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Iran arrests three on ‘Mossad Espionage’ charges with Taliban cooperation:

By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 5, 2023Iran’s IRNA news agency has reported that the Ministry of Intelligence of the country, in collaboration with the Taliban administration, has apprehended three Israeli intelligence operatives (Mossad) who were planning to launch suicide drones towards Iran at the Afghanistan-Iran border. This Iranian media outlet reported the detention of these three individuals on Sunday and added that the detained individuals have been transferred to Iran. According…

Over 200 people in jail in blasphemy cases throughout country, Senate body told

by Jamal Shahid in Dawn, Oct 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A parliamentary body on Friday was informed that 215 individuals had been arrested under blasphemy charges with the highest number of arrests made in Sindh, which was 78. A significant session of the Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights took place at the Parliament House, which was presided over by Senator Walid Iqbal. The committee addressed multiple pressing issues, including the blasphemous act in Jaranwala, which led…

Ex-ministers among 238 on CIB list for land scam prosecution

by Prithvi Man Shrestha & Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 23, 2023Police on Tuesday recommended prosecuting 238 people including former ministers, senior bureaucrats and middlemen in the infamous Lalita Niwas land grab scam on charges of organised crime and forgery of government documents. The Central Investigation Bureau (CIB) of Nepal Police submitted its investigation report to the District Attorney’s Office Kathmandu, which will now decide how many of them will be prosecuted. The…

Faridpur Racket Laundering Tk 2,000Cr: CID presses charges against 37 more

by Chaitanya Chandra Halder, Shariful Islam in The Daily Star, June 26, 2023The Criminal Investigation Department has found involvement of 37 more people in the much-talked about Tk 2,000 crore money laundering racket of Faridpur. The newly identified suspects include current and former leaders of the ruling Awami League in the district. The case was originally filed by the CID with Kafrul Police Station in June 2020 against Sajjad Hossain Barkat and his brother Imtiaz…

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…

PTI chief cleared of terrorism charges in 2014 sit-in case

by Malik Asad in Dawn, February 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) cleared former prime minister Imran Khan of terrorism charges on Monday, removing sections of the terror law from two first information reports (FIRs) against him and other leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) related to the 2014 sit-in. Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan remanded the case to the sessions court. The Secretariat police station had registered FIRs over the violence during the sit-in.…