Tag: Police

ISLAMABAD: Having learnt about the lukewarm response of police towards the accused of conducting a drag race that killed five and injured two people, the Supreme Court (SC) on Monday directed the Punjab police chief to arrest them all four accused and report in court today (Tuesday).
A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday noted that "prima facie it indicates that without

LAHORE: Lahore police has showed no compliance to 1200 orders passed by different session courts during the last one year regarding registration of contempt of court cases against several police officials on the charges of disobeying court orders.
Despite implementation of the Police Order 2000, as many as 76 police stations and their respective SHOs in Lahore are not ready to implement court orders properly. They are found using delaying tactics in providing justice to the

LAHORE: Injustice against teachers would not be tolerated and the Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) would table a bill on the board of governors (BoG) issue and police torture of teachers and students in the Senate, PML-Q President Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said on Monday. He made these remarks while talking to journalists after meeting a delegation of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of teachers and students. He said that the Punjab government had no respect for the teaching

LAHORE: Lahore High Court (LHC) Chief Justice (CJ) Ijaz Ahmed Chaudhry on Monday ordered registering a first information report (FIR) against the policemen who manhandled teachers and students protesting against establishing board of governors (BoG) in public-sector colleges in front of the Punjab Assembly.
The LHC CJ issued the order after seeing picture of a policeman beating a bleeding teacher lying down on the road. The court also allowed owner of a private bus burnt by

LONDON: British police were searching a house in southern England as part of an investigation into bombings in a busy shopping district of the Swedish capital on Saturday.
Police said on Monday they had begun examining a terraced house in the town of Luton, Bedfordshire, on Sunday night under the terrorism act.
"No arrests have been made and no hazardous materials found," police said in a statement. The property has been cordoned off. Britain's interior ministry said it

KARACHI: The Sindh government has chalked out a foolproof security plan to combat possible threats during Muharram, Adviser to Sindh Chief Minister on Information & Archives Sharmila Farooqi said on Sunday.
Farooqi mentioned suicide attacks, vehicular bombing, remote-controlled bombing, roadside bombing, planting homemade explosive devices, snipers, rocket and grenade attacks, landmines, mortar fire, poisoning food supplies and water reservoirs, stampede by anti-social elements,

OKARA: Okara police have registered cases against two men for giving bogus cheques. Mehboob Ahmad son of Karam Illahi gave Rs 2000,000 cheque to Zulfiquar son of Fateh Muhammad, a resident of Chak No.54/2L. In another instance, Zulfiquar son of Saeed Muhammad gave Rs 3000,000 cheque to Muhammad Zafar son of Muhammad Sharif, a Depalpur resident.
17-year-old girl abducted: Four armed men abducted a 17-year-old young girl on gunpoint. Fauzia Bibi daughter of Muhammad Zubair, a

LAHORE: Shafiqabad Investigation Police has taken bribe from a helpless family to draft the scene of murder of the family's only bread winner, who was allegedly shot dead in public by his brother in law on September 26, Pakistan Today has learnt.
The family, which includes three blind brothers who are all hafiz-e-Quran, has been left stranded and unable to pursue the murder case of Sharifullah, 26, resident of Khokhar Town on Bund Road. The deceased was running a PCO shop to earn

ISLAMABAD: The country's political parties, police, and parliament have emerged as the top three most corrupt institutions, with the judiciary showing improvement in curbing the menace of corruption, said the 2010 Global Corruption Barometer, a worldwide public opinion survey on corruption released on the International Anti-Corruption Day (Thursday) by Transparency International
The report said that 77 percent of the people believed that corruption in the country had increased

GARDEZ: Unidentified gunmen kidnapped 18 Afghan deminers on Thursday in southeastern Khost province, the provincial police chief said, the second abduction of a mine clearing team this month.
The group from the Kabul-based Mine Detection Centre were travelling in Musa Khel district when they were stopped by a group of gunmen and then seized, said Abdul Hakim Ishaqzai. "They had gone to the area on the request of the elders to clear mines from their village," Ishaqzai told

OKARA: District Police Officer (DPO) Azeem Arshad Gujjar and SP Investigations have deployed police jawans for 608 majlises during Muharram.
The officers armed with modern equipments, it has been reported, are trained to provide for 502 majlises for male and 106 for females, the district police officer said.
He called upon the religious scholars to maintain peaceful content in their sermons. The Vigilance Squad of the District Peace Committee, comprising of 16 members, along

LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly courtyard turned into a battlefield on Wednesday when students from various government educational institutions trespassed four security barricades in an attempt to enter assembly premises and even tried pulling down the main door of the Punjab Assembly.
The students, led by the Joint Action Committee of Punjab Professors and Lecturers Association (PPLA), were protesting against the privatisation of public schools and colleges outside the Punjab

DHAKA: Two passenger trains collided at a busy station just outside the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka on Wednesday, killing at least four people and injuring scores, local officials told AFP.
One train was stopped at the station when the second one ploughed into it from behind, leaving passenger carriages mangled and stacked on top of each other.
Television footage showed workers at the scene trying to rescue people from inside the coaches, as large crowds milled around the

LAHORE: Lahore High Court Chief Justice Khawaja Muhammad Sharif disposed of a suo motu proceeding on the death of an eunuch, Amir, allegedly shot by Allama Iqbal Town police. SSP (investigation) Zulfiqar Hameed on Monday informed that Allama Iqbal Town police had arrested eunuch Amir and was taking him to the police station when he jumped from van. Upon jumping he sustained serious injuries and died.
Hameed admitted 'criminal negligence' on the part of police and confirmed that

ATHENS: Greek police fired teargas at stone-throwing youths marching in Athens to mark the anniversary of the police killing of a 15-year-old, which had triggered the country's worst riots in decades in 2008.
About 3,000 mostly hooded youths marched through central Athens, with a few hundred throwing stones, sticks, oranges and bottles at police. Some smashed bus stops and shop windows.
"Protesters threw three petrol bombs," said a police official who declined to be named.

RAWALPINDI: An Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) on Saturday issued arrest warrants for Rawal Town Superintendent of Police Khurram Shahzad and former Rawalpindi city police officer (CPO) Saud Aziz in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.
ATC Judge Rana Nisar Ahmad Khan issued non-bailable arrest warrants for Shahzad and Aziz under sections 119, 109 and 20 for negligence and misappropriations in evidences required for investigations. The judge said both police officials
and other five

LAHORE: Defence Police have not been able to trace the robbers involved in stealing valuables worth Rs 2.5 million from Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Member of the National Assembly (MNA) Khawaja Asif's house in Defence Housing Authority (B) Police Station precincts, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Police have registered a case on the complaint of Asif's son Khawaja Asad. According to the first information report (FIR) registered with the Defense B Police, Khawaja Asad, a