Tag: Police

FAISALABAD - The city traffic police in coordination with Honda Atlas Company started a traffic awareness programme titled 'Roshan Punjab campaign' for motor cyclists. The safety campaign was started to convey a message to motorcyclists that they should not risk their life or the life of others by riding a motorcycle with faulty lights at night.
The campaign sponsored by Honda Atlas offered motorcyclists to bring their motorcycles with faulty lights at the Honda camp at

LAHORE - Saima, 24, says that she is not one of those people who would opt to go to a police station to report a crime. "Muggings are increasing in Lahore it seems, because I keep hearing of near relatives and friends who have been affected in various areas by this. But if for instance it ever happened to me, I would probably not report it myself. I would send my brother," she says.
This is not just one woman's sentiment. It is reflected in many women of all ages and the general

CAIRO - Police were back on the streets of the Egyptian capital on Monday, smiling at motorists and sticking close to each other, a stone's throw away from burned-out shells of their police vans. Their two-day vanishing act remains unexplained officially, but it left the city prey to looters and jail-breakers, as residents formed self-defence groups to protecting their patches.
The authorities announced on Sunday night that the men in berets and black pullovers would be

KARACHI - Over 1700 police personnel and officers were illegally promoted during the last 15 years in violation of all rules and regulations. Sources said that a severe divide exists within the Sindh police because these illegal promotions have allowed some officers to monopolize the institution.
On the other hand, many officers despite serving 25 years in the police are working as junior officers under the officer appointed in the last decade. Many officers and personnel got

LAHORE - US Consulate official Raymond Davis, who shot dead two Pakistani youths on Thursday, was handed over to the police on six-day remand on Friday. The police however has failed to arrest the other men so far - those in the SUV following Davis - accused of running over a motorcyclist while trying to rescue their colleague.
During the hearing in the court of Cantonment Judicial Magistrate Zafar Iqbal, Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar Ahmad said the police had to question

LAHORE - An additional district and sessions judge on Thursday directed the police to register a case against PMLN MPA Saif-u-Malook Khokhar on giving a bogus cheque for Rs 20.5 million. The court issued the order on an application filed by a woman, Salamat.
She said that she sold 94.18 kanals of land to Malook who delivered her a cheque for Rs 20.5 million in payment, which was dishonored. She requested the court to pass an order for registration of an FIR against the MPA.

FAISALABAD - A long-running family vendetta took one life when attackers came in the uniform of Elite Force and shot dead a 22-year-old married woman in her house. Reportedly, a group of men wearing police uniform shot down Saima Sahi of Chak No 186 RB Dhilam near Chak Jhumra, in her house and escaped. The victim family had an old enmity with another group of the area and several men from both the sides have been murdered in the blood feud.
The victim Saima Sahi's two brothers

CAIRO - Hundreds of Egyptian demonstrators calling for economic and political reforms broke through police barriers on Tuesday and began marching in Cairo's streets, in a protest inspired by Tunisia's uprising. Protesters gathered outside the Supreme Court in downtown Cairo and held large signs that read "Tunisia is the solution" amid massive police deployment, an AFP correspondent said.
Chanting "Down with Mubarak" --in reference to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who has been

LAHORE - Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen confirmed that the blast in a mourning procession near its concluding point at the Karbla Gamay Shah was suicidal in nature.
Talking to reporters at the blast site, he said that the suicide attacker was aged between 13 to 14 years, adding police were searching the child bomber when he blew him up. The police also arrested a suspected man from the blast site, the CCPO said.
The TV channel reported that the blast

LAHORE - Members of the provincial assembly (MPA) on Monday condemned police torture of a journalist's son and demanded prompt action over the issue while journalists protesting against the incident staged a walkout from the Punjab Assembly (PA) Press Gallery.
MPAs criticised police for torturing journalists, doctors, teachers and students and termed manhandling of Hassan Iftikhar, son of noted journalist Iftikhar Ahmed, at the Lahore airport as condemnable. They said that the

ISLAMABAD - Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Saturday said the Sindh Rangers and Sindh Police had been vested with powers to take action against law breakers.
"The recent action in Orangi Town in Karachi was a law-enforcement measure in the same context. It was directed against anti-social elements and land grabbers. No operation, as has been claimed in some sections of the press, has been launched in Karachi," Malik said.
According to a press release, the law-enforcement

LAHORE - Lahore Traffic Police has launched a special campaign against the one-wheelers and the Chief Traffic Officer Ahmed Mobin on Saturday directed the deputy superintendents of police to take stern action against the violators.
Mobin informed officers that vigilant traffic wardens have been deployed on Jail Road, Main Boulevard, Ferozepur Road and Canal Road to control one-wheeling. Chairing the meeting with officers including Cantonment, Ring Road, Gulberg and Defense DSPs,

LAHORE - At a protest, Kahna Nou police arrested Ali Ahmad with 110 grams of Charas, while his companion escaped after throwing 1.5 kg of Charas. Ahmad pointed out that his name was Muhammad Rafique and he was a resident of Ameen Park, Band Road. Police produced Rafique before the magistrate and sought his physical remand of five days to recover Charas from him.
The court refused to grant the remand as the police had already recovered the Charas. Later, Rafique was declared

ALGIERS - Riot police clashed with protesters in the Algerian capital on Saturday as they broke up a banned pro-democracy rally amid mounting public greivances that have fuelled fears of Tunisia-style unrest.
At least six protesters were injured as riot police used batons to break up the demonstration, making several arrests, according to the opposition party which organised the rally in defiance of a government ban.
"There are several injured... and numerous arrests," Said

QUETTA - Quetta police has recovered an eight-year-old boy who was kidnapped for ransom from Quetta two weeks ago. District Inspector General (DIG) Wazir Khan Nasar said this while addressing a press conference at his office on Friday.
He added that unidentified people kidnapped Faisal from Sariab on January 12 and demanded Rs 5 million as ransom from his family. He said a joint team of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) senior superintendent of police (SSP) and deputy

Karachi - The National Police Bureau and GIZ (German agency for international cooperation) organised a workshop to highlight issues faced by women within the Police Department, ranging from recruitment to retention and training to promotion, at a hotel in Karachi. Police officers, including women, participated in the conference in which, considering the increased demand of men officers for security duties, active involvement of women in police was emphasised. Speakers at the

KARACHI - "Sorry, we can't trust the police," an employee of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) bluntly told a high-ranking police officer when asked to evacuate the power utility's head office.
Most employees who braved the mob attack were reluctant to hand over control for fear of further damage or theft by police officers.
"Where were you when the mob attacked our head office," he said, rebuking a high-ranking police officer for acting as a bystander during the