Tag: Lahore

  • Woman raped in metro bus underpass in Rawalpindi

    Woman raped in metro bus underpass in Rawalpindi

    A woman has reportedly been tortured and raped by a university student in the underpass of the Metro Bus Station in Rehmanabad, reports Dawn.

    According to the Police Investigating Officer (IO), the suspect, identified as Talal Munir, is studying Information Technology (IT). He was arrested by the local police right after the First Information Report (FIR).

    The survivor is a resident of Lahore. She complained to New Town police that she informed her brother about a job in a boys’ hostel, which was advertised on the Facebook account of the suspect.

    According to her statement, her brother contacted the suspect. She then travelled to Rawalpindi with her aunt.

    The victim said that upon reaching the location, the suspect forcibly took her to a boy’s dormitory, where he began slapping her and closed the door from inside. Later, she said she was taken to the underpass and raped.

    Police said the victim was taken to a hospital for medical examination. However, a Deoxyribonucleic Acid (DNA) test of both the victim and the suspect is yet to be conducted.

  • Internet services to be suspended in specific areas of Lahore

    Internet services to be suspended in specific areas of Lahore

    The Punjab Home Department has asked the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to suspend internet services in specific areas of Lahore.

    As per the home department’s letter to the PTA, the instruction has been given in response to a protest oragnised by the banned Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP).

    The areas where internet services are being suspended are Samanabad, Sheerakot, Nawankot, Gulshan-e-Ravi, Sabzazar and Iqbal Town.

  • FIA arrests doctor for making objectionable videos of nurses, lady doctors

    FIA arrests doctor for making objectionable videos of nurses, lady doctors

    A doctor who allegedly made objectionable videos of nurses and lady doctors in Lahore’s Jinnah Hospital has been arrested by the Federal Investigation Authority (FIA) on Tuesday, Geo News reported.

    According to FIA officials, a victim woman, a resident of Chongi Amrsadho Lahore, had registered a complaint against Dr Abdullah Haris of Jinnah Hospital Lahore in the Cyber ​​Crime Wing.

    The suspect was blackmailing her with obscene videos of the victim.

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    FIA officials said that the Cyber Crime Wing arrested the accused, Abdullah Haris, and seized two mobile phones.

    Around 50 videos of several nurses and lady doctors were recovered from the doctor’s mobile. A case has been registered against the accused and further investigation is underway.

  • Dengue Emergency: Punjab sets up a field hospital amid sharp increase in cases

    Dengue Emergency: Punjab sets up a field hospital amid sharp increase in cases

    A 280-bed dengue field hospital has been set up at Expo Centre Lahore, Samaa has reported.

    Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid, while talking to the media, said the Services Hospital and the Ganga Ram Hospital had been filled to capacity with dengue patients.

    “We have 1,209 beds for dengue patients in Lahore,” said Dr Yasmin Rashid, adding that most of the dengue cases were reported from DHA Lahore.

    As per Dr Rahsid, the field hospital had been made functional for 24 hours and CBC shall be provided within 45 seconds. Free treatment for fever shall be given to all. All tests shall be done free-of-cost.

    In a meeting chaired by Dr Yasmin Rashid on Friday, a medical emergency at public health facilities in Lahore was declared amid the rising number of dengue cases in the city.

  • Minar-e-Pakistan incident: Ayesha Akram says Rambo responsible, Rambo denies accusations

    Minar-e-Pakistan incident: Ayesha Akram says Rambo responsible, Rambo denies accusations

    The victim of Minar-e-Pakistan incident Ayesha Akram — in a supplementary statement — has nominated her associate Amir Sohail alias Rambo, for planning to go to Minar-e-Pakistan, Dawn News reported.

    Rambo in a video statement has said that he did not plan to go with Ayesha that day but that he went with her after someone else backed out. He continued by adding that what happened at Minar-e-Pakistan was neither his nor Ayesha’s fault.

    She also accused Rambo of making obscene videos of her and blackmailing her. “I have been giving half of my salary to him,” she said, adding that Rambo —along with one of his partners, Badshah — had been running a “TikTok gang”. Rambo has been arrested, Dawn reported.

    A video went viral on social media in August that showed a woman being sexually assaulted by a large group of men at Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore on August 14, Pakistan’s Independence Day. The incident was later confirmed after a First Information Report (FIR) was registered. The incident sparked nationwide protests.

  • Young doctors boycott hospital services across the country

    The Young Doctors’ Association (YDA) on Wednesday boycotted Out-Patient Department (OPD) services across the country, Daily Times reported.
    They are protesting against torture of their colleagues in Islamabad during a protest outside Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC).

    According to the YDA spokesperson, only emergency services are being provided at the hospital. The move comes a day after police manhandled their fellow doctors in the federal capital during a protest against National Licensing Examination (NLE).

    They criticised the government and the doctors said that this is the first time in the country’s history that the police brutally attacked doctors.

    The protests are causing severe difficulties to the patients coming to the hospitals.
    Services Hospital Lahore have suspended their services.

