Report in Dawn, Sept 13th, 2023QUETTA: Four people, including two policemen, were injured in two hand grenade attacks on police vehicles on Tuesday. Officials said unknown miscreants riding motorcycles hurled a grenade at a patrolling police vehicle in the Sariab Road area. However, it missed the target and exploded away from the vehicle. Police personnel travelling in the vehicle remained safe, but two passers-by, identified as Niazullah and Karim Nawaz, were injured in the grenade…
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report in TOLOnews, Sept 11, 2023 at 10:11 PMIn the wake of rising tensions between Kabul and Islamabad, Afghan refugees in Pakistan complained about mistreatment by the county’s police. An official of the Afghan Refugee Council in Pakistan said that the Pakistani police have arbitrarily detained 100 Afghan refugees in Karachi. “They have imposed heavy fines. They have taken actions under the pretext of illegal migration. This is a major concern,” said Mir Ahmad Rauf,…
Report in Dawn, Sept 6th, 2023LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court on Tuesday denied Sarwar Road police further physical remand of PTI women including fashion designer Khadija Shah, Sanam Javed, Tayyaba Ambreen, former MNA Alia Hamza and 77 other suspects in the corps commander house attack case. The investigating officer produced the suspects before the court and requested it to extend their physical remand to complete the investigation. However, the defence lawyers opposed further remand, saying nothing…
report in The Express Tribune, September 5th, 2023.FAISALABAD: The desecration of the Holy Quran that sparked communal riots, burning of churches and Christians’ properties at Jaranwala tehsil of Punjab’s Faisalabad district on August 16 was part of a conspiracy hatched by a jealous husband to bring harm to his wife’s alleged lover. Sharing details of the police investigation into the incident, Jaranwala Superintendent Police (SP) Bilal Silhari said P, a Christian man, had discovered that…
by Tariq Saeed in Dawn, September 4th, 2023TOBA TEK SINGH: In the ongoing investigation of the Jaranwala Quran desecration case, one of the arrested suspects has told police that he hired a hitman, Allah Ditta Maseeh, and provided him with money and motorcycle to eliminate his opponent, the main suspect in the desecration incident. When Ditta’s attempt to assassinate the target failed, the suspect devised a plan involving the desecration of the Quran to frame…
report in Dawn, August 27th, 2023KURRAM: Two police personnel were wounded after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a police vehicle, followed by an exchange of fire between suspected militants and the police on Saturday. Station House Officer Sadda Khalil Khan reported that a police van was patrolling in the area when the IED went off. He added that two police personnel, Habibur Rehman and Zakir Masozai, sustained injuries. “After the explosion, the police…
by Rana Yasif in The Express Tribune, Aug 27, 2023LAHORE: The Christian community moved the Lahore High Court (LHC) on Saturday against being pressurised by police officials to reach a compromise in the Jaranwala rampage case, requesting for a judicial inquiry committee to be formed to fairly investigate the incident. In a petition filed through advocate Shahbaz Fazal Saroya, petitioner Peter Charles, chairman of Grace Bible Fellowship Church Pakistan, also informed the court of the…
report in Dawn, August 26th, 2023BAJAUR: Two people, including son of a tribal elder of Mamond tehsil, were injured when an improvised explosive device went off here on Friday evening, the police and local residents said. They said that the explosion occurred near Larkholozo Hospital. The residents said Hijad Ali, son of elder Malik Sultan Zeb, along with some friends and relatives was returning home in Larkholozo town from a nearby playground when the IED…
Report in Dawn, August 25th, 2023PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have formed special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams to fight militancy amid growing attacks. The initiative comes as the police department analysed the security situation and found out that two-thirds of the nationwide militant attacks took place in KP, according to a senior official. “Our [police] analysis reveals that around 70 per cent of militant attacks have been carried out against us. A total of…
Editorial in Pakistan Today, August 17th, 2023The attack on three churches and a number of homes by a mob in Jaranwala, indicates that matters which had seemed to have gone out of control, have not improved. Once again, a mob has been inflamed to violence by a cleric’s diatribe against an alleged blasphemer. After the situation calmed somewhat, it transpired that the accused had been taken into custody by the police, that one church had…
report in Dawn, August 22nd, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A levy police personnel was martyred when unknown armed men opened fire on him here on Monday. Police said the incident occurred in Gul Waliabad locality in the area limits of the city police station. They said that levy policeman Jehanzeb Khan, 39, came under fire when he was going to bazaar on his motorcycle for shopping. “The attackers also took away his motorcycle,” they maintained. Moeenuddin, father…