7 al-Qaeda suspects held in Karachi
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:45 AM PDT
Intelligence agencies, in raids in Korangi and Shah Faisal Colony, have arrested seven suspects alleged to be members of al-Qaeda for their involvement in the PNS Mehran attack case.
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Karachi: NAB arrests bank cashier
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:40 AM PDT
The National Accountability Bureau (NAB), Sindh, arrested a cashier on the National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) for misappropriation on Thursday.
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Larkana: PML-Q leader held on kidnapping charge
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:35 AM PDT
The divisional chairperson of the Pakistan Muslim League (Q)’s women wing, Aaliya Rizvi, has formally been arrested on Friday allegedly for kidnapping a young girl.
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Karachi: Hashish worth Rs 1.5m seized
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:30 AM PDT
A team of excise and taxation police seized 16 kgs hashish worth over Rs 1.5 million from a bus in a raid here on Friday.
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18 militants killed in Orakzai, eight in Kurram
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:08 AM PDT
Eighteen militants were killed and 12 others injured when jet fighters hit their hideouts in Mamozai area in Orakzai on Friday, official sources claimed.
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Kohat: Police arrests six criminals
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:07 AM PDT
The police arrested six persons involved in snatching an oil tanker from two persons in Lakki Marwat and recovered the stolen petrol and the tanker on Friday.
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Chakwal: Candidate held for unfair means
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:06 AM PDT
An intermediate exam candidate was arrested for using unfair means, sources said on Friday.
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Islamabad: 8 auto thieves arrested
Posted: 28 May 2011 05:00 AM PDT
Eight auto-thieves were arrested and seven cars recovered from them by the Anti-Car Lifting Cell (ACLC), a police spokesman said on Friday.
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Karachi: Killer awarded 40 years imprisonment
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:59 AM PDT
A sessions court on Friday sentenced a man to a total of 40 years in prison in a double murder case.
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Karachi: Man convicted of killing wife, daughter
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:56 AM PDT
A sessions court awarded 20 years’ imprisonment to a man on double counts for killing his wife and three-year-old daughter after suspecting that his wife was indulging in infidelity developing suspicion of infidelity in 2002 within the remit of the Model Colony police station.
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Sukkur: 6 booked in doctor’s murder case
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:56 AM PDT
A case has been registered against six accused on the charge of killing a local leader of the Pakistan Medical Association Dr Mehtab Qureshi. The doctor was gunned down in his clinic in Jacobabad on Thursday.
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Karachi: 3 awarded death penalty for killing teenager
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:53 AM PDT
A sessions court handed down death sentences on Friday to three men for killing a teenage vendor as part of their plan to rob a doctor’s house in the Darakhshan police station in 2001.
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Karachi: 3 get death in robbery, murder case
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:18 AM PDT
A sessions court on Friday handed down death sentence to three men in a murder case. Mohammad Ilyas, Sagheer Ahmed and Mohammad Yousuf were found guilty of killing 13-year-old Sajjad Nawaz within the remit of the Darakhshan police station in March 2001.
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Taxila: 2 held for bank robbery
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:18 AM PDT
Police on Friday claimed of making breakthrough in Rs2.4 million bank heist in which five robbers looted a private bank on Thursday.
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Peshawar: 1,000 bikes impounded
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:12 AM PDT
Following information about a possible sabotage attempt by would-be suicide bombers the police imposed an unannounced ban on motorcycles with applied-for number plates.
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`Police spy` shot dead in Orangi
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:11 AM PDT
An intelligence officer of the Iqbal Market police station was gunned down in Orangi Town on Friday, officials said. They said 37-year-old Assistant Sub-Inspector Javed Iqbal was shot dead near the mobile phone market in Sector 11½.
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Islamabad: Arrest all Jirga members, SC orders
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:08 AM PDT
The Supreme Court Friday directed the Sukkur District Police Officer to arrest all remaining accused involved in giving away, under the tradition of Sangchati, 12 teenaged girls and Rs2.2 million as compensation to the families of four murdered people.
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Karachi: BIEK rejects exam forms of 23 students for submitting fake documents
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:08 AM PDT
Chairman Board of Intermediate Education Karachi (BIEK) Anwar Ahmed Zai announced on Friday that the examination forms of 23 candidates appearing in the annual examinations have been cancelled for submitting tampered and forged documents.
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Bara: FC soldier freed after paying ransom
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:07 AM PDT
A sepoy of the Frontier Constabulary was released after paying Rs0.5 million to militants through a tribal jirga in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, official sources said on Friday.
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Charsadda: 4 women hurt in grenade attack
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:06 AM PDT
Four women sustained injuries when unidentified men hurled a hand-grenade into a house in Mirzai village of Shabqadar tehsil on Friday, official sources said.
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Hindu Extremists attack converted Sikh family in Thar
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:05 AM PDT
A mob of Hindu extremists targeted a Sikh family in the Thar Desert, causing serious injury to its eldest member, claimed a well-placed source of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP). Sardar Jagjit Singh Khalsa, who is the head of the impoverished Sikh family, was seriously injured when he was attacked by a baton-slinging and gun-toting mob of Hindus led by Brahmins.
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Pakpattan: Robbers strike four times in city
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:04 AM PDT
Cash and valuables were taken away in four incidents here on Friday. In the first incident, 10 dacoits broke into the house of Muhammad Rafiq at Chak 26/SP, locked the family in a room and made off with cash, gold ornaments, mobile phones and other valuables.
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TT Singh: Utility store burgled
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:03 AM PDT
Thieves looted a utility store at Adda Soondh on Rajana-Samundri Road on Thursday night.
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Man’s body found from River Jhelum
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:02 AM PDT
The Cantonment police post on Friday found the body of an unidentified man from River Jhelum near Mohallah Darbar Suleman Paris.
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Rawalpindi: Another tragic kidnapping
Posted: 28 May 2011 04:02 AM PDT
In another tragic incident, a toddler had been kidnapped from Rawalpindi last week. It highlighted the fact that the kidnappers patiently plan their heinous crime.
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