Tag: Police

Sukkur policeman kills fiancée, paternal uncle for ‘honour’

--Police official confesses to killing his divorcee cousin due to doubts over her 'character' A police official in Sukkur used duty rifle to kill his...

Police reforms govt’s top agenda: Buzdar

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Thursday that carrying out reforms in the police system was the top-most priority of the Pakistan...

22 held with arms, drugs, 5 stolen bikes

LAHORE: At least 22 outlaws including drug pushers were arrested here besides recovery of arms, ammunition, drugs and five stolen motorcycles. According to details, in the...

Shady encounters that caused national outcry

Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) officers on Saturday killed four people, including a couple and their teenage daughter, and injured a teenage boy in a...

Outgoing chief justice says police should be independent

ISLAMABAD: Outgoing Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Mian Saqib Nisar said on Monday that the police should be a strong and independent force while...

Lahore police arrest gang for selling drugs

LAHORE: Lahore police on Sunday arrested a seven-member gang for supplying drugs to the dance parties in the provincial capital. Talking to media, police superintendent Maaz Zafar,...

Sindh IG meets media personnel at Karachi Police Head Office

KARACHI: Group photo of  Sindh IG Syed Kaleem Imam with Syed Ibne Hassan, Shakeel Anjum, Amir Butt at Police Head Office.

CM seeks practical steps to curb crime

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Sardar Usman Buzdar said on Thursday that practical steps should be taken to curb crime because nothing was more important than the...

Encroachments in Quaid-i-Azam University removed

ISLAMABAD: Some 180 kanals of Quaid-i-Azam University’s (QAU) land was retrieved from encroachers in a joint operation carried out by the Capital Development Authority (CDA),...

IGP bounds officers to spend an hour at check-posts

LAHORE: Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Amjad Javed Saleemi on Monday mandated all police officers to spend at least an hour at check-posts around...

Two people rescued from illegal police detention

HYDERABAD: The Raid Commissioner appointed by the District and Sessions Court Hyderabad recovered two people kept in illegal detention at a private residence of a...

Suspects free accomplice from police custody, shoot him dead

GUJRAT: Five men on Friday fired shots at a police van, stopped it and got freed their accomplice from custody at gunpoint; only to kill...

Four arrested for ‘shaving off’ Kasur man’s hair

KASUR: Police on Tuesday arrested four people after they allegedly shaved the head as well as facial hair of a man for flirting with a...

Respect citizens, minister tells capital cops

ISLAMABAD: Minister of State for Interior Shehryar Khan Afridi on Friday emphasised that the government believed in practical steps and would provide maximum facilities...

Police officers directed to salute teachers

--School Education Department orders punishing teachers for students’ smoking habits LAHORE: Punjab government on Monday directed police personnel to display respect to teachers by saluting them,...

Police baton-charge PQA protestors for trying to reach Sindh Governor House

Karachi Police on Sunday baton-charged protesting employees of the Port Qasim Authority (PQA) to stop them from reaching Sindh Governor House, where Prime Minister...

Chinese consulate attack facilitators arrested, says Karachi police chief

KARACHI: Additional IG Karachi Amir Sheikh on Saturday claimed that more facilitators of the attack on the Chinese consulate in the metropolis have been...