Tag: investigation

  • #JusticeForNoor: Zahir Jaffer to be put on ECL

    #JusticeForNoor: Zahir Jaffer to be put on ECL

    The interior ministry has decided to put the alleged killer of Noor Mukadam on the Exit Control List (ECL) at the request of the Islamabad Police, reports The News.

    The police chief also directed the team to obtain his criminal history, if any, from England and the United States.

    Briefing IGP Islamabad about the progress of the case, SSP Investigation Ata-ur-Rehman, said that the statements of the victim’s parents, and the suspect’s father, besides two security guards, have been recorded.

    A forensic team has also provided evidence after their investigation, the police chief was told.

    The IGP said that all the evidence obtained from the incident “should be forensic”, adding that the Therapy Works team should also be approached as part of the probe.

    Noor’s father had earlier said that he has served the country as an ambassador and only seeks justice. He wants justice from Prime Minister Imran Khan and the courts.

    Noor Mukadam, 27, was beheaded. Her post-mortem report states that she was stabbed several times and then beheaded in Islamabad.

    The incident took place on July 20 in F-7/4 in Islamabad, reportedly at the residence of Zahir Jaffer, who was arrested for Noor’s murder.

  • ‘Being a govt lawyer, it is alarming that the public mistrusts the system’, Additional Advocate General Punjab on #JusticeforNoor

    ‘Being a govt lawyer, it is alarming that the public mistrusts the system’, Additional Advocate General Punjab on #JusticeforNoor

     The 27-year-old daughter of former diplomat Shaukat Mukadam was found dead at a residence in the capital’s upscale Sector F-7/4 and the alleged murderer, Zahir Jaffar was arrested for the crime.

    #JusticeForNoor is trending on social media for three days and everybody is questioning: Will justice be served?

    The Current reached out to Additional Advocate General Punjab, Chaudhry Faisal Hussain to ask if the lack of trust in our institutions was legitimate.

    Speaking to The Current, he said, “Despite the best handling of this case by the police, previously the role of lower courts or investigative authorities has created mistrust in people. The Shahrukh Jatoi case and other such incidents have been dubious so people are reluctant to believe that the Noor murder case will come to a justified conclusion.”

    Read More: Zahir Jaffar, ‘sound and in senses’ when arrested after murdering and beheading Noor: SSP Investigation

    “This is alarming for lower courts, where the conviction rate is very low. People do no trust our police department, courts, and the prosecution, even if they do the right thing,” he added.

    “#JusticeForNoor is trending on social media but this should happen when the suspect has not been arrested so being a government’s lawyer, this is alarming for me that mistrust of the public on the system is increasing.”

    He further said, “Institutes need to work on their performance. The high court and supreme court should pay attention to the lower courts. Police departments need to focus on the investigative part. Parliaments and provincial assemblies should also work on this. One alarming thing for the government, opposition and institutes in this all is that people mistrust the institutions.”

    Islamabad police has said that they recommend that Zahir Jaffar be placed on the exit control list.

  • Murderer, rapist of seven-year-old girl turns out to be her own brother

    Murderer, rapist of seven-year-old girl turns out to be her own brother

    The brother of a 7-year-old girl who was strangled to death after being sexually assaulted has turned out to be her murderer.

    As per reports, the suspect was allegedly sexually abusing his sister for several months.

    The 14-year-old boy confessed to murdering his sister for fear of being caught by family members.

    District Police Officer (DPO) Bilal Iftikhar Kayani appreciated the police officers and gave cash rewards to personnel for tracing and arresting the suspect.

    Almost a  month ago, the police took action after a labourer, Abdul Ghafoor filed a complaint at Bada Ghar police station that his 7-year-old daughter had gone missing from the house.

    Bachiki In-charge police, Anjum Rizwan Cheema was directed to investigate the missing girl incident.

    He along with other police officers and personnel conducted a search operation for the missing girl in the village and nearby areas. Initially, the police could not find the minor girl.

    The next day after she was reported missing, the body of the girl was found in a field near the village. Initial investigations suggested she had been strangled to death after being raped.

    As soon as the incident was reported, DPO Kiani, Bada Ghar DSP Circle Mian Khalid Mehmood, SHO Muhammad Botha Dogar, and Bachiki in charge, collected proof after checking the scene.

    Police arrested the suspect after a search operation. Reportedly, the DNA sample of the victim’s brother had matched, indicating his involvement in the crime.

    The suspect has confessed to the crime during an investigation.

    Police officials added that Saqlain also confessed to sexually assaulting his little sister for several months.

    The juvenile suspect also stated that he had sexually assaulted animals.

