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Unknown assailants attack policemen deployed outside PTI’s Insaf House in Karachi

report in The News online, Oct4, 2023At least 20 to 25 unknown assailants attacked the police personnel stationed outside the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s (PTI) Karachi headquarters, Insaf House, police said on Wednesday. The attackers tore the uniforms of the policemen and also attempted to seize weapons from them, the police told Geo News. They, according to the police, pelted stones at the officers and vandalised their patrol vehicles. When more personnel arrived at the scene, the…

Caste-based discrimination rife in Doti

by Mohan Shahi in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 12, 2023Sarita Dayali, has been buying milk from a restaurant nearby ever since the milkman refused to sell her milk a couple of years ago. Dayali is from the Dalit community and is the district chief of the Feminist Dalit Organisation in Silgadhi, the district headquarters of Doti. Dayali, a mother of two children, has been living in the district headquarters for almost a decade. Although she…

BNP to launch one-point demand to oust govt on Wednesday

report in Prothom Alo, Jul 10, 2023Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) would make an announcement of one-point demand to oust the government from a rally in front of the party’s Naya Paltan headquarters in Dhaka on Wednesday (12 July). The party has sought a permission from the police to hold the rally. Different alliances and parties that are also waging simultaneous movement with the de facto opposition will also make the announcement of the one-point…

Some SDIGs revolt against controversial transfers

report in The Island, Apr 27, 2023Two of the seven Senior DIGs suddenly transferred by police headquarters have refused to abide by the directive, demanding the immediate intervention of the National Police Commission (NPC). Retired IGP Chandra Fernando heads the NPC. The senior officers transferred with effect from 25 April, included Lalith Pathinayake, Ajith Rohana, S.C. Medawatte and W.K. Jayalath on what police headquarters called, service requirements. Senior DIG of the Southern Province Ajith Rohana,…

Police checkposts set up at Wana’s entry, exit points

Report in Dawn, January 14th, 2023SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Police established security checkposts at the entry and exit points of Wana, the headquarters of South Waziristan Lower district, on Friday. District police officer Shabbir Hussain Marwat told the locals that the checkposts were established in order to maintain law and order situation in the area. He said that protection of the local population was top priority of the government. “There will be no compromise on security of…

by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, December 20th, 2022

KHUZDAR: Twenty people were injured, some of them seriously, in two bomb explosions which took place, with a small interval, in Khuzdar — the divisional headquarters of Kalat division — on Monday evening. Seven people were injured when the first bomb, planted in a motorcycle parked in the busy shopping area of Umar Farooq Chowk, exploded, police said. Police investigators believed it was a remote-controlled bomb. As soon as police personnel and people rushed to…