KARACHI - Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan said that Law-Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) are taking action against criminal elements for terrorism, target killings and kidnapping for ransom. Ibad said this while talking to the participants of Staff Course of Command and Staff College Quetta in a ...

Lucy Morgan Edwards This week the defence select committee published a report which concluded that civil war in Afghanistan is likely when international forces leave next year. If the predictions of Securing the Future of Afghanistan are correct, the Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence share ...

ISLAMABAD - Illegal fruit market running in the area of Khanna Pull has turned into safe haven for criminals and murderersThis market is located alongside Expressway, which has now become a security risk. The alleged murderers are sitting there in the guise of owners of hand driven carts. They have ...

KARACHI-Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) former legislators have expressed concern over increase in street crimes, terming the city as safe heaven for the criminals. In a joint statement on Monday, former JI legislators, including Muzaffar Hashmi, Laeeq Khan, Nasrullah Shajih, Hameedullah Advocate and Younus ...

Chief of Balochistan National Party (BNP) Akhtar Mengal has threatened to boycott the general elections if reservations regarding security threats to candidates and his party were not removed.Talking to media persons here on Thursday, Akhtar Mengal blamed that his party workers were being targeted ...

RAWALPINDI – In a daring day light robbery incident that too right under the nose of City Police Officer (CPO), four unidentified intruders snatched prize bonds worth Rs 1 million from a citizen on gunpoint at Katcheri Chowk, the area of Police Station (PS) Civil Lines, sources informed on ...

I wish to draw your attention to a very serious issue which relates to our children’s health. We all know that to keep the children healthy and to protect them from dreadful diseases such as Polio is our priority and duty. No one can deny the importance of the campaign to eradicate this ...

KARACHI - The chehlum of Hazrat Imam Hussain (RA) was observed in the largest city of Pakistan with full zeal and religious enthusiasm here on Thursday.Thousands of mourners participated in the central procession, which was taken out from Nishter Park at 1:00pm under tight security measures taken ...

RAWALPINDI - The robbers, dacoits and car lifters have been on looting spree in various parts of the district while Rawalpindi police are doing nothing to protect the lives and property of the citizens.Apparently failed in controlling the swelling crime rate in their precincts with no official ...

A report in Nawa-i-Waqt revealing that 8321 incidents of the theft of cars and motorcycles have occurred in Lahore this year is a damning indictment of the Punjab police. That most of these incidents occurred in Model Town division is quite alarming and so is that the finding that on an average, 23 ...

RAWALPINDI  - Criminal activities are on the rise within the precincts of Saddar Baironi and Westridge police stations. The gangs of car lifters, robbers and dacoits roam freely in these areas, deprive people from their valuables and manage to flee away easily without being challenged by ...

QUETTA - Two wanted criminals were killed and four others, including Levies and Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) personnel were wounded in a shooting at Killi Malezai in district Pishin, some 40 kilometres away from Quetta, on Monday.According to officials, acting upon a tip-off in killi Malezai, the ...

RAWALPINDI – The gangs of auto-thieves, robbers, dacoits and criminals have been ruling the roost in the city for the last 72 hours by lifting four vehicles and four motorcycles, snatching a car and cash, burgling Rs 50,000 and mobile phones from a shop while gold and other valuables from a ...

KARACHI   - Police arrested six criminals in Dalmia and recovered one kidnapped girl and weapons on Wednesday. Police on a tip-off launched operation against criminals in Dalmia. During encounter, an exchange of fire took place between the police and criminals as a result one police constable ...

With no let up in crime incidents all over Punjab, it is time to pull up those entrusted with the task of maintaining law and order. On Saturday, criminals went on the rampage, plundering the city at will and shooting down those who offered resistance. Responsibility for law and order squarely ...

SIALKOT - Regional Police Officer (RPO) Muhammad Amin said on Sunday that the Gujranwala Police were committed to protecting life and property of the common man and will spare no efforts to come up to expectations of the masses.Addressing members of the Sialkot Motorcycle Dealers’ Association ...

LAHORE – SC CJ Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry has said that Punjab Prosecution Department is a hub of corruption and it has completely failed to improve its progress despite having budget of billions of rupees. “The criminals are kidnapping the daughters of poor masses while the state is ...

LAHORE – All the prisons in Punjab have become gang-making factories, alleges a top police office. DIG (Operations) G.M. Dogar also says that most of the hardened criminals never stop committing crime after serving jail terms. Addressing a meeting at his office on Monday, the top cop further ...

KHANEWAL - The police arrested three criminals of Ansri Gang and recovered booty of Rs135,000, three motorcycles, one Tola gold, Saudi currency, 3 pistols, 15 bullets from their procession.This was disclosed by DPO Muhammad Waqar Abbasi while taking to newsmen here Thursday. The arrested criminals ...

KARACHI - The Sindh government on Monday claimed that it would implement all directions of the Supreme Court verdict in suo-moto case on Karachis law and order situation. In a meeting of senior officials of Sindh government, chaired by the provincial law minister Ayaz Soomro, also decided to ...

Police arrested six culprits involved in motorcycles snatching and other street crimes and recovered arms and snatched bikes from their possession here in Karachi during raids on Friday-Saturday night. The police on a tip off approached four motorcycle snatchers in Mangopir locality near Hamdard ...

ISLAMABAD - Islamabad Police during the current year arrested 192 street criminals in its special campaign to curb street crime as well as dacoity incidents. Police have also recovered looted items worth hundreds of thousands of rupees, 162 mobile phones and 23 cars. Inspector General of Police ...

Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Wasan on Thursday said that the operation in Karachi was progressing successfully and had helped in controlling the citys security situation, a private TV reported. According to details, speaking to media representatives in Khairpur, Mr Wasan lauded the performance of ...

After examining hundreds of combat support and reconstruction contracts in Afghanistan, the U.S military estimates $360 million in U.S. tax dollars has ended up in the hands of people the American-led coalition has spent nearly a decade battling: the Taliban, criminals and power brokers with ties ...

Governor Sindh Dr Ishratul Ibad on Saturday met PPP senior leader Babar Awan in Islamabad and discussed political situation. Talking to media after the meeting Ibad said that criminal elements exploited the differences between the PPP and the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM). Ibad said that steps ...

OUR STAFF REPORTER LAHORE Newly-appointed DIG (Operations) Ghulam Mahmood Dogar has reiterated the statement of CCPO Lahore by directing the City police 'shoot-to-kill orders for criminals in wake of any kind of dacoity or clash with police personnel. While presiding over a meeting of divisional ...

MULTAN - The district police claimed to have smashed at least 13 gangs of outlaws and arrested 50 gangsters besides recovering booty worth over Rs6 million from them during a special drive against anti-social elements. Sources said that six motorbikes, one tractor, one air-conditioner, one car, ...

ISLAMABAD Criminal Investigation Agency (CIA) busted 10 notorious gangs and nabbed a total of 41 accused involved in cases of blind murders, dacoities, auto-theft and recovered gold ornaments worth over Rs10 million, cash, mobile phones, gemstones, vehicle and illegal weapons from their custody. ...

LAHORE Instead of showing their faces to the journalists and other people, the police always keep the heads (and faces) of the hardened criminals during their press and court showings under unexplained logic. The top cops, however, argue that the chief motive behind their face-covering is to save ...

LAHORE - In a special operation as many as 67,794 proclaimed offenders have been nabbed during the last nine months across the province by Punjab Police. It was informed in a meeting presided over by Inspector General of Police Punjab Tariq Saleem Dogar at Central Police Office here on Tuesday. The ...