Since times immemorial, human beings have been migrating to other lands for a variety of reasons, including political upheavals, social inequalities, wars and to secure better economic future for themselves and their families, known as economic migration. The phenomenon of economic migration is ...

ISLAMABAD -  The SECP has filed a criminal complaint in the competent court of law against Muhammad Ahmed Nadeem, chief executive and shareholder of Muhammad Ahmed Nadeem Securities (Pvt) Ltd, an ex-member of Islamabad Stock Exchange and Muhammad Ahmed Janjua company secretary. According to a ...

In Pakistan, prisons are no better than criminal dens, where crime breeds and multiplies. The jungle law prevails inside these prisons; rules are regularly flouted for prisoners with resources and influence. Here corruption, torture, sexual abuse, drug addiction and diseases run rampant and there ...

The Supreme Court of Pakistan’s Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry said on Monday that lawmakers holding fake-degrees could face criminal cases.According to a private television channel, a three-member bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, resumed ...

RAWALPINDI - Criminal activities of eunuchs have reached alarming proportion in the area of Pir Wadhai with the connivance of police.The entire bus terminal has turned into den of criminals and male prostitutes and gays. All the hotels are seething with the immoral activities of gays and eunuchs ...

In an upsurge of reprehensible attacks on the health workers engaged in saving children from succumbing to the crippling disease of polio, Pakistan has lost no less than eight of these workers, including five women, in a matter of just two days, Tuesday and Wednesday. Indefensible by any standard, ...

LONDON - Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine are to lodge a criminal complaint in France over the taking and publication of topless photographs which appeared last week in a French magazine, a palace spokeswoman said Sunday. "We can confirm that a criminal complaint is to be made to the ...

RAWALPINDI – Criminal activities are on the rise in the thickly populated Gawalmandi area in the jurisdiction of City Police Station while police are playing the role of silent spectators.The residents talking to INP deplored slackness of police for not acting against criminals who commit ...

After a decade of calamitous western wars in the wider Middle East, the signs are becoming ever more ominous that we’re heading for another. And, hard as it is to credit, the same discredited arguments used to justify the disasters of Iraq and Afghanistan – from weapons of mass ...

ISLAMABAD – The Senate on Monday passed a bill that makes violence against women and children an offence carrying jail terms and fines.The Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill was introduced by Senator Nilofar Bakhtiar and passed unanimously by the upper house of the ...

The police are not a separate entity, it has to work within the legal framework and proceed according to rules and regulations. If the legal system is unable to support the law enforcement apparatus then the police becomes helpless. It has been observed that on many occasions, criminals and ...

Clandestinely, the CIA has been carrying drone strikes in the tribal areas of Pakistan since 2004. Very little is known about the operation and its working to the rest of the world. The perpetrator - the CIA - is a black hole of information and remains silent about the targets of the strikes. Local ...

Our Staff Reporter KARACHI - Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) shares Holders Association General Secretary Choudary Mazhar Ali has alleged that long loadshedding in Industrial zone is a criminal act of KESC management because it can easily generate enough electricity by using of oil. Mazhar ...

Lauren Booth, the sister-in-law of Tony Blair, failed to stand down as a company director after being declared bankrupt, Telegraph reported Sunday. Tony Blairs sister-in-law, who has spoken about her shame and embarrassment of becoming insolvent, could face a criminal investigation into her ...

CAIRO (AFP) - Egypt's once feared former interior minister Habib al-Adly pleaded not guilty to corruption charges on Saturday, in the first trial of a member of ousted president Hosni Mubarak's regime. Standing in the dock and dressed in white prison clothes, Adly denied accusations of money ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine has begun a second criminal investigation into the affairs of the previous government led by Yulia Tymoshenko, the prosecutor general said on Friday. Charges have not been drawn up yet but the investigation is determining those responsible, Viktor Pshonka told ...

KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was charged Monday over alleged misuse of state funds during her tenure as prime minister in 2007-10, Tymoshenkos spokeswoman said. Tymoshenko, who narrowly lost the February presidential election to President Viktor Yanukovich, has ...

ISLAMABAD The death toll of the people who lost their lives in the unprecedented flash floods is believed to have exceeded 5000 contrary to the official figures provided by the Governments agencies. Unofficial and authentic reports received from the worst hit areas of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa suggested ...

LAHORE - Some locals of Wapda Town killed an alleged robber when he was looting a family near K-I Market in Sattokatla police limits on Sunday, police said. Police investigators said that Usman Ashraf along with his mother was on his way back to the house on a car. Two masked men riding on a ...

LAHORE - The Operation Wing of Lahore Police smashed 386 criminal gangs and arrested their 1117 members and recovered looted property worth Rs 38.02 million during the year 2009. More than 12,000 court absconders and proclaimed offenders were also nabbed during the same period. It was disclosed ...

KARACHI At least 83 corruption cases registered against 200 persons including Interior Minster Rehman Malik, Salman Farooqi, Sindh Minister Agha Siraj Durani, and other former bureaucrats and politicians have been withdrawn under the cover of National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) in Sindh. ...

LAHORE - The Lahore police claimed to have smashed 441 criminal gangs and arrested their 1487 member while looted property worth Rs 513.3 million was also recovered during the first seven months of the current year. As many as 10932 court absconders and proclaimed offenders were also nabbed during ...

LAHORE - A Special Court of Banking Offences, for the first time in history of the country, punished a cyber crime offender by awarding 41-year imprisonment and a fine of Rs 5 million to an accused involved in withdrawing Rs 170 million from accounts of different banks through fake credit cards. ...