The Balochistan High Court (BHC) has sentenced former provincial lawmaker Abdul Majeed Achakzai to 10 years in prison in connection with the 2017 hit-and-run incident that resulted in the death of a traffic police officer in Quetta. A division bench comprising Justice Muhammad Amir Nawaz Rana and Justice Abdul Qayyum Lehri accepted the provincial government’s...
A Lahore court has granted the National Cyber Crime Investigation Agency (NCCIA) a further two-day physical remand of two suspects accused of involvement in a major counterfeit US postage stamp scam estimated at Rs35 billion. The suspects, including the prime accused, were produced before Judicial Magistrate Naeem Wattoo on Tuesday after their previous four-day remand...
More than 50 private shelter homes in Punjab remain unregistered with the Child Protection and Welfare Bureau (CPWB), raising concerns about the safety and welfare of vulnerable children living in residential care. According to a report published by The Express Tribune on October 24, only 14 shelter homes have been licensed by the CPWB. A...
The main suspect accused of running over and killing a teenage boy in Multan has died in an alleged encounter with Punjab’s Crime Control Department (CCD) in Bahawalpur, police said on Wednesday. The suspect, identified as Tauqeer Nazir, was accused of chasing and hitting 14-year-old Waseem Abbas with a car in a private housing society...
The Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) says it has arrested 13 suspected militants during 98 intelligence-based operations conducted across the province this week. According to a CTD spokesperson, one of those arrested, identified as Wajid, was allegedly linked to India’s intelligence agency RAW and was detained in Pakpattan. The other suspects were arrested in Lahore, Sargodha,...
Lahore police have arrested a British national accused of robbing a bank near Bhatta Chowk in DHA Lahore, with investigators saying the suspect was allegedly inspired by Netflix shows. According to DIG Operations Lahore Faisal Kamran, the suspect, identified as Subhan Ali, entered the bank at around 9:19 am and allegedly remained inside for about...
Indian pilot Smit Machchhar is being praised after helping prevent a potential disaster aboard a Flydubai flight bound for Israel. According to Israeli officials, Machchhar was seriously injured after his co-pilot reportedly attacked him with a knife during the flight. Despite his injuries, Machchhar managed to activate the cockpit door release, allowing crew members and...
At least one private security guard was killed, two people were wounded, and 12 workers were abducted after gunmen attacked a construction company’s base in the Duki district of Balochistan on Saturday, police said. According to Duki Superintendent of Police Mansoor Ahmed Buzdar, the attackers raided the site in the Palari area of Nana Sahib...
MIRANSHAH: Four people, including two women, were killed and two others injured after rival groups exchanged gunfire over a land dispute in Baka Khel, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on Wednesday. According to Baka Khel police, the incident occurred in a mountainous area within the police jurisdiction after the two groups confronted each other over a dispute involving road...
The ride-hailing driver who took 25-year-old Mir Raza Ali from his home in PECHS to Gulistan-e-Johar shortly before his death has provided details of the young entrepreneur’s final journey, as investigators continue to probe the case. Driver Ehsanullah said he accepted the booking at around 3:57 am and reached Ali’s location shortly after 4 am....