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Police detain 20 protesters as Turbat long march reaches DG Khan

by Tariq Saeed Birmani | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 18th, 2023DERA GHAZI KHAN/QUETTA: Police conducted a crackdown and detained “at least 20 participants, including women”, who joined the long march against the alleged “extra-judicial killings” by the Counter Terro­rism Depart­ment (CTD) in Turbat, Balochistan, as it entered the city on Sunday. According to details, the long march of the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC), led by Mohammad Asif Laghari and originating from Balochistan, was intercepted…

Complaints of Afghan Refugees Mistreated by Pakistani Police

REPORT IN TOLOnews, DEC 14, 2023 at 10:21 PMSeveral legal Afghan refugees in Pakistan complained about the continued misbehavior of the Pakistani police. According to their accounts, even though they have legal documents for staying in the country, the police harass them. They want the Islamic Emirate to pay serious attention to their issue. “They are harassed a lot when they go out or want to do their work, some of them are harassed by…

Unit set up to probe religious offences made on social media

report in Ceylon Today, DEc 14, 2023In response to the growing concerns over religious offences propagated on social media networks, a dedicated unit has been set up to investigate such incidents, Sri Lanka Police said yesterday (13). … Police Spokesperson SSP Nihal Thalduwa said, “The Acting IGP has issued orders to the Computer Crime Investigation Division (CCID) to set up a specialised unit to receive and investigate complaints related to religious offences committed through social…

Heavy security deployment to quell CTD ‘killing’ protests

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 12th, 2023QUETTA: The local administration deployed a heavy contingent of police and other security forces, sealing the red zone area of the provincial capital on Monday evening before the arrival of the long march participants protesting against the killing of Balaach Mola Bakhsh in the CTD encounter in Turbat. Hundreds of people, including family members of Mr Balaach and women, reached Mastung town on Monday. The local administration placed…

CTD SHO martyred in magnetic-bomb explosion in Balochistan’s Khuzdar

report in The Nation, Dec 11, 2023QUETTA – The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Counter Terrorism Depart­ment (CTD) Murad Jamot was mar­tyred and two others injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan’s Khuz­dar district on Sunday. Police said a magnetic bomb was exploded on Jamot’s vehicle when he was going to office near the Sultan Ibrahim Road in Khuzdar area. According to police sources, the nature of the explosion was a magnetic bomb and…

Women police officers mistreated when granting promotions: Committee reveals

By Ajith Sirwardana in Daily Mirror, Dec 11, 2023Parliament, Dec. 10:: Women police officers have faced injustice when receiving promotions even though all the other aspects such as recruitment, training, deployment and retirement are the same as male police officers, a Parliamentary committee has revealed. This was disclosed when the Select Committee of Parliament to look into and report its recommendations to ensure gender equity and equality with special emphasis on looking into gender-based discriminations…

Interpol approached for Shahzad Akbar’s arrest:

By Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 9th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The capital police approached Interpol for assistance in the arrest of former adviser to the prime minister on interior and accountability, Mirza Shahzad Akbar, in a case registered against him at Secretariat police station under various criminal charges, police sources said on Friday. Sources said the investigators of the case, registered under sections 420, 468, 471, 385, 396, 389, 500 and 506 of Pakistan Penal Code, made…

2023 sees 243 attacks on KP police: CTD data

By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, Dec 09, 2023PESHAWAR: As many as 243 attacks were carried out on police force in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during the current year, with 46 happening alone in Dera Ismail Khan district. According to the statistics collected by the Counter-Terrorism Department, after DI Khan most attacks on police, 37, were reported in Peshawar and 31 in Khyber district during the current year. Over 100 policemen were martyred alone in Peshawar…

ASWJ man shot at, wounded in ‘targeted attack’ in Karachi

Report in Dawn, December 6th, 2023KARACHI: A local leader of the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot at and wounded in New Karachi on Tuesday evening, police and his party said. The police said that Bilal Murshid, 30, was targeted by armed assailants riding a motorbike in the Godhra area in Sector 11-G. He suffered five bullet wounds and was taken first to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from where he was moved to…

PML-N leader among four killed in Islamabad

by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 6th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Four persons, including a local PML-N leader, were killed in an ambush in the rural area of the capital on Tuesday, the police said. According to a preliminary investigation, Syed Abrar Shah, the former Union Council chairman Jhang, was travelling in a white SUV when armed men opened indiscriminate fire at his vehicle in the Shahzad Town area. The assailants, armed with sophisticated weapons, were lying in…

PM Dahal pledges to conclude adjustment process in police very soon:

By Rastriya Samachar Samiti in Nepal News, Nov 29, 2023Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ pledged that the federal government would conclude adjustment process of police service at the earliest. According to Bagmati Province’s Minister for Internal Affairs and Law Ganga Narayan Shrestha, PM Dahal in a group meeting with Home Ministers of all seven provinces in the official residence of Prime Minister at Baluwatar, Kathmandu on Tuesday appraised that the adjustment process for police…