Tag: Police

LAHORE: Lahore Police chief Aslam Tareen said on Friday Raymond Davis did not act in self defence and killed the two Pakistani youths in cold blood. Addressing a press conference at his office, Tareen said Davis carried out an intentional and cold-blooded murder, adding that the investigation was carried out on merit, which led the police to the conclusion that Davis was guilty as charged. The CCPO said police had submitted a provisional challan, requesting the court to take action

KARACHI - Two alleged bandits were killed and another injured in Mianwali Colony, Orangi Town on Thursday, as witnesses claimed that an enraged mob killed the two men, contradicting the police's version that they were killed in an encounter. Witnesses said that three men tried to loot a shop in the area, however, the locals gathered at the spot.
The three alleged bandits tried to escape from the spot by firing at the crowd, but some unidentified person from the mob opened fire at

GUJRANWALA - Three low intensity bomb explosions rocked Gujranwala on Wednesday, with the targets being a police station, an office of a senior police official and the police barracks. The first bomb targeted the office of the Central Investigation Agency followed by one targeting the office of the regional police officer shortly before 7am.
The blasts damaged outer walls and created craters. The third blast, which was comparatively of greater intensity, rocked the residence of

LAHORE - Under the directions of Adviser to Punjab University (PU) Vice Chancellor Col (r) Ikram Ullah and PU Chief Security Officer (CSO) Major Arif, the varsity's security guards with the help of the Punjab Police roughed up students, both male and female, on Wednesday.
FEMALES TORTURED: Female students were seen crying and invoking Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and Chief Justice Lahore High Court, demanding PU VC Prof Dr Mujahid Kamran and Ikram Ullah's termination,

JAKARTA - Indonesian police stood guard outside churches on Wednesday after a wave of religious hate crimes swept the mainly Muslim country, shocking civil society and sparking international concern. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who has been criticised for failing to stem the violence, ordered the police and military to go "all-out" against extremist groups behind the unrest.
"Every person should be guaranteed protection and safety, whatever his faith, ethnicity, race,

LAHORE - Despite recent government notification, Police Department has "closed eyes" to sale of Sheesha and other smoking products in all major restaurants and cafes. The Punjab government promulgated Prohibition of Smoking and Protection of Non-Smokers' Health Ordinance in 2002 to ban smoking in public places.
However, the ordinance remained dormant and sale of smoking products including Sheesha remained unchecked. Recently Home Department issued another notification to Police

ISLAMABAD - The ineptness and lack of vision of the government is evident from the fact that Rs 500 million has gone down the drain as costly mobile scanners bought by the Interior Ministry have been rusting at Islamabad Police Lines for the last ten months.
A source in the ministry told Pakistan Today that due to Finance Ministry's refusal to release funds for the fuel of mobile scanners imported from China a year ago for installation at capital's entry points, the security

KARACHI - Two bomb explosions on the premises of two police stations in Karachi on Monday morning jolted sleeping cops. The blasts were declared by the Crime Investigation Department (CID) in their initial investigations as planted and operated with a time device. At least two people sustained injurie.
The first explosion took place in the backyard of Eidgah police station at 9.03 am. Five minutes later, cops who were still asleep at Shah Latif Town police station, were woken up

LAHORE - More than 300 men, women and children of Shadewal village staged a protest against Sattukatla police and kept the Shaukat Khanum Chowk blocked for more that three hours on Monday. The protestors carried placards and banners and chanted slogans against Sattukatla police.
They said they were protesting against police brutality wherein the Sattukatla police killed a 22-year-old boy in an alleged encounter late on Sunday. They said one Muhammad Ramzan was shot dead by police

LAHORE - Security forces remained on high alert during rallies organized by different political and religious parties on Kashmir day with the day passing by smoothly. Elite force personnel patrolled the rally's main routes with security beefed across the city to monitor suspicious movement.
The seven entry and exit pints of the city were closely monitored. Around 1000 security personnel were deputed on the main routes of the rallies arranged by the Jamat e Islami and banned

LAHORE - The police investigators on the orders of Lahore High Court kept recording the statements of eyewitnesses in the Lahore shootings case. Two people were reportedly killed by a US national Raymond Davis while another man was crushed to death by a vehicle coming for Davis' rescue.
Pakistan Today learnt on Friday that the investigators have collected valuable evidence against Raymond Davis. The investigators have recorded statement of a local restaurant owner and an eleven

GUJRANWALA - City Police Officer (CPO) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar has said that infrastructural improvement is inevitable in the department and Crime Investigation Agency (CIA), Crime Record Office (CRO) and Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) will be reorganised for better performance.
He claimed to have eradicated lawlessness in the district and said no violator of the law would be spared. Talking to journalists, he said no society could progress without the coordination of five

ADEN - Police fired tear gas and live ammunition on Thursday to break up an anti-government protest in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, leaving two people injured, witnesses said. The police, who deployed in large numbers earlier in the morning, were seen by an AFP correspondent dispersing the protesters as they began to march in the Crater district of the city.
The demonstration - part of a "day of rage" in Yemen - had been called by Common Forum, an opposition coalition,

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

WAZIRABAD - In the court of Section 30 Magistrate Ijaz Ahmad Gondal, an accused, Sabir Bashir Proya of Kot Proya Wazirabad, was killed in the custody of policemen. The accused was brought from Gujranwala jail to Wazirabad city courts. All of a sudden, Ali Asghar, a resident of Sadiq Park Gujranwala, fired on Sabir Bashir, killing him instantly.
The policemen deployed at the barrier arrested the escaping killer and Wazirabad deputy superintendent of police and other policemen

LAHORE - Dozens of annoyed protestors broke into a North Cantonment police station on Wednesday and held hostage the police officers for several hours. Police officers, requesting not to be named, said the protestors of Sunni Tehreek had staged a protest demonstration against the statements of Vatican Pope Benedict when police officers intercepted the demonstrators.
"An ambulance was stuck in the demonstration upon which we approached to rescue the ambulance. The Sunni Tehreek

LAHORE - After thoroughly examining circumstantial evidences and necessary details, the Lahore Police has reached the conclusion that Raymond Davis did not act in self defence and would therefore be charged with double murder. A senior police official investigating the case said on condition of anonymity that circumstantial evidences, witnesses and autopsy report did not support the statement by Davis, making the investigators believe that Davis had not killed the two youths, Faizan