Tag: Police

RIO DE JANEIRO: After days of preparation, Brazilian security forces on Sunday invaded and seized a slum where between 500 and 600 drug traffickers had been holed up and refused to surrender.
The success of the operation, launched earlier in the day, was announced by military police commander Mario Sergio Duarte. "We took control of all the points we needed to control," he said. "Our battalions have reached them all."
Duarte said the raid was supported by aircraft and was

RAWALPINDI: In a bid to stop a long march called by the Sunni Ittehad Council reroute to Data Darbar in Lahore, a heavy contingent of police ruthlessly baton charged and tear gased the participants in Sowan Bridge on Saturday, leaving dozens injured.
Police stopped the participants who took to the streets against the increasing Talibanisation across the country and against the expected change in the blasphemy law.
During the scuffle a number of activists and some police

LAHORE: Despite serious instructions of Lahore High Court (LHC), Township Police have been able to arrest those involved in the killing of three young men during a marriage ceremony on Oct 24, Pakistan Today learnt on Friday.
Investigation Police Township have only managed to arrest on of the nominated accused, whom was not a direct party to the incident. Eyewitnesses claim that on Oct 24, at the mehndi ceremony of Yousaf, Yousaf's close friend Malik Azam Khokher, brother of

ISLAMABAD: The law enforcement agencies on Friday foiled a major terrorist plot in the capital city by arresting two terrorists who were allegedly planning to attack important buildings, including the Parliament House.
The two suspected terrorists, Naeemullah Khan and Adnan Khan, were arrested in the Margalla police precincts. "They were planning to carry out a suicide attack on a mosque, Syedna Ali Masjid in Sector F-8/1, where foreigners and diplomats reside," Islamabad Deputy

CAIRO: One demonstrator was killed and dozens injured on Wednesday as Christian protesters clashed with Egyptian police over the denial of permission for a new church, a security official said.
The clashes came amid mounting sectarian tensions in the Arab world's most populous nation after Muslims set fire to homes owned by the family of a Christian man rumoured to have flirted with a Muslim girl in the south.
A security official told AFP that a young male demonstrator was

ISLAMABAD: Punjab Advocate General Khawaja Haris Ahmad on Wednesday informed the Supreme Court that police was neither in the control of provincial government nor did it act on its advice.
He appeared before a three-member SC bench, comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday, which was hearing a suo motu case pertaining to a clashes taken place between police and lawyers at Aiwan-e-Adl on Oct 1.
The court

RAIPUR: Indian armed forces said Tuesday they had killed 25 suspected Maoist guerrillas in the insurgency-riven central state of Chhattisgarh, while two policemen died in a separate land mine blast.
"At least 25 Maoists were killed at Jagargunda village in a fierce gun battle with security forces," the chief policeman in charge of anti-Maoist operations in Chhattisgarh, Ramniwas, who only uses one name, told AFP.
About 500 police and paramilitaries attacked up to 200

ISLAMABAD: A three-member Supreme Court bench on Tuesday summoned the Punjab inspector general (IG) of police to explain within a week why the court's earlier orders on the issue of police officers' promotion had not been implemented so far.
The bench consisting of Justice Javed Iqbal, Justice Jawwad S Khawaja and Justice Anwar Zaheer Jamali noted that its previous orders of October 28 pertaining to the submission of a comprehensive report over the promotion of each police

BANGKOK: The bodies of more than 100 human foetuses, apparently from an illegal abortion clinic, were discovered inside a Buddhist temple in central Bangkok, Thai police said on Tuesday.
The corpses, wrapped in plastic bags and newspaper, were found by a member of temple staff in a mortuary storage area.
"There are more than 100 plastic bags with foetal corpses inside hidden in the storehouse of a temple," said Police Colonel Metee Rakphan.
"We assume that they were

LAHORE: The law enforcement agencies have declared around 264 Eid prayer gatherings as sensitive, sources told Pakistan Today on Monday. Gatherings of the barelvi sect and several shrines have been marked as possible targets for terrorist attacks on Eidul Azha.
According to police sources, Lahoris would offer Eid prayers at around 3,394 places in different parts of the provincial metropolis. According to sources, Eid prayers would be offered in the open at 54 places including

LAHORE: Lahore Police has decided to continue with the strategy of deploying extra security personnel at sensitive places instead of adopting any scientific method to prevent terrorist attacks on Eidul Azha, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Around 10,000 policemen including Elite Force commandoes would be deployed to protect sensitive places including mosques, imambargahs, parks and bazaars. In order to chalk out a comprehensive security strategy for Eid, Lahore Police officials held a

LAHORE: Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) sleuths and police constables thrashed and detained journalists over a minor issue in front of the office of Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif in the Civil Lines Police precincts on Wednesday.
The journalists from print and electronic media staged a protest forcing the Civil Lines Police to register cases against the security personnel. The police later arrested four including Asim, Tanveer, Farooq, Baber of the Tipu Company after

QUETTA: Gunmen shot dead four policemen in an attack on their van in insurgency-hit southwest Pakistan, officials said.
The incident took place in Gard Gab area, in Noshki district 150 kilometres west of Quetta, local police official Abdul Salam told AFP. The assailants ambushed a police van bringing recruits from a police training college in Qalat, he said.
"Three police recruits were killed on the spot. Another died on the way to the hospital," he said, adding that two

PESHAWAR: Three people, including two police constables, were killed and another eight injured in a suicide attack at Swabi Police Lines on Monday. The bomber blew himself up outside the Shah Mansoor compound of the police lines.
According to details, four assailants, including the suicide bomber, arrived at the lines by a car and opened indiscriminate fire at the police guards at the gate, killing two officials.
The attackers then tried to enter the lines, but officials

LAHORE: The equitable distribution of resources, elimination of corruption and curbing police injustices is essential for setting up a peaceful society, Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif said on Thursday.
He made these comments while addressing a large gathering of people after the distribution of vouchers of free fertilizers, seeds and quilts among the flood victims in Esa Khel in Mianwali district. The CM said that it was unfortunate that the poor, backward regions were the

KARACHI: A special mobile tracking system will be provided to Karachi police to help them maintain law and order, a meeting attended by members of the National
Assembly's Standing Committee on Interior and Sindh police officials held at the Inspector General of Police (IGP)'s Office on Thursday decided. A detailed summary of the law and order situation in the city was given by Karachi CCPO Fayyaz Ahmed Leghari.
Similar announcements were made earlier but 101 police stations

KARACHI: A protest was staged outside the press club by a grieved 17-year-old boy's mother with the assistance of civil society organizations to condemn the kidnapping of her son by the police five months ago.
On May 20, Imran Jokhio was on his way to his village in a rickshaw when Head Constable Ilyas Sehto and Constable Ghulam Rasool Marri 'abducted' him at Mafi Faqir Bridge in Naushehro Feroze district, Shahina, his mother, said.
"My son worked at a tailor's shop in