    DPO Kiani remarked that this rape-cum-murder incident had reflected the moral decay of society. we need to revive our values to avoid such heinous crimes, he added.

    The DPO  said that he along with his team will organise awareness lectures in all educational institutions so that children can be told about their values. He appealed to the citizens to come forward and play their role in preventing such incidents. “We must provide our children with education as well as training.”

  • Mufti Taqi Usmani escapes knife attack in Karachi

    Mufti Taqi Usmani escapes knife attack in Karachi

     Mufti Taqi Usmani survived a knife attack on Thursday after his guards arrested a man carrying a knife. 

    Usmani was walking with his guards by his side after Fajr prayers at Dar ul Uloom Korangi when a suspicious man started to follow him. 

    The scholar’s guards captured the suspect, who has been identified as a 35-year-old man named Asim Laeeq. It was found that Asim was carrying a knife, confirmed Dar ul Uloom sources. 

    SSP Korangi Shahjahan said the suspect did not attack Usmani. He said the suspect had asked for a meeting with the scholar after Fajr prayers. 

    “The suspect has been taken into custody, we are continuing with further investigation into the incident,” said SSP Korangi. 

    Shortly after the incident, Mufti Taqi Usmani released an audio message in which he confirmed most details of the incident, reassuring his followers that he is safe. 

    “A suspect came to me after the Fajr prayers and asked to speak to me in private,” he said. “I had just gotten up to speak to him when the suspect pulled out a knife from his pocket,” revealed the scholar. 

  • #ArrestUsmanMirza case: ‘Our concern is to protect the boy, girl from danger’: Islamabad Police

    #ArrestUsmanMirza case: ‘Our concern is to protect the boy, girl from danger’: Islamabad Police

    Four people were arrested in connection with Usman Mirza in Islamabad after a disturbing video went viral on social media where he could be seen torturing and assaulting a couple. He was also seen stripping the woman in the video.

    After the arrest of Usman Mirza, the police further investigated the case which led to the tracing of others.

    The incident had occurred in an apartment on E-11/2, the police stated. The flat was in possession of a property dealer from whom the boy had taken its key, the officers said. The six suspects also had a key to the flat and they followed the couple there, reports Dawn.

    The police later traced the boy and asked him for his statement on the incident but so far he was not willing to do so, the officer said, adding that, “the boy is so frightened that he refused to give a statement and become a complainant in the case, saying the suspects would kill him and his family”.

    Police also reached out to the girl but she refused as well, they added.

    When police officials, DIG operations, and SSP operations were contacted by Dawn, they said an investigation had been launched to establish the facts.

    About the safety of the girl and the boy, they said efforts and arrangements were being made to take them in protective custody as chances of suicide and honour killing cannot be ruled out.

    “Our concern is also to protect the boy and the girl from all risks and danger,” they added. A special investigating team has been constituted to probe the incident, they added.

  • ‘Punjab police will soon arrest culprits behind Lahore blast’: Sheikh Rasheed

    ‘Punjab police will soon arrest culprits behind Lahore blast’: Sheikh Rasheed

    Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed on Thursday said that the Punjab Police were close to arresting the culprits responsible for the Johar Town blast.

    The minister tweeted that officials had achieved “great success” during the investigation process. “Punjab police will soon arrest the suspects and give good news to the people,” he said.

    Rasheed said that Pakistan’s enemies could not tolerate the economic and political stability in the country under the leadership of Prime Minister Imran Khan and had started adopting “terrorist routes”.

    A powerful blast near the residence of Jamaatud Dawa chief Hafiz Saeed killed three people and injured 24 others, including a police constable.

  • ‘You won’t be able to escape, I will kill you’ says Mayra’s alleged killer

    ‘You won’t be able to escape, I will kill you’ says Mayra’s alleged killer

    A 24-year-old girl, Mayra Zulfiqar, was found dead in Lahore on Monday. She had recently been threatened by two men who both wanted to marry her.

    Prior to her brutal murder, she had asked police for protection after accusing a man of abducting her at gunpoint.

    In Pakistan, the chief investigating officer in the murder inquiry told the BBC that police teams were targeting addresses in Islamabad and Lahore. So far no arrest had been made.

    In a police report filed before her murder, Ms Zulfiqar named and accused a man of abducting her at gunpoint and attempting to sexually assault her.

    She said she managed to run away by alerting people around but the man threatened her, saying “You won’t be able to escape, I will kill you.”

    Mayra’s uncle Mohammad Nazeer found her body after receiving a phone call from her father, who lives in London, to say she had been killed.

