Trigger happy: Man shot after parking dispute outside café
A man was injured on Tuesday after a parking dispute escalated outside a tea shop, Chai Shai, in Defence Housing Authority (DHA) on Tuesday night. According to eye-witnesses, a brawl broke out when one...
View ArticleArmy chief calls for inquiry into Aftab Ahmed’s death as Rangers suspend...
KARACHI: Army chief General Raheel Sharif ordered on Wednesday an inquiry into the death of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) leader Farooq Sattar’s aide in Rangers’ custody. “[The] COAS has directed to...
View ArticleDr Sattar’s aide dies in Rangers custody
KARACHI: An aide of MQM’s senior leader Dr Farooq Sattar died in Rangers custody on Tuesday within 48 hours of his detention by the paramilitary force. The MQM worker was reportedly picked up from his...
View ArticleExtension in Rangers’ policing powers awaits Sindh CM’s nod
KARACHI: A summary of extension in special powers for the Pakistan Rangers has been facing a delay on the grounds that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah is out of Karachi, sources say. The...
View ArticleMilitant killed, three policemen injured in Karachi raid
KARACHI: A militant was killed while three police personnel injured in an exchange of fire in the Pirabad neighbourhood of Karachi on Saturday. According to assistant sub-inspector, Aftab, of Pirabad...
View ArticleNo top PPP leader in Uzair’s JIT report
KARACHI: One of the central figures in Lyari’s criminal syndicate Uzair Baloch has named up to 45 people as his accomplices in his reign of terror. In none of his confessions, however, is there any...
View ArticleA matter of ‘honour’: Young man remanded into police custody for killing sister
KARACHI: A judicial magistrate remanded on Thursday a young man, who murdered his teenage sister for ‘honour’, into police custody for four days. Hayat stabbed Sumera multiple times after beating her...
View ArticleUzair Baloch’s 90-day remand ends tomorrow
KARACHI: As many as 61 suspects, mostly belonging to the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), arrested for their alleged involvement in targeted killings, extortion, china-cutting and terror financing, are...
View ArticleRangers arrest teacher selling ‘leaked exam papers’
KARACHI: Sindh Rangers rounded up on Friday a government schoolteacher from Karachi’s Baldia Town for allegedly selling leaked exam papers at his private photocopy shop. “Rangers carried out an...
View ArticleGen Raheel assures Sindh police of support
Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday assured the Sindh police of the military’s all-out support for eliminating terrorism from the province. He contacted Sindh IGP AD Khawaja a day after seven...
View ArticleArmy will support Sindh Police in all aspects: General Raheel
KARACHI: Army chief General Raheel Sharif on Thursday assured the Sindh police of Pakistan Army’s support in the civilian force’s efforts towards eliminating terrorism from the province. “In his...
View ArticleBrazen attack: Seven policemen killed in Karachi assault
KARACHI / MOHMAND: In two brazen attacks, armed terrorists on Wednesday gunned down seven policemen including three deployed for security of a polio vaccination team in Karachi’s suburban Orangi Town...
View ArticleGone too soon: Coffins engulf kids awaiting new uniforms
KARACHI: Tuesday evening was a regular one at the Sharifuddin household in Orangi Town save for his two daughters, 12-year-old Nimra and 10-year-old Rimsha, who were excited to receive their new...
View ArticleMan arrested for killing three children in Karachi
KARACHI: Less than 24 hours of the heart-wrenching incident, police officials claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a suspect for allegedly killing three children in Karachi, SHO Mominabad Police...
View ArticleSeven policemen guarding polio team gunned down in Karachi
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: At least seven police officials were killed in two separate attacks as unidentified armed men opened fire at them in Karachi’s Orangi Town on Wednesday. The attacks took place...
View ArticleFor embattled police, APCs still not on the horizon
KARACHI: Even before the start of the Karachi operation in 2013, it was a known fact that the Sindh police were under-resourced and ill-equipped to effectively carry out the fight against militants....
View ArticleRetired army major, son attacked in Karachi
KARACHI: A retired major of the Pakistan Army and his son were seriously injured on Monday as unidentified armed men opened fire at their car in Karachi’s Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 13-D. Major (retd)...
View ArticleThey pledged to serve you but may serve you to kidnappers
KARACHI: Every police station in the city will welcome you with the words ‘Police ka hai kaam, khidmat awam ki [The job of the police is to serve the people]‘. Policemen in the city are no doubt...
View ArticleOur goal is terror-free Karachi, says Gen Raheel
KARACHI: Army chief General Raheel Sharif has said that Pakistan’s economic progress hinges on peace in Karachi and that the ultimate aim of the ongoing Rangers-led surgical operation is to make the...
View ArticleDirector NAB Karachi suspended over salon assault case
KARACHI: A day after a Karachi-based salon owner claimed her staff had been assaulted by policemen in civvies sent by a NAB official’s wife, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB) has suspended...
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