report in Dawn, March 8th, 2023PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have established the Counter Terrorist Financing Unit (CTFU) to “reduce and investigate” the growing cases of extortion to finance terrorist activities. “Extortion is taking place at a huge scale. This was a low priority area. There was confusion on who would deal with it in the first place,” KP Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Khan told Dawn about the initiative. A standing order issued…
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by Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Mar 8, 2023Following a meeting with Government Printer Gangani Liyanage, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Chandana D. Wickramaratne, and other relevant authorities, in which Secretary to the Treasury and Finance Ministry Mahinda Siriwardana was absent, the Election Commission (EC) has decided 25 April 2023, as the new date to conduct the Local Government poll, in keeping with the Supreme Court’s (SC) recent and related order. Speaking to The Daily…
report in Dawn, March 7th, 2023PESHAWAR: Two police posts came under attack when militants lobbed grenades at them in Malazai and Jabba Masjid areas of the provincial capital on Monday, the officials said. They said the first incident took place in the jurisdiction of Regi police station when unknown militants hurled a grenade, which fell in an open area around the Malazai police post. There were no casualties in the attack. Militants also lobbed a…
report in Dawn, March 7th, 2023KOHAT: A sub-divisional officer of the Military Engineering Services (MES) was gunned down outside a mosque in the posh KDA Township here on Monday, the police said. They said the deceased, Inamullah Khattak, had come to his home in Kohat on leave from Quetta. They said his body was shifted to the KDA Teaching Hospital for postmortem, and then handed over to relatives for burial. Shaista Begum, wife of the…
By Javed Aziz Khann in The News, March 6th, 2023PESHAWAR: A police post in Mulazai in the limits of Regi police station was attacked with a hand grenade on late Sunday night. The deputy superintendent of police of the area, Fida Hussain, told reporters that no casualty was reported when militants hurled a grenade at the Mulazai police post on the outskirts of Peshawar. He said the bomb disposal experts have been called to examine…
report in EconomyNext online, March 4, 2023 at 3:30 pmPolice have asked the Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka for guidelines on dealing with ever increasing protests and public demonstrations in a bid to address allegations of excesses and violations of personal freedoms. Police chief C. D. Wickramaratne in a seven-page letter to the Commission on Friday outlined four scenarios when police officers are required to deal with both peaceful crowds and violent mobs and…
Report in Dawn, March 4th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A group of people armed with weapons, axes and batons attacked and injured a police team at the Supreme Court Housing Society, police said on Friday. The injured were identified as station house officer (SHO) Shahzad Town Sub-inspector Mohammad Azeem, Assistant Sub-inspector Zafar Iqbal and constable Ghulam Mustafa. Over the incident, a case was registered at the Shahzad Town police station against 16 people, including three women. According to…
report in Dawn, March 4th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A facilitator of the suicide bombers was killed and two suspected militants were arrested during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out by the security forces in Mirali tehsil here on Friday, the police said. According to senior police officials, the IBO was carried out following information on the presence of the militants. They said that an exchange of fire took place between the security forces and the militants,…
Edit in Business Recorder, Mar 1, 2023During the recent months TTP terrorists have focused on targeting the police. In the latest incident last Saturday in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, two police officers were martyred and two others critically injured when a bomb attached to their vehicle went off. The same day, a police patrol came under attack in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), causing injuries to four. This has been going on not only…
Report in Dawn, February 27th, 2023KARACHI: An educationist, who is also a senior office-bearer of a private schools association, was gunned down in what police described as a ‘targeted attack’ in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Sunday evening. Victim Syed Khalid Raza, 55, was the deputy director of the Darul Arqam Schools, Karachi region. He was also the vice chairman of the Federation of Private Schools Pakistan. The police said that the incident took place at Gulistan-i-Jauhar Block-7…