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Daily Archives: October 9, 2007

Couple remanded in kidnapping case

HYDERABAD, Oct 8: The civil judge and judicial magistrate-X of Hyderabad on Monday remanded Ms Maria Bengali and her husband Rafique Bengali in police custody for three days. The husband and wife were reportedly involved in kidnapping a three-day-old baby Dua from Bhittai Hospital in Latifabad on Aug 19. Sources said that police had arrested […]


Azad Kashmir CJ helps woman in child custody case

MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 8: A woman of Mirpur will be flying to the United Kingdom on Wednesday to get back the custody of her infant son allegedly ‘kidnapped’ by her British national husband nearly three months ago, it has been learnt. Accused Affif Ajmal Akhtar had also taken away Pakistani passport and identity card of Zahira […]


Blast accused remanded to police custody

RAWALPINDI – Anti Terrorism Court (ATC) Rawalpindi No.1 gave three days physical remand of four suspects for their alleged involvement in Islamabad bomb blasts here on Monday. All the four accused were brought here from high security prison in Faisalabad under tight security. The Judge Habibur Rehman remanded the four accused Faisal Mushtaq, Qasim Mushtaq, […]


Court orders arrest of SHO, policemen

LARKANA, Oct 8: The Larkana circuit bench of the Sindh High Court on Monday ordered arrest of the Dera Murad Sarki SHO, four head constables and three private persons for keeping a man, Shahbaig Jaffri in illegal detention for more than three and half months. Justice Amir Hani Muslim of the single bench passed the […]


Police press poultry poses as perfect punishment for punks

* What is non-violent, humiliating, has nothing to do with tikkas and works wonderfully for teasing girls? Karachi’s police have the answer… KARACHI: The police in Karachi have come up with a brand new and entirely non-violent way of enforcing law and order in crowded market places and bazaars where young punks have displayed a […]


Talks with India to check human trafficking successful: Rangers DG

NAWABSHAH: Rangers Director-General Lt-Gen Javed Zia has said a successful round of talks was held with India to stop human trafficking on either side of the border. He was talking to newsmen after inaugurating a water filtration plant installed by the Rangers at Taj Colony here on Monday. District Nazim Dr Faryal Talpur, DCO Abdul […]


Journalist’s kidnapping condemned

QUETTA, Oct 8: Balochistan Assembly Deputy Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani has condemned the kidnapping of Raiz Mengal, a senior journalist of Khuzdar, and termed it part of continuing violence against journalists. In a statement issued here on Monday, Mr Bhootani criticised the government’s handling of the case failure of the law-enforcement agencies in recovering Mr […]


Woman accuses police of harassment

NAUSHAHRO FEROZE, Oct 9: A woman has accused an SP investigation and an incharge DPO of harassing her and registering concocted FIRs against their supporters and forcing them to withdraw a petition regarding the kidnapping of her daughter and her husband, Riaz Hisbani, who have married against the will of the girl’s family. Speaking at […]


Brigadier killed in helicopter crash

MUZAFFARABAD, Oct 8: A brigadier and three other people were killed when a Pakistan army helicopter crashed near here on Monday after developing a ‘technical fault’. Eight others on board were injured. The Russian-built Mi-17 chopper was escorting President General Pervez Musharraf to the border town of Chakothi for the ground-breaking ceremony of the Chakothi-Muzaffarabad […]


Journalist’s kidnapping condemned

QUETTA, Oct 8: Balochistan Assembly Deputy Speaker Mohammad Aslam Bhootani has condemned the kidnapping of Raiz Mengal, a senior journalist of Khuzdar, and termed it part of continuing violence against journalists. In a statement issued here on Monday, Mr Bhootani criticised the government’s handling of the case failure of the law-enforcement agencies in recovering Mr […]


Military officer in tribal areas threatens journalist with kidnapping, death

RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has voiced grave concern about the safety of Sailab Mehsud, working for the newspaper “The News” and for Al-Jazeera in Dera Ismail Kahn, south of Peshawar, after a Pakistani military intelligence officer insulted him and threatened him with death. Mehsud, who is also editor of the regional news website “Karwan-e-Qabial” […]