MUMBAI - Police said Friday they were "investigating all the angles" in the Indian spot-fixing scandal but refused to confirm if they were targeting top Pakistani umpire Asad Rauf. Rauf was withdrawn from next month's Champions Trophy in England amid media reports that he is under police ...

Four Afghan policemen were killed by a home-made bomb that ripped through their vehicle in southern Helmand province, an official said on Friday.The incident took place on Thursday in the Kharmakh area of Musa Qala district, the governor’s spokesman, Omar Zhwak said.Four policemen travelling ...

NEW DELHI - A lawyer for one of the Indian cricketers accused of accepting tens of thousands of dollars for spot-fixing said Wednesday that police were seeking to tarnish her client's reputation. Rebecca John said police involved in the corruption probe were "deliberately planting leaks" in the ...

BAHAWALPUR Police officials dressed in plainclothes allegedly made an unsuccessful bid to nab a medical student who is as per the police wanted in a mobile snatching case though he has obtained a pre arrest bail in the case. As a result, a quarrel took place between the student and the police ...

CANNES: French police said Tuesday they were hunting three men suspected of being behind the spectacular theft last week of a million euros ($1.4 million) worth of jewellery at the Cannes Film Festival.Police in Nice said the three suspects are believed to have broken into the hotel room occupied ...

CAIRO : Egypt sent police reinforcements to the Sinai after an attack on a police camp on Monday in the wake of the kidnapping of seven security personnel in the lawless peninsula, officials said.According to one security official, 80 Central Security (riot police) units and 26 armoured personnel ...

LAHOREFollowing the directives of Punjab IGP Aftab Sultan, the police department is all set to finalise a policy about the seniority of 3003 police officers to resolve the issue of their promotions, pending for the last 30 years. The initiative would not only help boost the moral of the police ...

KOCHI - Even while Mumbai and Delhi police departments are betting big on their catch of bookies including IPL cricketers in IPL spot-fixing scandal, top police officials of Kerala Police are of the opinion that the cricketers like Sreesanth might be small players and many big shots are involved in ...

PAKPATTANThe Traffic Police has failed to perform their duties as gridlock on almost all main thoroughfares continues to irk the masses.The Traffic Police officials remain busy in vexing the motorcyclists, especially villagers, by handing them challans instead of controlling traffic.The traffic ...

PAKPATTAN - The Traffic Police has failed to perform their duties as gridlock on almost all main thoroughfares continues to irk the masses.The Traffic Police officials remain busy in vexing the motorcyclists, especially villagers, by handing them challans instead of controlling traffic.The traffic ...

SRINAGAR - NNI - Hurriyat Conference (M) chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooq was barred from addressing a function in connection with the Martyrs' Week and put under house arrest at his Nigeen residence. The amalgam has condemned the police action and reiterated the Eidgah Chalo call for May 21 (Tuesday). ...

KABUL - Taliban attacks killed at least ten Afghan police on Sunday, officials said, in the latest violence against the force which is due to take more security responsibility from NATO troops before their withdrawal next year.In one of the incidents, Taliban fighters attacked a security check post ...

NEW DELHI - Indian police said Sunday they had widened their probe into cricket spot-fixing after the arrest of three players and 11 bookmakers, warning that more teams were under the microscope. Test discard Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was among a trio of players from the Rajasthan Royals arrested on ...

MIRPUR (AJK) The AJK Police Welfare Association (AJKPWA) has demanded immediate allocation of jobs quota for the children of retired Kashmiri refugees to eliminate sense of deprivation and discrimination among them.Central Senior Vice President of the AJK Police Welfare Association DSP (r) Raja ...

GUJRANWALAThe police have arrested 12 notorious target killers for their involvement in bank robberies and killings of police officials here.According to media reports, the Gujranwala Police conducted several raids in different areas of the city and captured 12 notorious culprits including two ...

    MUMBAI   Mumbai Police has seized "what appear to be" the belongings of Sreesanth and Jiju Janardhan - both arrested by Delhi Police on spot-fixing allegations - from hotel rooms booked in their names at a five-star hotel in Mumbai. The police has received legal permission to ...

BAGHDAD - Violence in Iraq killed 11 people on Saturday including a police officer, his wife and two children, while gunmen kidnapped up to 10 people, among them police, officials said.The attacks are the latest in a wave of violence that has killed more than 270 people since the beginning of May, ...

  LAHORE The Punjab police are all set to undergo another massive reshuffle, right from top to bottom, as the PML-N is ready to form the next government in the biggest province for another five-year term since it emerged as the single-largest political party in the general election 2013. In ...

BEIJING  - Chinese police have arrested a man who allegedly made bomb threats which caused delays or diversions to Shanghai, news reports said Saturday.Eleven flights were affected in total, though the suspect is not alleged to be behind all the threats. The planes were travelling from ...

NEW DELHI - Indian cricketer and Rajasthan Royals player S Sreesanth on Friday confessed to spot-fixing in the Indian Premier League (IPL), police said. "Sreesanth has confessed to spot-fixing. He was teary eyed during interrogation," a Delhi Police official said.Rajasthan Royals cricketer Ankeet ...

STRASBOURG, France : Police on Friday deployed across high schools in the eastern French region of Strasbourg following Internet threats by a young man to stage mass killings and shoot himself, a day after a gruesome suicide at a Paris primary school. The police also released photographs of the ...

NORWICH, UK: Police had to be called in to separate rival Star Wars and Dr Who fans at a sci-fi convention in Norwich. Trouble flared at the fourth Norwich Sci-Fi and Film Convention at the University of East Anglia, organised by the Norwich Star Wars Club. Police were called after members of the ...

LAHORE - Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Khalid Dad Lak Wednesday lauded the services of the police officers and officials for providing foolproof security to ensure peaceful polls in the provincial metropolis. He also said that holding general election under present circumstances was a big ...

Recently Lahore and Karachi police encountered a group of gangsters in Lahore, which was reportedly involved in criminal activities in Karachi, including a failed attempt to kidnap a young girl in a famous shopping mall in Karachi in March 2013 in broad day light. The police bravely fought the ...

British High Commissioner (HC), Adam Thomson has said that UK police have received countless complaints against Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain’s remarks about detaching Karachi from Pakistan.In a statement, the British HC said Pakistan should take serious notice of Altaf ...

NEW DELHI A packed New Delhi courtroom sat in rapt silence this week as an irate Supreme Court judge denounced the elite Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) as a “caged parrot” and “its master’s voice”.Justice RM Lodha loudly berated the attorney-general, the ...

Multan - The police remained clueless in the kidnapping of the son of former Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani on the second day of the incident; however, an FIR (No. 280/13) was registered with the Seetal Mari Police on Friday.Ali Haider Gilani, who is PPPP candidate from PP-200 Multan ...

GOSHTAAfghan border police, enraged by recent clashes with their Pakistani counterparts, are pleading for more weapons, escalating the tension between the two sides.The fighting, in which an Afghan border policeman was killed last week, has caused a sharp deterioration in relations between the ...

KANO, Nigeria : Gunmen from a shadowy cult ambushed a group of police officers in central Nigeria, killing 23 of them and then setting fire to their bodies, the state's police chief said Thursday."A detachment of 60 police... came under attack from members of Ombatse cult in an ambush," Nassarawa ...

karachi - Commuters are facing hardship in the metropolis as public transport vehicles have been seized by the authorities for the election duties.Long queues of passengers, mostly comprising government employees and students, were seen at various bus stops on Wednesday and Thursday.On the other ...