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LAHORE - DIG Operations Lahore Rao Sardar Ali Khan has dismissed seven Lahore Police officials including three inspectors after the charges of corruption, patronising land mafia and releasing a murder accused were provem in separate departmental inquiries on Tuesday. Lahore Police Spokesman Nayab Haider said DIG Operations has dismissed inspectors Tahir Zain ul Abidin and Muzammil Hussain and a sub-inspector Saeed Anwar from service after the charges of misuse of power, corruption and

KARACHI - The counter urban terrorism training of selected Sindh police personnel of various ranks - sub inspector, assistant sub inspectors, sergeants and constables - conducted by the Army, concluded at Malir Cantt on Monday. An ISPR press release said that the four-week intensive training course of a batch of 202 policemen was held under the auspices of Karachi Corps. The training included enhancement of skills in close quarter encounter, sniper firing, repelling, cordon and search

GUJRANWALA - Gujranwala Regional Police Officer (RPO) Malik Ahmad Raza Tahir has issued the confirmation orders of 226 sub inspectors and constituted a district-level committee to sort out hurdles for in-time promotions of the police officers. The sub inspectors who got confirmation orders were 77 from Gujranwala, 37 from Gujrat, 68 from Sialkot, 15 from Hafizabad, 13 from Mandi Baha-ud-Din and 16 from Narowal. Hubco Power Plant starts functioning: The Hubco Power Plant Narowal has

ASADABAD - Taliban insurgents abducted around 50 off-duty Afghan policemen in an ambush in a volatile province in northeastern Afghanistan, the militant group and provincial officials said on Sunday.
The policemen were abducted by militants in the Chapa Dara district of remote northeastern Kunar province after returning from neighbouring Nuristan province where they had travelled to collect their salaries, Nuristan governor Jamaluddin Badr said.
"The policemen were in

ASADABAD - Taliban insurgents abducted around 50 off-duty Afghan policemen in an ambush in a volatile province in northeastern Afghanistan, the militant group and provincial officials said on Sunday.
Taliban-led militants have stepped up their fight this year against the Afghan government and its Western backers at a time when Kabul has announced security responsibilities for seven areas will be handed to Afghan forces in July.
The policemen were abducted by militants in the

LAHORE - More than 8,000 policemen will perform duty on March 23, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen said on Monday. He was presiding a meeting of senior police officers to review security arrangements for Pakistan Day on March 23. Tareen ordered officials to ensure checking of all hotels, inns and bus and wagon stands to avoid any untoward incident on March 23.
He directed officers to make arrangements to ensure a smooth flow of traffic.
Tareen said

ALGIERS - Thousands of community policemen rallied in Algeria on Monday to demand a pay raise, breaking through heavy security to reach parliament in a rare mass show of dissent in the tightly controlled country. The protesters, estimated by organisers to number more than 10,000, braved a ban on demonstrations in the capital and pushed through several police cordons to move from Martyrs Square to the National Assembly.
They were quickly surrounded by regular police despatched to

LAHORE - More than 8,000 policemen would perform duty on the Eid Miladun Nabi, Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Aslam Tareen said on Sunday. He was chairing a meeting of senior police officers at his office, in which security arrangements for the Eid Miladun Nabi were discussed.
The CCPO ordered special surveillance and checking of all hotels and bus and wagon stands to avoid any untoward incident and ensure law and order on the sacred occasion. He directed officers to

PESHAWAR - Militants fired rockets and bullets on a police patrol van in Balyamina area of District Hangu on Monday, killing at least two policemen including a sub inspector. The ambush left seven policemen injured. The District Police Officer Abdul Rashid Khan told Pakistan Today that militants hiding in mountains fired five rockets on the police when they were passing through a road linking Samana and Orakzai Agency.
The rockets were followed by firing with sophisticated