Tag: Sindh Rangers
Police to investigate govt officials over PIA employee deaths
Case registered against federal minister, a senator, a former adviser to PM and two airline officials on complaint of PIA employees’ Joint Action Committee
Police...
Three PIA strikers killed as PM says won’t tolerate dissent
PIA flight operations suspended across the country as employees protest killing of three colleagues during clash with Rangers and police personnel near Karachi’s Jinnah...
Karachi operation to continue come hell or high water, says Sindh...
Sindh Rangers Director General Maj Gen Bilal Akbar said that the Karachi operation would continue, and there are no hurdles that cannot be resolved...
Rangers vow to target armed wings of political parties in Karachi
The Sindh Rangers have vowed to continue the operation in Karachi with “full force” against target killers, terrorists and other criminal elements.
According to a statement...
Centre issues notification extending Sindh Rangers’ policing powers
Just two days after the Sindh cabinet rejected the federal government’s decision to extend the Sindh Rangers’ policing powers, the government issued a notification...
Centre snubs Sindh govt over Rangers’ issue, tells it to fall...
Federal Interior Ministry rejects restrictions on Rangers’ powers, extends their special powers for 60 days only
Ministry tells Sindh govt to draft a new summary...
Sindh CM warns against governor’s rule
Qaim Ali Shah says federal govt does not have the authority to impose governor’s rule in any province
Says Sindh Rangers DG ‘satisfied’ with special...
PPP to bring resolution on Rangers’ ‘special powers’, finally!
Sindh Education Minister Nisar Khuhro has announced that he will move a resolution regarding extension in stay and policing powers for Rangers.
The minister vowed...
Federal govt spends Rs9bn annually on Karachi operation, asserts Nisar
Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan on Monday claimed that the federal government is spending about Rs9 billion annually on Karachi operation.
In an...
Nisar says Sindh govt making Karachi operation controversial ‘to save one...
Nisar asks provincial government to change tactics or else threatened to make public a “confidential joint investigation report and other reports by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and National Accountability Bureau (NAB) so that the public can decide for itself who is trying to hide what.”
‘Political’ militants were given refuge on Dr Asim’s orders, says Ziauddin...
ATC judge rejects NAB’s request for gaining PPP leader’s custody but allows accountability officials to complete probe by accessing accused through police
Dr Asim’s wife retracts contempt of court plea against Rangers
Chairperson of Sindh Higher Education Commission (HEC) Dr Asim Hussain’s wife on Thursday retracted her contempt of court plea against Rangers. Dr Zareen Hussain’s...
A new class of criminals
Amid operation of the Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in Karachi against organized crime, street criminals are moving in to fill the void, Pakistan Today...
Rangers pack up construction business from KU land
KU Director Legal Affairs Asif Mukhtar says paramilitary force had vacated the campus land days after Pakistan Today made the revelation regarding the federal institution’s involvement in ‘illegal’ construction business
Missing boy: Rangers, Sindh police chief put on notice
The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday issued notices to the Sindh Rangers director general and Sindh inspector general on a petition seeking the...
Rangers have ‘occupied’ Sindh, says Altaf
Altaf claims he telephoned Asif Zardari and Qaim Ali Shah to discuss the role of Rangers in Sindh but was unable to establish contact with either of them despite several attempts.
PPP not first to cry foul on anti-terror drive
While the leadership of Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) claims it is being targeted by the law enforcement agencies and armed forces in Karachi Operation, the military says that PPP is the third political outfit of the country to cry “victimisation” after the launch of Operation Zarb-e-Azb.