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IHC won’t bar authorities from arresting Imran

report in The Express Tribune, Sept 15th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has turned down a request to order authorities not to arrest PTI chief Imran Khan in any pending case, stating that it does not want to set such a precedent. A division bench of the high court, led by Chief Justice Aamer Farooq and comprising Justice Tariq Mehmood Jahangiri, resumed hearing the PTI chairman’s petition against the cancellation of his pre-arrest bail…

CTD foils major terror plot during operations in Punjab

report in The News, Sept 05, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has foiled a major terror plot in the province by arresting seven suspected terrorists linked with banned outfits during operations in different areas of Punjab. According to the spokesperson, the CTD Punjab conducted 49 intelligence-based operations in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any untoward incident of terrorism, in which 49 suspected persons were interrogated and 7 alleged terrorists were…

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LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) has provided an in-depth account of its ruling regarding an appeal filed by the Punjab caretaker government against a prior LHC directive that prohibited authorities from arresting former Punjab Chief Minister Parvez Elahi in undisclosed cases. On August 21, a division bench of the LHC, presided over by Justice Muhammad Waheed Khan, dismissed the Punjab government’s intra-court appeal. The authorities had submitted the appeal in response to a single-judge…

Two ‘TTP facilitators’ held

report in The News, June 15, 2023The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday claimed arresting two operatives of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan on charges of raising funds for the outfit. The spokesman for the Sindh CTD said the CTD team arrested Fazlur Rehman, son of Muhammad Ismail Ashrafzai, while conducting the first operation in New Karachi Industrial Area and Rahim Afridi, son of Yar Badshah, in the second operation carried out in the Shershah police station…

Two ‘TTP men’ arrested in raid

Report in The News, April 27, 2023Personnel of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) claimed arresting two militants of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on murder and extortion charges in a raid in Baloch Colony on Wednesday. Police officials said the suspects, identified as Muhammad Kamal Khan and Abdul Qadir, murdered a person in Karachi on suspicion of providing information of the TTP in Afghanistan to a US agency. The two were alleged to be the…

Two ‘militants’ held with explosives, in Charsadda

Report in Dawn, March 9th, 2023CHARSADDA: The Shabqadar police foiled a sabotage attempt by arresting two suspected militants during a search operation here on Wednesday. The police also recovered explosives, grenades and mortar shells from their possession. Officials said a patrolling party of Shabqadar police station led by SHO Dawood Khan spotted two suspects entering the Fatimakhel cemetery. They said one of the persons was carrying a white plastic bag. They said police stopped the…

Govt sends letters to foreign missions over arrest of Fakhrul, Abbas, Naya Paltan incident

report in Prothom Alo, Dec 13 2022The government has sent letters to the foreign missions in Dhaka explaining the reasons of arresting opposition BNP Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir and its standing committee member Mirza Abbas. The letter also explained the reasons of the clash between police and the leaders and activists of opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party in front of the party’s headquarters at Naya Paltan in the capital on 7 December. The letters…