    In Faisalabad, the doctors from the YDA platform have suspended OPDs and also the operation theatre services at the Allied Hospital. They also staged a protest and strongly condemned the torture and arrest of their colleagues in Islamabad. They vowed not to accept NLE law at any cost.

    Hundreds of young doctors across the country have been protesting against the PMC. The doctors have demanded that the compulsion to sit the National Licensing Exam should be withdrawn.

    The Pakistan Medical Commission has announced that in order to practice in Pakistan, doctors will have to take a licensing exam after completing five years of education.

    Young doctors say the additional examination was unfair as they had already passed the same exam to obtain their MBBS degrees.

    On Tuesday, at least 20 doctors were arrested after they tried to enter the PMC building. The Islamabad police baton-charged the protesters.

  • Punjab govt suspends health officers over Nawaz’s fake vaccination entry

    Punjab govt suspends health officers over Nawaz’s fake vaccination entry

    The Punjab government suspended the Medical Superintendent (MS) and a senior doctor of Lahore’s Kot Khawaja Saeed Hospital over Nawaz Sharif’s fake vaccination entry case.

    MS Ahmed Nadeem and Dr Munir Ahmed have been asked to report directly to the health department, reported Geo News.

    According to the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) watchman, Abul Hassan and ward boy Adil used the ID of a third employee, Naveed, to enter Sharif’s fake data into the system. Police registered cases against the three of them and arrested Abul Hassan and Adil.

    Moreover, the investigative team comprising officials from FIA and the provincial health department have seized important records from the hospital.

    A four-member team presented a report before Punjab Chief Minister (CM) Usman Buzdar. The National Command and Operations Centre (NCOC) summoned the Punjab health secretary to Islamabad.

    A fake entry was made on the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) portal, which said that Nawaz, who is currently in London, was administered the first dose of Sinovac on September 22 and he is due to receive the second dose next month. The entry was later deleted from NADRA portal.

    Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Vice President Maryam Nawaz said, “Just like this fake government, its vaccination record and entry data for vaccines is also fake.”

  • VIDEO: Man arrested for harassing women at Lahore bus stop

    The Punjab police detained a man on Thursday for harassing three women waiting at a bus stop in Lahore.

    A Twitter user, Hasna Khan Dasti, posted a video that shows a man advancing towards the women who were running away from him.

    https://twitter.com/HasnaDasti/status/1440993562951393283?s=20

    Soon after the video did the rounds on social media, the Punjab police shared a picture of the suspect in custody, saying that the police had registered a case and arrested the suspect.

    Since the Minar-e-Pakistan incident, the number of sexual harassment and assault cases has increased up to 300 per cent in Lahore.

    A police report stated that during the past 1.5 months, 642 cases of sexual harassment were registered under sections 354, 354-A and 509-B as compared to the number of incidents up to less than 150 that had been reported before August 14.

    Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Shariq Jamal Khan said that the ratio of sexual assault and harassment cases was high in the past but previously people used to avoid registering cases.

    He added that the actions related to the accused in the incident of Greater Iqbal Park have encouraged the women to report such cases. He said that the authorities will take strict action in such cases.

  • Sexual harassment incidents up by 300% in Lahore

    Since the Minar-e-Pakistan incident, the number of sexual harassment cases has increased up to 300 per cent in Lahore.

    A police report stated that during the past 1.5 months, 642 cases of sexual harassment were registered under sections 354, 354-A and 509-B as compared to the number of incidents up to less than 150 that had been reported before August 14, reports ARY News.

    Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Shariq Jamal Khan said that the ratio of harassment cases was high in the past but previously people used to avoid registering cases.

    He added that the actions related to the accused in the incident of Greater Iqbal Park have encouraged the women to report such cases. He said that the authorities will take strict action in such cases.

  • Mother of two raped in Rawalpindi at job interview

    Mother of two raped in Rawalpindi at job interview

    A woman who went to Rawalpindi from Lahore was raped by an unidentified man who promised to give her a job after an interview, Dawn reported.

    As per details, the victim, a mother of two, reported to Race Course police that she along with her family were in a department store when a man came to them and distributed property advertisement pamphlets.

    She said she took a pamphlet and informed her husband about the advertisement, who later contacted a man for further details. The man told her husband to come to Rawalpindi where he could arrange a job for her in his project.

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    Later, the woman with her husband and children went to Rawalpindi and reached Saddar where the man was waiting for them in a black car. Upon reaching Saddar, the husband was asked to stay there with his children as the man would take his wife for an interview and come back soon.

    She said she was taken to a hotel situated and asked to wait at the reception until her turn for an interview. She said although she resisted going into a hotel room, she was taken to a room where she was asked to wait, adding the suspect locked the door from inside, raped her and escaped.

    She said that as he was fleeing, she shouted and tried to catch him but he was able to run away.

    Police said medical examination of the victim was carried out and the suspect was arrested by Race Course police. He will be presented before a court of law for remand custody.