Tag: Suspects

Law enforcement agencies (LEAs) in Karachi launched a house-to-house search operation in Sultanabad area of Mangopir on Saturday and arrested 60 suspects. LEAs...

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

LAHORE - Pakistani police said that they had arrested two middle-aged brothers on suspicion of stealing and eating human flesh in an investigation into cannibalism that has shocked a remote town.
"We arrested the two men from Kohar Kalan village on Sunday after it was revealed they had been stealing bodies from graves and eating them," local police officer Abdul Rehman told AFP.
He said police acted after the parents of a 24-year-old woman, who died of cancer, complained

RIYADH - A total of 5,080 "terror" suspects were being tried or had already been sentenced in Saudi Arabia, which battled a wave of Al Qaeda attacks in 2003-2006, the kingdom's prosecutor said on Saturday. A court specialised in terror crimes had issued its verdicts in the case of 1,612 people, while 603 other cases were still being examined, the Bureau of Investigation and Prosecution said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency. Prosecutors were also preparing charges

ISLAMABAD - In a major confidence-building measure, Pakistan on Tuesday showed willingness to permit Indian officials to undertake a visit to the country for investigation into the Mumbai attacks.
The important decision was made by Pakistan at the end of the two-day interior secretaries talks held in New Delhi on March 28 and 29th -- a day ahead of the highly-anticipated Cricket World Cup semi-final between the two states, where Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will host his

DIYARBAKIR - An Iranian airplane was forced to land at an airport in southeast Turkey late on Tuesday on suspicion that it may have been carrying arms to Syria, officials at Diyarbakir airport said. A Turkish foreign ministry official in Ankara confirmed that the plane had been asked to make a "technical landing", but declined to say why.
"The plane was coming from Iran and going to Syria. It was a cargo plane," the official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the

KARACHI - Additional District and Sessions Judge (East) Afzal Roshan on Thursday remanded four Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan suspects, who were arrested by the Crime Investigation Department on Wednesday, for seven days. The accused men - Musharraf, Sherz Ali, Hameedullah and Ahmad Ali - were brought before the court amid tight security, escorted by a heavy contingent of law enforcers. Police produced the accused men before the trial court and sought their physical remand for conducting

KARACHI - Four suspects having links to banned terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested during a raid in the Metroville area, the Crime Investigation Department (CID) said on Wednesday. Addressing a press conference, CID Senior Superintendents of Police Omar Shahid and Chaudhry Aslam said that a CID team raided a house in Metroville on a tip-off and arrested four suspects. The detainees have been identified as Musharraf, Sherz Ali, Hamidullah and Ahmad Ali, who

MURIDKE - Lahore police seized 16 stolen motorcycles and arrested two accused from the city area of Muridke. Reportedly, Hanjarwal Police Station conducted a raid here at Iqbal Park Muridke under the supervision of Sabzazar Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Shoaib Ahmed and seized 16 new Honda 125 motorcycles from a house. The police claimed that the accused had stolen and snatched the motorcycles from different areas of Lahore and had been living in the house which was the

LAHORE - Three suspects were arrested in Shahdara for plotting terrorist activities in the provincial metropolis, official sources told Pakistan Today. One of the suspects was identified as Abubakar, a resident of Lahore, while the others were identified as Sher Dil and Saad Khan, residents of North Waziristan.
According to the sources all three had been under surveillance for a week. Sources claimed that the suspects were arrested in Shahdara by a special team late on Friday

KARACHI - In a dramatic development in the Shershah carnage case on Monday, a witness filed a constitutional petition for arresting and prosecuting nine men who were released a month ago after he had failed to identify them before the court.
Anti-Terrorism Court Administrator Judge Justice Sajjad Ali Shah had acquitted the nine suspects - Ejaz, Iqbal, Muhammad Akbar, Asghar Ali, Muhammad Tufail, Abdul Rasheed, Tehseen, Jauhar and Abid - on January 26 because the complainant had

LAHORE - An accountability court on Monday extended the physical remand of Danish Shamshad, accused of involvement in the Lahore Mass Transit System Project scam until February 26. Danish is a shareholder in more than 10 properties purchased by his father and key accused in the said reference.
Former Punjab Transport Department cashier Shamshad Gulzar embezzled Rs 401.155 million from funds allocated for the Lahore Mass Transit System Project. Separately, National Accountability

KARACHI - The law enforcement agencies conducted a search operation in different areas of Orangi Town on Tuesday and arrested over 500 people. Around 1,500 personnel of police and Rangers, accompanied by helicopters for aerial surveillance and armoured vehicles, cordoned off Faqir Colony, Farid Colony and Umar Baloch Mohalla in Orangi Town and conducted a house-to-house search operation. After initial investigations, 300 people were released while the remaining suspects were

KARACHI - Two men, who allegedly tried to assassinate ANP's deputy general secretary Bashir Jan, were remanded into police custody on Saturday.
Judicial Magistrate East Zabiha Khattak remanded the two alleged accused identified as Zeeshan and Shahnawaz until January 25.
According to the prosecution, the police had arrested the two suspects in an injured condition from the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) on Friday and they had confessed before the police about their

KARACHI - An anti-terrorism court on Thursday remanded into police custody three suspects of the Karachi University (KU) cracker blast until January 20.

KARACHI - The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the Karachi police on Wednesday claimed arresting three University of Karachi (KU) students for their involvement in the cracker blast at the university.
The SIU also said that it has recovered a large quantity of weapons from the arrested men's possession.
In a press release issued on Wednesday, DSP Ali Raza said that three suspects - Mohammad Umar alias Chhotu, Syed Fayyaz Ali and Mohammad Hafeezullah - were arrested with

KARACHI - Nine suspects wanted for their alleged involvement in the Shershah killings mysteriously surrendered at the office of the Sindh home minister on Wednesday.
The alleged accused identified as Akbar, Abdul Lateef, Tufail, Abid, Tahseen, Iqbal, Ijaz, Asghar and Jauhar arrived at the home minister's office and said that they wanted to surrender in front of him. The minister called the Liaquatabad SP and handed over the suspects to him.
Last month, the police had