Tag: Security

Strict security arrangements are being made at Lady Wallington Hospital (LWH), Mayo Hospital (MH) and Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH) on the directions of...

The Excise and Taxation (E&T) Department has been unable to achieve the tax recovery target during this financial year also due to the deteriorating...

A joint meeting of the National Assembly, Senate House Committee and Senate Library Committee was held at the Parliament House on Tuesday in which...

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari on Monday convened emergency talks with his prime minister and security chiefs in Islamabad following US confirmation that Osama...

The Police Department has signed an agreement with a private company to install video cameras in the sensitive areas of the city. According to...

The current temporary improvement in the country’s external accounts, whereas, appears to have brought enough comfort for economic managers for the time being, the...

LAHORE - Kissan Hall, located in a small street on the Mozang Road, is a place where Lahore's re-emerging left (Leftist Parties, that is) convenes. It is the weekly host to the Marxism Day School and regular conventions for various Leftist political parties. On Wednesday, the Worker's Party Pakistan organised a seminar, rather ironically titled, 'National security and Pakistan.' Settled at the speakers seats were Farooq Tariq (Labour Party Pakistan), Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (Worker's

TEHRAN - Iran on Tuesday said it would ensure the security of the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran after Riyadh threatened to pull out its diplomats following protests by Iranians outside its mission."The security of embassies is a basic principle and we will ensure the security of embassies and the lives of diplomats," foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast told reporters at a press conference in reference to Saudi threat. "Our people are sensitive to what is happening the

KARACHI - The ruling PPP and MQM's joint ministerial committee on law and order on Friday agreed to a five-point proposal to curb target killings and other criminal and terrorist activities in Karachi.
"A five-point formula has been suggested and sent to Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah for implementation," PPP Sindh Minister for Local Government Agha Siraj Durrani said. He, however, did not disclose he details of the suggestions.
Besides Durrani, PPP's Minister for

ISLAMABAD - Taking life threats to Kamal Azfar in account seriously, the Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the senior lawyer to disassociate himself from the government's review plea against the SC verdict against the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO).
While heading the 17-member full court hearing the federation's review petition against the NRO verdict, Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said he received a note put up by the SC registrar on a faxed complaint from

ISLAMABAD - Two French nationals suspected of belonging to an international terror group have been arrested by Pakistani security services, French and local sources said on Thursday.
The two are suspected of being part of the group responsible for the bloody attacks in Bali in 2002 that killed 202 people, the worst terror attack in Indonesia, according to Pakistani security officials, who requested anonymity. The terror group is allegedly headed by Indonesian Umar Patek, who was

ISLAMABAD - The National Assembly Standing Committee on House and Library expressed its reservations on Thursday with the security arrangements at Parliament House and Government Hostel. Committee members discussed security arrangements at Parliament House and the hostel and told Islamabad police to take stern measures to ensure foolproof security for both. The committee also told the Capital Development Authority (CDA) to make the arrangements necessary for the provision of shade and

KARACHI - Security guard robbed cash worth nine millions rupees from a local bank in Kharadar(Karachi) by cutting the lockers and fled away.
As per details, security guard with the help of his three friends cut down the lockers and robbed foreign and local currency worth nine millions from a branch of Muslim Commercial Bank located in the jurisdiction of Kharadar Police Station.
Police told that the suspect's companions were also wearing security guard's uniform. SSP of

KARACHI - The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency (PMSA) has apprehended three boats - Al-Hakeemi, Al-Haleemi and Al-Mubashar - and arrested 33 crewmembers for smuggling Iranian fuel. A PMSA ship, while carrying out routine patrolling in the western maritime region, seized the three Pakistani boats that were carrying 80,000 litres of Iranian diesel, said a press release issued by the PMSA on Sunday. It said that the boats and the 33 crewmembers were handed over to the Customs

KASUR - Security has been beefed up in all the shrines situated in Kasur, said DPO Gohar Nafees at a press conference on Sunday. He said since terrorists were targeting shrines, close-circuit TV cameras had been installed in and around these shrines.
He added all the shrines would be closed at 8pm for the visitors to control the law and order. He also appealed to ulema, politions, traders and jounalists to help the police protect the visitors.
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LAGOS - Nigerians voted in a delayed parliamentary election on Saturday, voicing determination to hold a credible poll in Africa's most populous nation despite chaotic organisation and violence.
At least seven more people were killed in four separate incidents in the last few hours before polling. Those deaths followed the killing of at least 10 people by a bomb at an election office late on Friday. Violence which has taken around 100 lives in the run-up to the election, as well

SOHAR - Heavy security prevented fresh protests after Friday prayers in the Omani city of Sohar, where protesters camped out for over a month before security forces moved them out last week.
Checkpoints were set up across the northeastern industrial city with dozens of armoured vehicles blocking access to protest areas. Residents' names were checked against a list and access to mosques was restricted, while a helicopter flew overhead, witnesses said. Demonstrations in Oman,