Category: PAKISTAN

A special team was formed on Monday to investigate the killing of Asma Rani, a third-year medical student who was reportedly shot dead in Kohat on Saturday for refusing a marriage proposal. District Police Officer (DPO) Abbas Majeed Marwat formed a team comprising six senior police officials to resolve the case. The DPO also said the Federal Investigation Agency had been approached for the issuance of red warrants against the accused. According to police, Asma had been visiting her family in Kohat during a session break when the prime accused, Mujahid…

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Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahirul Qadri on Sunday announced that his party has shelved its strategy of protests on the Model Town incident and indicated that he will now seek a “legal and political” solution to the problem. On June 17, 2014, 14 people had been killed and 100 others injured when police launched an assault on supporters gathered outside the residence of Qadri in Model Town, Lahore. Following a judicial inquiry, a report compiled by Justice Baqar Najafi had pointed fingers at Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah and Punjab Police…

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Pakistan on Sunday defeated New Zealand by 18 runs in the third and final T20I at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui. The victory means the tourists clinched the T20 series 2-1 and end their tour Down Under on a high after being whitewashed in the ODI series. The Green Shirts won the toss and elected to bat first. Opener Fakhar Zaman was Pakistan’s top-scorer with 46 runs off just 36 balls laced with five boundaries and a six before being dismissed by Mitchell Santner. With seven of Pakistan’s top…

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TAXILA: Attock police on Saturday claimed to have arrested a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a girl in Targar village in the Bassal police area recently. District Police Officer Ibadat Nisar said the accused took the 10-year-old girl to an under-construction house and assaulted her. Medical examination of the girl had confirmed the assault. The accused is stated to be the cousin of the girl. An FIR against the accused has been registered by the Bassal police after a on the complaint of the victim’s mother. Separately, a man was…

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As the United States (US) on Thursday rejected Foreign Office (FO) claims that a Jan 24 drone strike targeted an Afghan refugee camp in Kurram Agency, the army’s media wing explained that the drone targeted a terrorist hiding in an Afghan refugee complex in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) statement said: “The drone strike on Jan 24 in Speen Tal, Hangu district, was on an individual target who had morphed into Afghan refugees and not [on] any organised terrorists sanctuary, which have been eliminated.”…

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SARGODHA: Spiritual leader and custodian of Sial Sharif Shrine of Sargodha Pir Khawaja Hameeduddin Sialvi has taken back his call of protest after meeting Punjab Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Thursday. While speaking to media after the meeting, the chief minister said that a committee has been constituted to resolve differences between the government and Pir Sialvi, adding that political rivals tried to create acrimony between them. Punjab Auqaf Minister Zaeem Qadri, Pir Riazud Din from Rawalpindi, Pir Mudassir Taunsvi of Taunsa Sharif and Speaker of Data Darbar shrine Ramzan…

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A little over a month after he was barred from making any appearanceon electronic media by a court, televangelist and TV host Amir Liaquat Hussain has launched an eponymous news website. Called Amir Liaquat Hussain news (alhnews.com), the Urdu-language website, launched on January 14, features a wide array of news categories, including local and international, business, health, sports and entertainment news. Also highlighted on the website are columns penned by and video commentaries featuring Hussain, and even childhood and family photos of the controversial anchor. “If the voice is banned a 100,000 times, the picture is forbidden…

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The death of Naqeebullah Mehsud was an extrajudicial killing, the Additional Inspector General of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), Dr Sanaullah Abbasi, on Tuesday told the victim’s grieving friends, family and tribesmen gathered on the outskirts of Karachi. Abbasi, who headed a three-member team investigating Naqeebullah’s killing in an ‘exchange of fire’, assured his kin that Naqeebullah had never been involved in terrorism-related activities as alleged earlier, but had been innocent and was in fact killed in a ‘fake encounter’. “This was a fake encounter in which an innocent man was…

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Kasur turned tense on Tuesday as residents surrounded the house of a suspect arrested for the rape and murder of six-year-old Zainab Amin, whose DNA matches samples taken from the crime scene. Earlier today, police sources told DawnNews of the arrest of the suspect, saying his DNA was a match with samples on record, but the Punjab government has yet to confirm this information. As a mob began gathering around the house, police also reached the area urging people to remain calm in order to avoid any untoward incident. Television footage showed…

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A grade 12 student at a private college in Charsadda shot his college principal dead on Monday after being censured for skipping school to attend the November 2017 sit-in of religio-political parties in Islamabad’s Faizabad area. In a video acquired by DawnNews, the student, while being arrested, appeared to justify the murder saying he believed the college principal had committed blasphemy. It was not immediately clear what prompted that charge. “I have been taught… to kill… to not be afraid. Don’t be afraid of disrespecting the one who” commits blasphemy, the student…

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The Sindh High Court (SHC) on Monday accepted a petition asking for a probe into the the alleged ‘fake’ police encounters carried out by former Malir SSP Rao Anwar. The high court issued notices to Anwar, Sindh Inspector General of Police (IGP) A.D. Khowaja and Home Secretary Sohail Anwar Siyal along with other high ranking officials to appear before the court on February 20. Anwar, who is under scrutiny over his alleged involvement in the extrajudicial killing of Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud, earlier failed to appear before the Sindh IGP…

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The parents of eight girls who had been raped and murdered in Kasur since 2015 appeared before the Supreme Court on Sunday and pleaded for justice. “Give us justice,” the parents ─ including those of six-year-old Zainab whose body was found in a trash heap on January 9 ─ pleaded before a three-member bench of the apex court. The bench, headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Mian Saqib Nisar, was hearing a suo motu case on the grisly rape and murder of the six-year-old that shocked the nation this month.…

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A committee comprising the Inspector General Police (IGP) Counter-terrorism Department (CTD) Sanaullah Abbasi and DIGs South and East was formed on Thursday to investigate the death of Naqeebullah who was allegedly killed in a “staged encounter”. A notification issued by the provincial inspector general police office said the committee is mandated to “assess the genuineness of encounter” and “dig out profile of the deceased”, and directed to submit its findings within three days. Earlier in the day, Sindh Home Minister Sohail Anwar Siyal took notice of the incident, following reports…

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