HAFIZABADThe District Police have failed completely to control crime, leaving the masses at the mercy of dacoits and thieves. The Punjab Chief Minister should take notice of worsening law and order situation in the district. The remarks were made at a meeting of the Awami Mahaz held here on Sunday. ...

MINCHINABADA local business community has questioned the performance of the Minchinabad Police and regretted its failure to arrest carjackers despite a lapse of over one and half month.While addressing a press conference here at Minchinabad Press Club, prominent businessman Ch Muhammad Jamil ...

A private torture cell established in a hotel room and being operated by the Crimes Investigation Agency (CIA), a special wing of the Lahore police, was revealed on Wednesday. The police recovered a housewife and her three teenage children from the private detention center, where they had been ...

MULTANThe operation against fireworks traders has finally begun as police rounded up 14 ‘death merchants’ and registered cases against them on Tuesday. Police sources said that the arrested accused included both manufacturers and traders of fireworks.A high official of the district ...

MULTAN - The operation against fireworks traders has finally begun as police rounded up 14 ‘death merchants’ and registered cases against them on Tuesday. Police sources said that the arrested accused included both manufacturers and traders of fireworks.A high official of the district ...

Lahore -Police prepared a report of manhandling of a bus hostess by PML-N MPA Nighat Sheikh on Tuesday.The report has been sent to Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif. The report declared innocent bus hostess Iqra Nawaz and held Sheikh responsible for the incident. SHO Bhera has been called ...

LONDON : British counter-terror police on Tuesday searched two residential properties in London as part of an investigation into the murder of Pakistani politician Imran Farooq almost three years ago. The 50-year-old, a founding member of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), was attacked as he ...

LAHORE  - The provincial government has cranked up spending on law and order with the Punjab police budget allocation alone rising by an unprecedented Rs10 billion for the fiscal year 2013-14. During its maiden budget estimates presented in the Punjab Assembly, the newly-elected government has ...

The sad scenes shown on all TV news bulletins of Punjab Police chasing people into their homes with batons, and an axe in one policeman’s hand, which he plunged at the door of a house brought back memories of the Sikh marauders attacking houses in East Punjab at time of partition in 1947. It ...

RAWALPINDI- A proclaimed offender was killed at the hands of his own accomplices during an encounter with police in the wee hours of Saturday at Malikabad, Taxila. During an operation police also arrested three accused along with the weapons they used to fire at police personnel, besides ...

ISTANBUL - Demonstrators retreated from an Istanbul protest square Wednesday after a night of running battles with riot police as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan moved to crush mass demos against his Islamic-rooted government.By midday, hundreds of officers armed with riot shields and ...

SHEIKHUPURA An alleged dacoit was tortured to death during interrogation by the Sharqpur Police here the other day. According to details, Marh Bangwan Police-Post In-charge SI Amin Bhatti along with three other constables arrested one Malang Ali alias Malangi on suspicion in a dacoity case ...

BANGKOK: Thai police said Monday they had discovered more than 200 live wild animals including monkeys, tortoises and 14 white lions during a raid on a house in the capital Bangkok. Two Thai men, including the owner of a pet shop at the city’s popular Chatuchak market, were charged with ...

KOT RADHA KISHANThe Kasur District Police have busted an inter-district criminal gang and arrested its three members included the ringleader. SP (Investigations) Shahid Hafeez disclosed this while talking to newsmen here the other day. He said that the police succeeded in smashing the dacoit gang ...

peshawar - City police in a successful operation on Friday arrested three accused involved in kidnapping of a child in Peshawar.Police said that one Saeedullah son of Rawil registered an FIR on June 03, 2013 in the Police Station Mechani Gate and informed that his son Tanveer Ali Shah was kidnapped ...

peshawar - A resident of Peshawar Rasool Gul on Friday demanded the chief minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and provincial police chief to take notice of the police highhandedness and provide him protection.Addressing a news conference here at press club, Gul, resident of the City Town, said that a few ...

SIALKOT The police have arrested two rapists who had been involved in the gang raped two sisters in village Channu Mom-Akbarabad between Monday and Tuesday night. The police told the newsmen that the police had arrested two gang rape accused identified as namely Imran and Asad. Reportedly, both of ...

BAHAWALPURDistrict Police officer Sohail Zafar Chatta convened a meeting of all the banks’ managers from across the district to devise a foolproof security plan following a heist at a bank branch situated at Model Town B Block here.The meeting aimed at preparing a plan of action against the ...

ATTOCKFive special teams headed by SP (Investigations) Abbas Majeed Marwat have been constituted to arrest the accused allegedly involved in the assassination of JUP District General Secretary Daud Mustafai. Attock DPO Abdul Qadir Qamar said this while talking to newsmen here on Tuesday. He ...

LAKKI MARWAT- Police claimed to have arrested 89 proclaimed offenders and 348 suspects during a grand clean up operation carried out in the entire district last month.“DPO Abdul Rashid commanded the operation wherein the policemen assisted by personnel of Elite Force and Anti Terror Squad ...

ATTOCKA large number of angry activists of JUP accompanied by hundreds of residents of Pind Sultani, Domel and surrounding localities kept Pindi-Kohat Road blocked for second consecutive day against JUP District General Secretary Daud Mustafai killing. They set ablaze the house of the main accused ...

Islamabad -The capital police on Saturday arrested eight outlaws, including four proclaimed offenders (POs), from various areas of the city, a police spokesman said.According to details, Sub-Inspector Munir Khan and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Abdul Hameed from Tarnol Police Station along with ...

ISLAMABAD - Expressing annoyance over the failure of police in submitting the charge sheet against former military ruler Pervez Musharraf in judges’ detention case, special Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Saturday directed them to present the complete challan of the case on the next date of ...

KARACHI - Police have recovered a kidnapped doctor while an alleged captor was killed in a shootout within the remits of Maymar police post.AVCC Chief SSP Niaz Khosa informed that Dr Saleem Khokhar was kidnapped near his residence in Liaquatabad on May 29. The kidnappers demanded Rs60 million ...

ISTANBUL- Turkish police fired tear gas and water cannon on Friday at protesters occupying a park in central Istanbul, injuring scores in the latest violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations.The protest at Gezi Park started late on Monday after developers tore up trees but has widened ...

CHINOTPARVAIZ AHMEDMighty and fearless transporters continue to exploit the commuters through overloading and unilateral hike in fares on different routes while both the district government and Traffic Police appear indifferent to the miseries of the public.According to a survey conducted by The ...

SIALKOTThe District Traffic Police have launched a crackdown on public transport vehicles having faulty and substandard CNG cylinders here across the district. During a special operation, CNG cylinders of 65 vehicles were found to be substandard in Sialkot, Daska, Sambrial and Pasrur tehsils. ...

HAFIZABADThe citizens here have expressed their grave concern over the increasing incidents of dacoity, robbery, bike snatching/lifting and cattle stealing in the district and called upon the regional police officer to control the crimes.Addressing a press conference, Rana Khalid Mahmood, the ...

NEW YORK: Investigators are looking into claims made by actress Amanda Bynes that New York Police Department officers sexually assaulted her when she was charged after allegedly throwing a marijuana bong out of the window of her 36th-floor Manhattan apartment. The 27-year-old former child star ...

PARIS -French anti-terror investigators on Sunday probed the stabbing of a soldier in Paris in an attack that echoed the grisly killing of another soldier in London, where British police were holding three new suspects.French soldier Cedric Cordier was in hospital in a stable condition after the ...