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Permanent ban proposed

By: Ashraf Javed | May 22, 2013

LAHORE - The federal government in principle has decided to continue ban on the YouTube permanently basis, suggesting the reopening of the video-sharing website with the present content could trigger ...

Punjab police back to square one

By: Ashraf Javed | May 19, 2013

  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 ...

Abducted Gilani still in Punjab?

By: Ashraf Javed | May 15, 2013

LAHORE - The Punjab police are yet to trace the whereabouts of the abducted son of former Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, as the investigators are still groping in the dark with no clue and no ...

Female cops face harassment

By: Ashraf Javed | May 15, 2013

ISLAMABAD - Female police officials face sexual harassment, absence of facilities and resistance from male counterparts at workplace, and all these factors discourage them to join the field.There is ...

Tears from the sky! Blaze toll swells to 28

By: Ashraf Javed | May 11, 2013

LAHORE - The death toll of LDA Plaza inferno swelled to 28 on Friday, 24 hours after the blaze tore through the seventh floor of the 13-strorey building on Edgerton Road in the heart of Lahore. Since ...

Blaze burns down rescuers' claims

By: Ashraf Javed | May 10, 2013

LAHORE - Throughout the day on Thursday, thousands of people were helplessly watching the men falling off the LDA Plaza after the multi-storey building caught fire. The rescuers failed to bring the ...

Seven die in LDA Plaza inferno

By: Ashraf Javed | May 10, 2013

Lahore - Seven people were killed and 26 others suffered burns when a fire broke out at the 7th floor of the 13-storey LDA Plaza on Edgerton Road due to short-circuit on Thursday.Three men were ...

Pakistani ‘critical’ after attacked in Indian jail

By: Ashraf Javed | May 04, 2013

Lahore - In what appeared to be a tit-for-tat assault, a 52-year old Pakistani prisoner, Rana Sanaullah Haq, serving a life term in a jail in Jammu, was brutally attacked by Indian inmates on ...

Islamabad deeply assessing Sarabjit’s fate

By: Ashraf Javed | April 30, 2013

lahore - Indian inmate Sarabjit Singh is still in deep coma at the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Jinnah Hospital, where a four-member panel of leading doctors on Monday ruled out the possibility ...

Sarabjit attackers confess ‘acted alone’

By: Ashraf Javed | April 28, 2013

LAHORE  - The inmates who attacked Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh in the Kot Lakhpat Jail on Friday confessed to the police that they had planned the attack and acted alone to become national ...

Can Punjab police catch a big fish?

By: Ashraf Javed | April 21, 2013

LAHOREThe police have launched large-scale search operations against suspected terrorists by inspecting all the religious schools, neighbourhoods, and even the motorists at the pickets set up across ...

Mian Mansha’s son put behind bars

By: Ashraf Javed | April 19, 2013

lahoreMian Omar Mansha, son of Mian Muhammad Mansha, Pakistan’s richest man, was arrested Thursday on the charge of display of weapons and interfering in official affairs following a scuffle ...

Police swoop on hiding sectarian activists

By: Ashraf Javed | April 18, 2013

LAHORE  - Police raided more than 48 religious schools located in different parts of the provincial metropolis and cleared 2026 students after proper checking, officials claimed on Wednesday. ...

Police pull up socks to protect key politicians

By: Ashraf Javed | April 17, 2013

LAHORE -  Inspector General of Police (IGP) Punjab Aftab Sultan on Tuesday warned that there would be zero tolerance for violators of the code of conduct prescribed for the general elections ...

Punjab cracks down on election code violators

By: Ashraf Javed | April 16, 2013

LAHORE - Punjab Police has launched a clamp down on the violators of the Code of Conduct for the general elections and 58 people in five districts have been arrested in last three days, police ...

Caretakers fail to take care of public

By: Ashraf Javed | April 14, 2013

LAHORE – Since the police are busy in ‘electioneering’ in the Punjab province, the incidents of killings, abductions, robberies, and other heinous crimes are rapidly increasing ...

Police, intelligence join hands for peaceful polls

By: Ashraf Javed | April 07, 2013

LAHORE – With the general elections just around the corner, the Central Police Office (CPO) has revealed a comprehensive security strategy for the Punjab province as special task forces are ...

Five Pakistanis declared ‘Friends of Bangladesh’ in Dhaka

By: Ashraf Javed | April 03, 2013

LAHORE – Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid has conferred “Foreign Friends of Bangladesh Award” on five selected Pakistanis at a ceremony in Dhaka.The recipients of ...

Police shaken as spymaster becomes IGP

By: Ashraf Javed | March 31, 2013

LAHORE – Amid threats of terror attacks ahead of key voting in the country, a man of principle, has been tasked to lead the largest law enforcing agency – the police – in the Punjab ...

TTP plans to attack political system

By: Ashraf Javed | March 26, 2013

LAHORE – Calling democracy un-Islamic, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has planned multiple suicide attacks to target key politicians and public rallies ahead of general elections. Sources, ...

5 yrs gone, no change in Thana culture

By: Ashraf Javed | March 24, 2013

LAHORE – Literally, the government in the Punjab province badly failed to reform the typical policing or Thana culture during its five-year tenure. Many experts agree that any change in ...

Will CEC take care of politicised policemen?

By: Ashraf Javed | March 17, 2013

LAHORE – As the five-year tenure of the present regime expired on Saturday night, the country will see transition of powers in the center and the provinces in the days ahead with general ...

Terror descends greatly, crimes up in Punjab

By: Ashraf Javed | March 17, 2013

LAHORE – Terrorism and sectarian violence descended to a large extent in the Punjab province during the five-year tenure of the present regime though the crime rate continued to swell to an ...

Most-wanted

By: Ashraf Javed | March 16, 2013

LAHORE – The city police on Friday issued a list of seven “most wanted” suspected involved in the Saturday’s arson attack on the Joseph Colony in the Christian neighborhood, ...

In breach of Police Order 2002, junior at senior seat

By: Ashraf Javed | March 15, 2013

LAHORE – In violation of the Police Order 2002, the Punjab government has again appointed a junior officer as the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) removing DIG Amjad Javed Saleemi on the ...

Negligent police let Christian homes burn

By: Ashraf Javed | March 10, 2013

LAHORE – The poor policing has given room to vandals to unleash mob justice in Joseph Colony in the Badami Bagh police limits on Saturday The frightened Christian fled their homes silently on ...

Violent mob torches Christian locality

By: Ashraf Javed | March 10, 2013

LAHORE - Scores of houses in a mostly Christian neighbourhood were torched and several shops ransacked on Saturday over an alleged blasphemy charge as thousands stormed Joseph Colony in the Badami ...

CCPO next nominee for the Guinness Book of World Records?

By: Ashraf Javed | March 03, 2013

LAHORE – The Chief Minister’s Secretariat must recommend the name of the Capital City Police Officer (CCPO), DIG Amjad Javed Saleemi, to the Guinness Book of World Records for ...

100 LeJ, SSP activists detained across Punjab

By: Ashraf Javed | March 02, 2013

LAHORE – More than 100 activists including several ‘diehard followers’ of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) have been detained across the Punjab ...

Confessions of a hardened lover

By: Ashraf Javed | February 26, 2013

“By killing the mother of my seven children, I have destroyed my life in this world and the hereafter. She was a nice lady, a loving companion and a caring mother,” 75-year-old Latif ...

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