Earlier this month, headlines were made when self-styled, swivel-eyed holy warrior Zaid Hamid resurfaced in Pakistan after spending several weeks in a Saudi jail. While the facts of his case are still unclear, it was alleged that Hamid had been arrested for publicly criticising the Saudi regime. News of Hamid’s incarceration sent his followers on […]
KARACHI: The Cyber Crime Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claims to have arrested a young student for allegedly blackmailing a girl via the social networking website, Facebook. The accused, 21-year-old Abdul Moiz, was arrested on Thursday night during a raid at his residence in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. He was shifted to the Crime Circle for […]
PESHAWAR: In probably the first action by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) against a post on Twitter, its Cyber Crime Wing arrested a young member of the social media team of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf, sources told The News. Qazi Jalal, a resident of suburban Peshawar and a Hafiz-e-Quran, was picked up on Tuesday morning. The student, […]
PESHAWAR: Federal Investigation Agency’s cyber crime wing Peshawar has arrested a Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf social-media activist for allegedly posting a message against the judiciary on social-media website Twitter, sources in the federal agency confirmed Wednesday. Qazi Jalal of the PTI has been charged under Sections 36 and 37 of the Pakistan Electronic Transactions Ordinance 2002 and […]
KARACHI: An anti-terrorism court remanded on Thursday three printing press workers into police custody on physical remand for allegedly publishing anti-state literature to de distributed in Balochistan. The suspects, Adeel Ahmed, Raheel Ahmed and Majaz Ahmed, were arrested from a printing press in the Ranchore Lines area along with magazines containing hate-speech articles, the case […]
LANDIKOTAL: The Tribal Union of Journalists, Khyber Agency chapter, on Sunday held a protest rally at Bab-i-Khyber in Jamrud tehsil and demanded the government to protect their life and honour. The protest rally was jointly organised by the TUJ Khyber and Khyber Siyasi Ettihad on Sunday. Besides journalists from Landikotal, Jamrud and Bara, representatives of […]
Karachi: Officials of the Cyber Crime Circle of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) claimed on Wednesday to have arrested a suspect who was involved in making a fake Facebook ID of a girl. According to a statement, the family of the girl had lodged a complaint against Mazhar, accusing him of having uploaded objectionable photoshopped […]
ISLAMABAD: India’s claim of arresting a ‘Pakistani suspect’, who their sensationalist film-style news media termed ‘Kasab 2’, has turned out to be false as reports have shown that the accused in custody belongs to the Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) district of Kulgam and is mentally incapacitated, Geo News reported. The young man arrested from Udhampur for […]
ISLAMABAD: Television anchor Moeed Pirzada and his sister have been detained in Abu Dhabi. Foreign Office spokesman Qazi Khalilullah said Mr Pirzada was under detention since Tuesday (Aug 4). The official didn’t say anything about the charges under which Mr Pirzada and his sister had been arrested. “Our embassy has been trying to help him,” […]
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