Police vehicle attacked as re-polling held in Tank – Pakistan
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Some armed men attacked a police armoured vehicle on security duty at a polling station at Kot-Azam in Tank, triggering an exchange of fire that left one of the attackers dead on Monday. The polling process had to be stopped for some time due to the ambush, though it resumed following a […]
PTI, police face off in several cities amid protests against ‘rigging’ – Pakistan
LADY police officers attempt to pull a woman out of her car during PTI’s protest against alleged election rigging outside its secretariat on Jail Road, on Saturday.—Murtaza Ali / White Star LAHORE: PTI workers and police faced off in multiple cities on Saturday during protests against alleged rigging in the Feb 8 general elections. In […]
Kites battle drones as farmers take on police during India protests – World
Farmers protesting in India this week are using a homemade arsenal to counter the state-of-the-art weaponry of the security forces trying to disperse them: they’re flying kites to ensnare police drones carrying tear gas canisters. For the past two days, thousands of farmers have fought pitched battles with security forces some 200 kilometres north of […]
Indian police blockade capital from protesting farmers – World
Indian riot police fired tear gas on Wednesday at columns of farmers on tractors seeking to breach heavily guarded barricades and march on the capital to demand higher crop prices. Farmers in India this week launched a “Delhi Chalo”, or “March to Delhi”, in an echo of January 2021, when farmers breached barricades and rolled […]
Indian police fire tear gas as protesting farmers march to capital – World
Indian security forces fired tear gas on Tuesday to stop thousands of farmers demanding minimum crop prices from marching on the capital New Delhi after talks with the government failed. Local broadcasters showed thick clouds of tear gas fired to disperse protesters near Ambala, about 200 kilometres north of the capital, with police also dropping […]
Ex-PTI MPA gunned down in Rawalpindi: police – Pakistan
Former PTI MPA Chaudhry Muhammad Adnan was gunned down by unidentified assailants in Rawalpindi, according to the police. Adnan had contested the general elections from Rawalpindi’s NA-57 and PP-19 constituencies. A statement from the Rawalpindi police spokesperson said the incident occurred in the Civil Lines area in front of the city police officer’s (CPO) office. […]
4 cops martyred in attack on police convoy in KP’s DI Khan – Pakistan
At least four police officials were martyred in an attack on a police patrol in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, police said. The incident came as nearly 128 million people across the country cast their votes amid an internet and cellular outage. Earlier in the day, the interior ministry said the decision to block […]
Police shoot dead two ‘terrorists’ outside Istanbul court: minister – World
Turkish police on Tuesday shot dead a man and a woman belonging to a leftist “terrorist” organisation who attacked a security checkpoint outside Istanbul’s main courthouse, injuring six people, officials said. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said the assailants were members of the Revolutionary People’s Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) — a fringe leftist group that has staged […]
Police raids on PTI offices, leaders’ houses continue across Punjab – Pakistan
• Poll office of incarcerated Aaliya Hamza ‘sealed’• Party-affiliated lawyer, his father ‘abducted’• Houses of Javed Hashmi, Qaisara Elahi ‘raided’ LAHORE/GUJRAT: The Punjab police on Monday continued raiding the PTI election offices, as well as houses of the party leaders and supporters, besides allegedly harassing women workers. The PTI alleged that police, as well as […]
IHC bars police from harassing PTI candidates, workers
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) restrained the police on Tuesday from harassing Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) candidates and workers partaking in election activities. The order came just two days before the general elections scheduled for February 8, with a bat-less PTI struggling to run their election campaign due to hindrances and unofficial restrictions. IHC Chief Justice Aamer […]