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SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

Mansehra assistant commissioner injured in Nowshera firing

Adil Waseem was shot at near Jalozai Panah Kot on Cherat Road while travelling to Peshawar, and is stable at Lady Reading Hospital, police and hospital officials said.

BreakingSecurityGilgit-Baltistan

Skardu family of four killed; police suspect honour killing

Police say Muhammad Aslam, his wife Hania and their children Mahdi, 4, and Zahra, 2, were killed with a sharp-edged weapon; the FIR names Hania's father, brothers and uncle.

PoliticsIslamabad

IHC bars police from listing acquitted cases on character certificates

Justice Ayyaz Shaukat ordered the Islamabad police chief to frame a procedure keeping FIRs that ended in final acquittal off certificates used for travel abroad

SecurityGilgit-Baltistan

Couple and two children killed in suspected honour killing in Skardu

Dunya News reported four deaths in one family but gave no time, place, motive or arrests, and carried no police statement on the case.

DevelopmentIslamabad

CDA demolishes Khanna police station in Islamabad anti-encroachment drive

Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi promised a wider crackdown on encroachments as the capital's civic body tore down the police station, Hum News English reported.

SecurityGilgit-Baltistan

Four members of a family murdered in Skardu house

24 News HD reported the killings inside the family home but gave no names, no time, no arrests and no police statement.

SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

Seventeen sugar mill workers still missing six days after DI Khan abduction

Families blocked the Indus Highway on Monday and urged Governor Faisal Karim Kundi to act, while police say no group has claimed the kidnapping.

SecurityPunjab

Lahore police arrest bike rider accused of harassing passenger

CCTV footage of the woman jumping from the moving motorcycle in Johar Town spread on social media on Monday night; she was injured in the face and arms.

SecurityGilgit-Baltistan

Islamabad police report 32 percent fall in crime calls

Calls logged by the capital's police dropped from 6,506 to 4,444 between 1 January and 25 October, compared with the same period last year, according to ICT Police.

SecuritySindh

Karachi woman, 65, found murdered in Sharifabad government flat

Police say Farida Begum, a mother of five, was struck with stones and her throat cut; the body lay for hours at Abbasi Shaheed Hospital for want of a lady MLO.

SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

Police constable shot dead in North Waziristan bazaar

Asmatullah was killed by unidentified gunmen at Eidak Bazaar in Mirali tehsil around 4pm, police said, adding that an investigation has been opened.

SecuritySindh

Sindh home minister seeks report on Karachi DHA gunpoint harassment video

Ziaul Hassan Lanjar ordered police to identify the men in the footage and to establish when and where it was filmed; no arrests have been announced.

SecurityBalochistan

Gunmen open fire in Nushki girls college, injuring three students

Police say three armed men entered through the main gate, forced their way into the principal's office and fired indiscriminately before fleeing; a search operation is under way.

SecurityPunjab

Twelve injured as mob attacks food safety team in Muzaffargarh

Police say two station house officers were among the wounded and some personnel were briefly held hostage during a crackdown on sellers of unsafe milk.

SecuritySindh

Police arrest prime suspect in Gadap mobile phone theft case

Malir police say Babar alias Sahil Salman was held on his way to sell the handsets, with 40 phones and a pistol recovered from him.

SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

DI Khan police arrest suspect, seize charas, meth and weapons

Two outlets framed a DI Khan arrest and a Peshawar warehouse raid as action under governor's rule, without giving the order's date, authority or terms.

SecurityBalochistan

Three shot dead near Quetta's Pood Gali Chowk

Police sources quoted in television reports said the attackers fled the scene and a search operation is under way; none of the dead has been identified.

SecurityPunjab

Gunmen shoot dead Gujranwala bride on walima day; suspects at large

Dawn reports the killing was allegedly carried out by a jilted suitor, while CCTV footage obtained by ARY News shows two men on a motorcycle stopping her car.

SecurityPunjab

Punjab crime control department claims 63pc fall in September crime

The department says robbery and motorcycle theft were among the offences that dropped, but the reports carried no district breakdown or explanation of the data.

SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

Cop martyred as CTD foils terror plot in Peshawar

A policeman was killed during a Counter-Terrorism Department operation that stopped an attack in Peshawar, according to initial reports by The News and The Express Tribune.

Security

Supreme Court rejects bail for six police officials in custodial death case

SDPO and SHO among those accused in torture and death of Arshad Ali Khorkhani, Daily Times reported.

SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

Peshawar civil secretariat evacuated after mosque threat alert

Employees were told to leave offices immediately after a threat alert was issued for the mosque inside the complex, police and sources said.

SecurityKhyber Pakhtunkhwa

CTD officer martyred in Peshawar terrorist firefight

A CTD team was fired on during an intelligence-based raid in Garhi Sherdad near Warsak Road; one officer was killed and the injured toll differs between reports.

SecuritySindh

Karachi police probe mysterious death of 19-year-old woman

The woman, identified as Nazia and married a few months ago, was found dead in her Paposh Nagar home; her body was taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.

SecurityIslamabad

ICT Police arrest two over gunpoint street robberies

Suspects described as members of the 'Bali Boxer Gang'; snatched valuables recovered in federal capital.

SecurityBalochistan

Balochistan Police get 865 motorcycles for modern patrolling

The provincial government says the bikes will improve rapid response and access in crowded neighbourhoods and difficult terrain.

SecurityBalochistan

Two police guarding polio team shot dead in Nushki

Attackers on a motorcycle opened fire in Jamalabad during a seven-day polio drive; the vaccination team was unharmed and a search is underway.

SecurityGilgit-Baltistan

GB police foil terrorist attack on Diamer-Ghizer checkpost

Dawn reports the attack was stopped, but no details have been released on attackers, casualties or weapons

SecurityPunjab

Rawalpindi police seize 7.5kg drugs, arrest five; FIA holds five in Faisalabad

Separate operations reported in Rawalpindi and Faisalabad put ten suspects in custody as Punjab agencies continue anti-narcotics drives.

SecuritySindh

Five bodies found in Karachi flat, cause unknown

Police found a doctor, his wife and three daughters dead in Lakhani Towers after neighbours reported a strong smell.

SecurityBalochistan

Gunmen kill two police guards protecting polio team in southwest Pakistan

Newsday and Arab News PK reported the constables were attacked during a polio immunisation drive, but no group claimed responsibility.

SecurityBalochistan

Two policemen guarding polio team killed in Nushki attack

Police identified the slain officials as Yasir Ahmed and Abdul Rauf; attackers took their weapons after the firing.

SecuritySindh

Karachi court grants police more time in Raza murder case

Investigating officer sought 14-day extension, citing ongoing probe and information received about a Binance cryptocurrency account.