Report in Dawn, August 19th, 2023KARACHI: Two suspected militants were arrested and a grenade was recovered from them in the Gadap area on Friday, officials said. A Rangers spokesperson said that the held suspects — Farmanullah alias Ihtisham and Daud alias Amir Sahib — were affiliated with the militant Islamic State (IS) group. A joint team of Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) and the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) carried out an intelligence-based raid and arrested the suspects.…
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AFP report in The Express Tribune, August 19th, 2023FAISALABAD/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: Police have arrested two Christian brothers accused of blasphemy, a spokesperson and a source said on Friday, two days after a mob burnt churches and houses, alleging that the two men desecrated the Holy Quran. Pages of the Holy Quran were found in a street with derogatory comments written on them in red, the police said. One attached extra page also carried the names,…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, August 17, 2023Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has brought to light a worrying surge in the detention of journalists in Afghanistan following the takeover of the country by the Taliban. Within the past 10 days, nine journalists have been arrested by the Taliban, causing significant concern among media organizations globally. The organization revealed on Wednesday that 12 journalists are currently being held in detention without any apparent reasons given.…
report in Nepalnews.com, July 18, 2023Nepal Police held a man for making fake Indian Aadhaar cards and income tax cards by misusing a photograph of Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal. The Cyber Bureau of Nepal Police arrested 49-year-old Sher Bahadur Rana of Debdaha Municipality in Rupandehi district, who was residing in Butwal City, for posting photoshopped images of the PM on social networking sites. Superintendent of Police and Spokesperson of the Bureau, Pashupati Kumar Raya,…
Report in Dawn, July 16th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department claimed on Saturday to have arrested five suspected terrorists linked with different banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. As per its spokesman, the CTD conducted 47 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different districts of the province to avert any incident of terrorism. During these IBOs, 47 suspects were interrogated and five alleged terrorists were arrested with weapons, explosives and other prohibited…
report in The News,July 10, 2023HANGU: The police claimed to have arrested four alleged terrorists, including a notorious commander, during a raid on a hideout of a proscribed militant organization in the mountainous areas of the district on Sunday. District Police Officer Hangu Asif Bahadur Khan said that terrorists were allegedly involved in various crimes of heinous nature, including kidnapping for ransom, target-killing and others. He said that the police had also seized a significant…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, July 8, 2023 at 9:40 PMThe Ministry of Interior said that nearly 12,000 crimes have taken place across the country in the past year (solar year), and more than 16,000 people have been arrested in connection with these cases. Abdul Matin Qani, the Ministry of Interior’s spokesperson, noted that the number of crimes has significantly decreased nationwide. “In the past 1401 solar year, 11,800 crimes occurred, and 16,600 criminals were…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, June 24, 2023 Those operating pyramid schemes often target particular geographical locations where the financial literacy of the people is low, police spokesman, SSP Nihal Thalduwa says. He said that the CID had recently busted a pyramid scheme called Sports Chain, through which peolpe had been cheated out of Rs 15 billion, and arrested eight people. “This scheme was carried out in Anuradhapura, Polonnaruwa and Kurunegala, and then it…
report in Daily Times, June 19, 2023The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab , during an operation Dera Ghazi Khan arrested an alleged terrorist of a banned outfit. According to the spokesman, the CTD Dera Ghazi Khan received information from a reliable source that a terrorist of the banned organization Baloch Liberation Army, Mohammad Rashid Bashmani, shared controversial content against government and law enforcement agencies through social media. The team of CTD police station Sader reached the…
report in Dawn, June 18th, 2023LAHORE: Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested six alleged militants of banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. According to a spokesman, the Punjab CTD conducted 55 intelligence based operations (IBOs) in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any incident of terrorism, interrogating 50 suspects and arresting six alleged militants with weapons, explosives and other prohibited materials. He says those arrested…