KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) on Thursday rejected the bail pleas of two policemen; involved in the murder case of Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud. According to the report, former senior superintendent of police (SSP), Rao Anwar; along with other policemen involved in the case; appeared before the court for the hearing. The bail pleas of […]
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported 2,297 cases of violence against women from 25 districts between January and December 2020, according to a recent report by the Aurat Foundation. This number is despite the challenge of under-reporting because of the coronavirus pandemic. The data shows that at the peak of the pandemic in July, cases of violence against […]
A man allegedly committed suicide after killing his two mentally and physically challenged daughters in Sanda area here on Wednesday. Zia Butt, 70, first allegedly slit the throats of his daughters Sadia (34) and Aqsa (31) and then injured his neck with the same weapon. Police investigators claimed that Butt killed his daughters out of […]
A police constable shot dead a man while trying to flee after killing a woman; also a murder suspect, who took to the orthopedic ward of the KDA; Teaching Hospital here in police custody. SHO KDA police station Saifullah Khan told that Shamoon, a proclaimed offender wanted in a murder case; said he came from […]
In an appalling development reported Tuesday from Punjab’s Sargodha district to agitate the last vestige of humanity, a landlord allegedly sexually abused and murdered an eight-year-old girl. According to the local police, the heinous act took place in Qasba Lalliani area, in the suburbs of Bhalwal, where the body of the minor was recovered from. […]
The security guard of a bank shot dead its manager, alleging that the latter had committed blasphemy. Police sources and a government official said the blasphemy accusation was fabricated and the murder had been based on personal enmity. However the incident took place in Khushab’s Tehsil Quaidabad on Wednesday; where Ahmad Nawaz, a security guard […]
The people of Lower Dir staged a protest demonstration against the murder of a two-year-old girl and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits. Meanwhile, Police registered a case against unknown persons and arrested 10 suspects on Wednesday. Moreover, the protesters set a three-day deadline for the arrest of the culprits; otherwise, they would block the […]
Pakistan has called for a transparent judicial inquiry under international scrutiny into the extrajudicial killing of three innocent Kashmiris two months ago in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir. In a statement, Foreign Office Spokesperson Zahid Hafeez said the Indian occupation forces had martyred twenty-five-year-old Imtiyaz Ahmed, twenty-year-old Mohammad Ibrar, and sixteen-year-old Abrar Ahmed in […]
