the streets and scuffled with police in Godhra Colony, New Karachi on Saturday to protest the murder of a prayer leader of the area. Adnan Qadri, the prayer leader at Rabbani Masjid in New Karachi, Sector 11-E, was gunned down by two unidentified men on a motorcycle on Friday night.
Qadri was believed to be an activist of the banned outfit Jamaatud Dawa. Following Qadri's death, many people in Godhra Colony started firing in the air to protest

MANAMA - Bahraini riot police retreated from Pearl Square on Saturday and thousands of anti-government protesters streamed back into their former stronghold in Manama. Crowds had approached Pearl Square from different directions. They stood facing riot police for half an hour. All of a sudden police ran to their buses and retreated. The protesters, cheering and waving flags, ran to the centre of the traffic circle, reoccupying it even before all the police had left. The crowd waved

ALGIERS - Algerian police in riot gear on Saturday surrounded about 500 protesters trying to stage a march through the capital inspired by uprisings in other parts of the Arab world in defiance of a ban. A Reuters reporter at the scene said a group chanting "Algeria - free and democratic!" tried to reach May 1 Square in the city centre to begin the protest march but were driven two blocks away by police using batons.
They were then corralled into the courtyard of a residential

DASKA - Sambrial patrolling police seized a heavy quantity of liquor from a car in the jurisdiction of Bagowala Police Station. Reportedly, the police were tipped off that two people were taking a heavy quantity of liquor to Sialkot in a car. The police signaled them to stop but the accused ran away leaving 193 bottle of liquor on the spot.
C&W seeks early construction of roads: Provincial Communication and Works (C&W) Secretary Azam Salman took strict notice of the slow pace of

PESHAWAR - After terminating contractual officers on the orders of Supreme Court, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government will now have to deal with senior police officers who have decided to approach apex court over its decision to post junior officers on senior positions.
From DIG to SHO level, important slots are occupied by the corps while Senior PSP officers have been made officers on Special Duty (OSD), sources informed the Pakistan Today. DSP's (BS 17) are heading the

FAISALABAD - An old problem with the rules and regulations is that they are always framed in good faith but it is their out-of-context implementation that reverses the very logic behind them, producing chaotic results.
The much-publicised weekly holiday for Punjab police announced by Inspector General Punjab Police Javed Iqbal, soon after taking the charge of his office, turned out to be a useless exercise as a majority of police personnel think they are better off without

KARACHI - Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Tuesday directed the Traffic Police Department to ensure smooth traffic flow in the metropolis. The directive was issued to the Karachi DIG Traffic after frequent news reports of traffic jams in the city during the past 10 days.
A Home Department spokesman stated that the minister had asked the DIG to raise the issue seriously with the Traffic Engineering Department and other officials related while preparing a working paper to

LAHORE - The Lahore Police have taken measures to ensure foolproof security on the Eid Miladun Nabi to avoid any untoward incident in the provincial metropolis. Police have deployed around 1,000 policemen to perform duty on routes of processions, at and around sensitive and important installations while 1,600 Mujahid Squad officials and 25 Elite Force vehicles will patrol the streets.
The City Traffic Police have also chalked out a traffic plan and deployed around 500 traffic

TEHRAN - Iran Monday blocked access to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi's house to prevent him attending a rally in support of Arab revolts and also deployed anti-riot police in parts of Tehran, reports said.
Witnesses said anti-riot police on motorbikes armed with riot shotguns, tear gas, batons, paintball guns and fire extinguishers were deployed in parts of the capital to prevent gatherings which could turn into anti-government demonstrations. Police blocked access to the

SANAA - Anti-government protesters clashed with police blocking them from marching to Yemen's presidential palace in Sanaa on Sunday, witnesses said. The clashes occurred while President Ali Abdullah Saleh and the main opposition group were preparing for talks that the government hoped would help avert an Egyptian-style revolt in the Arabian Peninsula state.
"The Yemeni people want the fall of the regime," protesters shouted during the demonstration attended by about 1,000

DHAKA - Hundreds of Bangladeshi small investors, angry at a new plunge in share prices, set fire to tyres and pelted police with bricks on Sunday outside the stock exchange and demanded the resignation of the finance minister.
Police with batons dispersed the protesters in pitched battles that snarled traffic for hours. The country's main Dhaka Stock Exchange General Index dived by more than 474.77 points or 7.27 percent to 6052.41 on Sunday, the steepest one-day fall since

KHARTOUM - A group of women demonstrated in the Sudanese capital on Sunday to demand the release of dozens of protesters arrested last month, as three journalists were detained in a separate rally. Around 25 women, among them mothers of those still in custody since anti-government protests on January 30, stood waiting for hours outside the National Intelligence and Security Services (NISS) building.
Anti-riot police outnumbered the women, who carried pictures of their loved ones,

ALGIERS - Up to 2,000 Algerian demonstrators briefly forced a police cordon Saturday as they tried to begin a banned march calling for regime change a day after the fall of Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak. Protestors, put at 800 by police but estimated at 2,000 by journalists at the scene, found themselves blocked again by security forces, who had encircled the area, backed up by armoured vehicles.
There were scuffles with security forces and numerous arrests well before the

KANDAHAR - Fifteen police and an intelligence agent were killed Saturday in a string of devastating attacks in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar which were claimed by the Taliban. The attacks, which played out over several hours and left 45 people injured, involved several suicide bombers armed with guns and grenades firing on the main police headquarters after occupying a wedding hall opposite.
Three car bombs were also detonated near the police office and a further three

GUJRANWALA: Gujranwala Corps Commander Lt-Gen Raheel Sharif has emphasised the importance of specialised training to combat the menace of terrorism. He stated this while addressing a passing-out parade of 6th batch of the 98 Punjab police personnel who were imparted anti-terrorism training by Pakistan Army at Sialkot Cantt. According to an ISPR handout, the corps commander was confident of the capabilities of the trained personnel and hoped the special anti-terrorism training imparted