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Villagers protest man’s death in custody
SHEIKHUPURA: Dozens of villagers of Karyal Kalan near Narang Mandi ransacked the Narang Mandi police station on Tuesday in protest at the death of a man in police custody. Narang and Sathra (Sailkot) police officials raided the village to arrest Mudassar in dacoity cases. The police took his father Tariq into custody who died at […]
IGP to take action against cops submitting old reports to court
Karachi The Sindh High Court directed the IGP on Monday to conduct an inquiry against police officials who, instead of making any progress in missing person cases, were filing old reports. The court was hearing a petition filed by Mohammad Saeed against the illegal detention of his brother-in-law Mohammad Shoaib who was taken away from […]
Outcry over ‘unlawful detention’ of HR activist
KARACHI: Despite a passage of one week to his ‘detention’, rights activist and general secretary of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum Saeed Baloch has been neither produced in any court of law nor officially shown arrested in any criminal case, sparking outrage from international rights groups. On Jan 16, Mr Baloch, who is also the general […]
HRCP calls for NAP review
Lahore, Jan 21: While strongly condemning the Charsadda terrorist attack the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for a critical reappraisal of the operations against terrorists and a more stringent implementation of the National Action Plan, especially the agenda for dealing with centres and organizations responsible for the training of and assistance to […]
Exhumation
The family and neighbours of a youth who died allegedly during interrogation by Jinnah Road police gathered on Saturday outside the district and sessions court and filed a petition through their counsel for exhumation of the body and its autopsy. They blocked Sialkot Road and shouted slogans against police demanding stern action against officials involved […]
Harassment: Man accuses police officials of ‘abducting’ him
LAHORE: An additional district and sessions judge on Friday sought comments from the Nawankot SHO on a petition seeking registration of a case against 13 police officials for illegally detaining the petitioner. Waseem Zakariya had accused the officials, including the CCPO, the Operations DIG, the Operations SSP and the SHO, for “abducting” him after he refused […]
