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Militants target check post in North Waziristan
Posted: 26 May 2011 06:00
AM PDT
A blast was heard
on Thursday in the main town of Pakistan’s North Waziristan region on the
Afghan border and casualties were feared, media and residents said.

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Lahore: Rs 3 million looted from UBL
Posted: 26 May 2011 05:50
AM PDT
Four armed
dacoits stormed into United Bank Limited (UBL) Iqbal Town branch on Wednesday
and looted Rs 3 million from there.

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Lahore: FIA offloads two with fake documents
Posted: 26 May 2011 05:45
AM PDT
The Federal
Investigation Agency’s immigration staff deputed at Allama Iqbal
International Airport on Wednesday offloaded two passengers were to go to
Paris allegedly on fake documents.

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Lahore: Gang of car lifters busted; 33 cars recovered
Posted: 26 May 2011 05:40
AM PDT
Staff of an
Anti-Vehicle Lifting of Model Town Division have arrested three car lifters
of Zakir alias Razzaq Machi gang and recovered 33 cars worth Rs 16.4 million
from their possession.

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Suicide bomber hits CID building in Peshawar
Posted: 26 May 2011 05:30
AM PDT
Seven police
commandos and a Pakistan Army soldier were killed and 46 others injured when
a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a police station of
the Criminal Investigation Department (CID) on the University Road early
Wednesday.

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4 employees injured by Illegal hunters in Cholistan
Posted: 26 May 2011 05:28
AM PDT
Four employees of
the Wildlife Department were injured after their vehicle overturned due to
the firing of illegal hunters in Cholistan here on Tuesday night.

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Islamabad: Fraudulent Internet lotteries
Posted: 26 May 2011 04:16
AM PDT
Senior Civil
Judge Muhammad Aslam Gondal Wednesday handed down a three-day physical remand
to a man accused of defrauding people of millions of dollars and handed him
over to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA).

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Vehari: Police smash criminal gang
Posted: 26 May 2011 04:15
AM PDT
The district
police arrested notorious criminals during a crackdown launched on
anti-social elements in the district.

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Chakwal: 3 gamblers arrested
Posted: 26 May 2011 04:15
AM PDT
Three gamblers
were nabbed by City Police as others two managed to escape. Sub-inspector
Sohaib Hayat, on a tip off, arrested Muhammad Farooq, Munir Ahmad and Ghulam
Murtaza and recovered cash and two mobile telephones.

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Chakwal: 2 women booked for threatening lawyer
Posted: 26 May 2011 04:14
AM PDT
On a court order,
a woman and her daughter were booked for threatening a lawyer. Talat Mehmood
told the court that he had filed a case against accused Sher Bano and when he
came out of the District Courts, Sher Bano and her daughter Umal-Baneen
threatened him of dire consequences.

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Karachi: ‘Quack’ held for deaths
Posted: 26 May 2011 04:12
AM PDT
The Landhi police
on Wednesday arrested a fake doctor wanted for killing three patients, police
said. Landhi SHO Inspector Mazher Awan raided and arrested Masoodur Rehman
alias Doctor General.

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Taxila: Abduction bid foiled
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:55
AM PDT
A teenaged girl
foiled bid to abduct her in Wah Cantonment on Wednesday.

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Chakwal: 4 fraudsters booked
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:54
AM PDT
Four fraudsters
including a woman were booked for selling fake gold coins to a trader.
Zulfiqar Haider told the court that Yaseen, Sattar, Sharif and Haleema Bibi
sold him gold coins and got Rs 1.2 million in return.

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Vehari: Officials booked
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:53
AM PDT
The
Anti-Corruption Establishment has registered cases against Vehari Tehsildar
Ammar Khan Khichi, Assistant Local Government Director Malik Faiz Bakhsh,
Engineer Ameer Hussain, Sub Engineer Tariq Habib and scores of sub engineers
for preparing fake documents, tampering with government record and taking
Rs600,000 in bribe.

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Hafizabad: Student held for using unfair means
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:53
AM PDT
Kalek Mandi
Police arrested a student on charge of using unfair means in his FA exams. A
case was registered against him.

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Karachi: Bandit killed in encounter, another flees
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:52
AM PDT
A bandit was
killed during an encounter in the remits of Jamshed Quarter police station
here on Wednesday. Two armed bandits tried to loot valuables from passers on
Jamshed Road when police reached.

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RY Khan: PTCL cable whisked away
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:52
AM PDT
Unidentified
thieves took away 600 metre long PTCL cable here the other day. Talking to
journalists, PTCL Assistant Business Manger Sohail Anwar said that some
unidentified thieves entered in the PTCL manhole near Railway under pass last
night.

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Taxila: Thieves steal transformer
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:51
AM PDT
A 100-KV
transformer near Bhattar intersection area was stolen by unknown thieves
taking advantage of loadshedding at night in the limits of Wah Cantonment
police station. It has been learnt that power supply was disconnected to
Bhattar intersection. The people were of the impression that it was part of
routine load shedding.

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Lahore: TV anchor, co-accused granted bail
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:51
AM PDT
Additional
District and Sessions Judge Abdul Hasnaat Zulqarnain on Wednesday granted
bail to a TV anchor and two co-accused in a murder case after the family of
the deceased agreed to a Rs2 million diyat settlement.

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Woman gang-raped in Tara Garh village
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:51
AM PDT
A woman was
gang-raped at the instigation of her husband at Tara Garh village. Nasreen
Bibi was married to Jahangir Ahmad sometime back.

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Rawalpindi: 4 kiosks razed in drive against
encroachment
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:50
AM PDT
The Rawal Town
Municipal Administration (RTMA) on Wednesday launched an operation against
encroachments in the city and razed four kiosks besides seizing goods
displayed in front of shops.

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4 persons killed in Nowshera incidents
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:49
AM PDT
Four persons were
killed in separate incidents in the district on Wednesday, police said.
Akhtar Bibi told police that she along with her husband and son was on her
way to brother-in-law’s home when Naeemzada, Asfandyar and Saadullah
allegedly opened fire on them in Kotarpan village. Shad Muhammad was killed
on the spot

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Lahore: 45-yr-old man body found in Model Town
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:48
AM PDT
Faisal Town
police found the body of a 45-year-old man in a sack lying along the wall of
a house in C-Block of Model Town Extension.

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Bullet-riddled body found from Khuzdar district
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:48
AM PDT
Another
bullet-riddled body was found from Gazgi in Khuzdar district on Wednesday.
Police recovered the body from Gazgi area of Khuzdar district, after a
passerby spotted it and informed police, an official said.

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4 killed in Kurram clashes
Posted: 26 May 2011 03:47
AM PDT
Four persons were
killed and 18 others sustained injuries in fresh clashes between the Turi,
Bangash and other tribes in Balishkhel in Kurram Agency on Wednesday, tribal
sources said.

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