Report in The Kathmandu Post online, July 12, 2023A protest was organised outside the Kathmandu Metropolitan City office in Sundhara on Wednesday against the municipal police for misbehaving with and manhandling street vendors. The protest was organised by ‘Enough is Enough,’ a youth-led non-violent campaign. The demonstrations came on the heels of a video circulated on social media showing municipal police of the KMC manhandling a vendor. The police action attracted widespread criticism from the…
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Report in Dawn, July 10th, 2023MARDAN: Sub-divisional police officer (SDPO), Katlang tehsil, Farooq Zaman Khan sustained serious bullet injuries when unknown miscreants opened indiscriminate fire on his car near Ghundo police post here on Saturday night. An FIR registered by the officials of Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) quoted constable, Shayan Hasan, the gunman of the injured SDPO, as saying that they were on their way to Baizai police station when unidentified terrorists opened fire on their…
by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee/Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, July 10, 2023As the BNP and 35 other like-minded parties are set to launch a one-point movement to oust the government, the Police Headquarters is collecting data on all the cases against opposition activists and leaders. The headquarters is gathering information about those who faced charges of arson, killing of police members, crimes against humanity, and other serious crimes in 2013 and later. The initiative…
report in Dawn, July 9th, 2023QUETTA: Unknown attackers gunned down a tribal elder and injured two others in the city on Saturday, according to the police. The police said armed men opened fire on Lala Zahir Khan Dummar when he was passing through the Double Road area. He died on the spot while his two friends were injured. The police shifted the body and injured to the Civil Hospital. The deceased sustained multiple bullet injuries,…
report in Dawn, June 28th, 2023LOWER DIR: The police claimed to have recovered five suicide jackets, explosives, grenades, eatables and military uniforms with Afghanistan labels from a mountain in Shago Kas area here the other day, senior officials said. Briefing journalists here, Lower Dir district police officer Ziauddin and SP Counter-Terrorism Department Amjad Khan said the suicide vests and explosives were recovered during a search and strike operation conducted on a tip-off. The officials said…
report in The News, June 26, 2023PESHAWAR: A police constable was shot and injured at Khan Mast Colony in the limits of the Agha Mir Jani Shah (formerly Yakatoot) police station on Sunday. The police said constable Farman performs duty at the University Town police station. He was on leave and travelling in a car when armed men opened fire on his car. The attackers escaped after the firing. The senior police officials and investigation…
By Sarfaraz Khan in The News, June 25, 2023BISHAM: The local residents and police aborted a planned attack on the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) leader and Adviser to Prime Minister on Political and Public Affairs Amir Muqam in Kuknar area in Martung Tehsil of Shangla district on Saturday. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed that they had planted an improvised explosive device to target the convoy of Amir Muqam but that did not explode due to a…
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…
By Nishan Khatiwada in The Kathmandu Post, June 16, 2023Mother and father Nepali, where are we from?So read one of the placards that a group of youths displayed during a demonstration in Kathmandu on Tuesday. They were up in arms demanding a speedy implementation of the recently-endorsed bill to amend the Citizenship Act. The protest took an unfortunate turn when one of the protesters, Niraj Kumar Kamat from Katahari, Morang, attempted to set himself on…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, June 15th, 2023QUETTA: Four suspected terrorists, including a ringleader, were killed in an exchange of fire during an operation conducted by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police in the Gohri Kaul area, close to the Pak-Afghan border, on Wednesday. Arms and ammunition, including a suicide jacket, were seized during the operation, according to a CTD statement. It explained that a suspect in custody, Ali Mohammad alias Chhota Qari, during the…