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LAHORE - Investigation agencies find themselves in a difficult position, as they probe into the killing of parents of Supreme Court (SC) Justice Javed Iqbal, Pakistan Today has learnt. Police think that fingerprints collected from the telephone used by the murdered couple might lead to a breakthrough in the murder case. Lahore Police sources told Pakistan Today that investigators have grilled 11 persons including four women and two watchmen but have made no progress so far. According

LAHORE - Lahore Police on Wednesday initiated an inquiry in the murder case of Supreme Court Justice Javed Iqbal's parents. Investigators have collected blood samples for DNA test and finger prints of the three ladies and two security guards, whom the police had taken into custody for interrogation, to match with the samples of Justice Iqbal's parents to find the killers.
The police officials have decided to collect blood samples and finger prints of all the guests who visited

LAHORE - The Punjab Police faces difficulties in investigation, screening equipments and locating suspects, Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah told the Punjab Assembly (PA) on Tuesday. Sanaullah admitted that police did not have facility of phone locator, as this equipment is only being used by intelligence agencies. The law minister said that the Punjab government had demanded the federal government to provide locators nothing has been done in this regard.
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LAHORE - Two dead bodies were in Ghari Shahu and Faisal Town area of Lahore on Monday. According to details, people in Garhi Shahu informed the police that a man was lying unmoved on the road, upon reaching police found the man was dead. Police made the announcement about the body in various mosques of the area but no one came to identify the body.
The body was shifted to the morgue for an autopsy. Police speculated that the man was died due to cold because he was wearing no

KABUL - A foreign force air raid in central Afghanistan may have killed three Afghan police and wounded three, the NATO-led force said on Monday, the third such incident in more than a month.
Civilian casualties and the mistaken killing of members of the Afghan security forces have been a frequent source of friction between President Hamid Karzai's government and Western military forces in a war now in its 10th year. In southern Kandahar's Spin Boldak town - scene of the

LAHORE - An unidentified 40-year-old man's decomposed body was found from the Choong Police Station precincts on Sunday. It is suspected that unidentified kidnappers abducted the man and escaped after throwing his body in the Choong Police Station precincts.
According to police, Choong local residents spotted the deceased's body lying along the Kinar Bund Road and informed police, which reached the spot and shifted the body to the morgue with the Edhi Foundation's help. According

KARACHI - Despite the increasing crime rate in Karachi, the city police are not lodging first information reports (FIRs) and people affected by street crimes are also reluctant to register cases due to the indifferent behaviour of the law enforcers.
According to analysts, the major impediment to the registration of cases is the prevalence of the 'thana culture' at most police stations in the city as no police chief has been able to eradicate it.
Even the Police Order 2002,

LAHORE - National Highways and Motorway Police (NH&MP) N-5 Central on Thursday claimed to have arrested 13 people involved in different criminal activities and have seized liquor, cash, vehicles, arms and ammunition and Pakistan Railway's eclectic wire.
NH&MP also helped three children; Arsalan, Jahangir and Sadia, to reunite with their aggrieved families in different events in last few days. NH&MP arrested 13 criminals including Javed, M Taj, Ulfat, Muhammed Akram, Ibrar Saleem,

PESHAWAR - Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa police inspector general announced postings and transfers of six high ranking police officers on Wednesday.
According to an official notification, Mubarak Zeb was posted as district police officer (DPO) replacing Dilawar Bangash while Bangash was transferred and posted as DPO in Dera Ismael Khan.
Dera Ismael Khan DPO Gul Afzal Khan was transferred and posted as senior superintendent coordination in Peshawar while Nowshehra DPO Nisar Tanoli was

ISLAMABAD - Interior Affairs Minister Rehman Malik has said that the Punjab Police was responsible to provide security to Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer and it (police) would be questioned about the security lapse.
Talking to reporters, Rehman said that Mumtaz Hussain Qadri, who joined the security squad (of the governor) from Rawalpindi, has been arrested on basis of his confession that he killed Salmaan Taseer because he had declared the blasphemy law a 'black law.'