Tag: Shootout

GUJRANWALA - A notorious criminal was shot dead in an encounter with police near Sheranwala Park at GT Road while his three accomplices managed to escape. Reportedly, Ladhewala Warraich police conducted a raid in the residential area in the Sheranwala Park locality to arrest a robber, Sarfraz of village Varpal Chattha.
Sarfraz started firing to avoid his arrest. The police also opened fire killing him instantly.
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LAHORE - Two alleged robbers were shot dead in a shootout with the police in Harbanspura Police precincts late on Wednesday. The police claimed that one robber died as a result of firing from his accomplice while the other was shot dead by the police. The police arrested one robber while three others fled.
Police said robbers snatched a mobile phone and Rs 3,500 from a pedestrian namely Ashraf near Wada Sattar, Sheran Wali Kothi. Muhafiz Squad personnel, who were on a routine

MARDAN - As many as four militants and two police officers were killed and 10 policemen and civilians injured in a shootout on Fatima Road at Shahdhand Tuesday morning. Reportedly, on a tip off about the presence of some militants at Shahdhand graveyard, a party, headed by Hoti SHO Mian Mazhar Shah Khan, reached the spot and blocked the road.
As the police party saw four suspects, they ordered them to stop for checking. Instead of stopping, all the four militants resorted to

LAHORE - As many as 10 people were injured and one died in a scuffle between two cable network groups over cable distribution rights in Green Town on Tuesday. The deceased was identified as Qaisar (20), a Satukatla resident.
The injured were identified as Muhammad Hussain, Khaild Hussain, Mazhar Hussain, Akram, Yousaf, Ghulam Murtaza, Faryad and others. The scuffle started between two groups: Faryad Group and Bhola Group on the ownership of a cable contract in PCSIR (Staffers

ISLAMABAD - In a clear expression of rising annoyance among Pakistani authorities over mounting US pressure for the release of Raymond Davis, an American detained in Lahore for killing two Pakistani citizens, Pakistan on Sunday said it would not sit quiet over the shooting of its citizens.
With Islamabad's rejection of the US demand for Davis' immediate release, the US, instead of backing off, has intensified pressure with American diplomats in Washington and Islamabad warning

ISLAMABAD - Seven people sustained bullet injuries on Saturday in a shootout between two groups in village Karlot in the Bhara Kau Police Station precincts, on the outskirts of the federal capital.
Members of two groups led by Sher Asif and Raja Nasir opened fire on each other, injuring seven people. The dispute arose out of a refusal to a marriage proposal. The injured were taken to PIMS and Federal Government Services Hospital.
Source in PIMS said that two of the injured

GUANGZHOU: Pakistan goalkeeper Salman Akbar saved the last shot of a penalty shoot-out against South Korea to steer his team into the Asian Games men's hockey final on Tuesday.
Both teams were locked 1-1 in 70 minutes of regulation time and failed to break the impasse after 15 minutes of extra-time in an absorbing semi-final at the Aoti Hockey Centre.
Waqas Muhammad put Pakistan ahead in the 22nd minute, before Kang Moon-Kyu drew level four minutes into the second

ISLAMABAD
A rivals' clash at Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS) on Friday left one dead and six injured, exposing the security arrangements of the hospital as well as local police apparatus.
The incident occurred outside the gate of the emergency ward in a broad daylight in the presence of hundreds of patients and visitors. The two rival groups, led by Naeem and Chaudhry Riaz, clashed over a land dispute in the Tarlai area in the limits of Koral police