    The initial postmortem report said that Mayra had received two bullets, one to her neck and another to her arm.

    Mayra Zulfiqar’s funeral took place in Lahore, while a special memorial service has been held at a mosque in Hounslow, west London. Her brother Faizan Muhammad said his father had left for Pakistan

    The deceased woman had arrived from the UK, where her family is settled, some two months back and shared the upper portion of the rented house with a friend. Police have taken her housemate into custody as part of the probe.

    Late on Monday, Defence-B police registered a First Information Report (FIR) against two purported friends of Mayra on murder charges on the complaint of the deceased woman’s uncle.

    In a statement, the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office said, “our thoughts are with the family at this difficult time. We are urgently seeking more information from the local authorities.”

  • FIA launches investigation against platforms selling sacrificial animals online

    FIA launches investigation against platforms selling sacrificial animals online

    Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has launched an investigation against the online platforms that were selling sacrificial animals this Eid.

    Majority of complaints filed are about late delivery of meat, lesser meat quantity, and in some cases, the meat was not even delivered. There are also complains that the animal meat got stale to the point where it became un-edible.

    A few weeks before Edi-Ul-Adha several meat brands, cattle farm owners, and regular businesses set up their website offering multiple services regarding the Eid.

    Among them, the lowest-ranked online Eid services providers are Meat Master, ARY Sahulat Bazar, and Laal Meat. The online platforms offered the substandard facilities to the users and did not deliver what it promised the users.

    The Deputy Director of Crime Cell Abdul Ghafoor said that after receiving hundreds of complaints, the unit finally decides to conduct a thorough investigation.

    Iftikhar Shalwani, the Commissioner Karachi, has advised FIA to take stern action against such companies along with the others which will be deciphered fully after the investigation.

    Earlier, the government has urged the citizens to avoid going to the cattle market and buy cattle online to curb the spread of COVID-19.

    It was not the first time when online platform became an option for the selling and purchasing of the sacrificial animal it has been done for years.

  • LGS Harassment: Senate Committee takes notice, invites parents to attend meeting

    Senate Human Rights Committee has taken the notice of sexual harassment incidents at the Lahore Grammar School and will hold a meeting in this regard on July 22.

    Senate Human Rights Committee Chairperson and PPP Senator Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar shared details of the meeting and said that “parents of the students who were concerned with the way investigations have progressed so far” can also attend the meeting.

    The agenda of the meeting will be to brief the Senate body on the incidents and the actions taken after the allegations by the Punjab Education secretary, LGS principal, and Lahore DPO.

    Speaking to The Current about the matter Senator Khokhar said, “[These incidents are] deeply disturbing. One wonders where we are headed as a society with crimes of sexual assault and harassment on the rise.”

    He added: “[We are] waiting to hear from the authorities and the outcome of their investigations so far, whether cases have been registered against offenders and whether any action has been taken by the education ministry or school for incidents like this not to happen again.”

    Read More – Meesha Shafi extends support to victims of harassment at Lahore school

    On June 28, dozens of girls came forward with accounts of harassment and inappropriate behaviour by teachers at LGS 1A1 Ghalib Market Branch. The management of the school, including female teachers, also came under fire for brushing the matter under the carpet for years. It is pertinent to mention here that most of the girls studying at the school were minors at the time.

    Such incidents had reportedly been going on for the past four or five years and the victims had been reporting the matter to the admin and their teachers. However, they took no action and resorted to victim-blaming. Strict action was only taken after the girls shared their ordeal on social media and the matter became public.

    According to details, students have come forward and shared their experiences of being harassed by three teachers namely Aitezaz Rehman Sheikh, Umer Shareef and Zahid Iqbal Warraich. All three teachers were fired soon after the allegations surfaced.

    Following the uproar on social media, Minister for Human Rights Dr Shireen Mazari had said that she has taken serious notice of the allegations. The Punjab government had also said that they will hand exemplary punishments to the perpetrators and make an example of them.

  • Man dies, kills bystander after ‘falling from hotel balcony’

    Man dies, kills bystander after ‘falling from hotel balcony’

    A British man has died after falling from a balcony of a five-star hotel in Spain, killing another person on the ground below.

    According to reports, the man is said to have fallen from the seventh floor of the in Marbella, Spain landing on top of another man in the early hours of Saturday.

    One of the victims is said to be 46 years old, while the other’s age remains unknown. Spanish police are now investigating the incident.

    A Foreign Office spokesman said officials were supporting the family of a British national in Spain after a death at the hotel.

    The spokesman said: “We are supporting the family of a British man following his death in Spain, and are in touch with the local police.”