Suspected robber dies by suicide to avoid arrest in Karachi: police – Pakistan

KARACHI: A suspected thief died by suicide to avoid arrest during an office-cum-house robbery on Khalid Bin Waleed Road near Tariq Road in PECHS early Saturday morning, officials said. Ferozabad police Station House Officer (SHO) Adeel Afzal said the suspect had entered the office of a travel agency located within a bungalow with the intention […]

Reimagining police stations – Newspaper

POLICE stations are seen as a state’s physical and operational manifestation, where victims must feel the state’s protective presence. They must function as ‘shock therapy’ centres, a frontline service and protectors of human liberties. In the age of technology, are more police stations needed in districts, or can existing ones be supplemented by e-police stations? […]

Newly married couple shot dead in Karachi’s Malir area: police – Pakistan

A newly married couple was shot dead in Karachi’s Malir area soon after appearing before a local court on Monday, according to a senior police official. According to Korangi Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Fida Hussain Janwari, the couple was returning from the court when assailants, who were chasing their car, opened fire on them […]

Outrage in Spain after police beat Gaza flotilla activists – World

MADRID: Around two thousand protesters took to the streets of the Spanish city of Bilbao on Sunday to condemn the Basque police’s treatment of activists from a Gaza aid flotilla on their return from detention in Israel. When a relative of one of the six returning activists tried to approach them at Bilbao airport on […]

Heavy fighting underway between police, militants in KP’s Bannu – Pakistan

BANNU: Casualties were reported on Saturday morning as heavy fighting was underway between a police peace committee and militants in the Barakzai Akhundkhel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district. Medical Teaching Institution Bannu spokesperson, Mohammad Nauman Khattab, said “three injured policemen and a martyr were brought” to the District Headquarters Hospital. The deceased was said […]

Police get three-day remand of Pinky in 10 ‘old’ drug cases – Pakistan

KARACHI: A court on Tuesday remanded suspected cocaine dealer Anmol alias Pinky in police custody for three more days in connection with her involvement in various drug cases. She was brought to the Judicial Complex inside the Karachi central prison amid tight security. Media was barred from entering the complex. The investigating officers of around […]

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