A traffic warden in Lahore has won the title of Mr Lahore, 24 NewsHD TV has reported. As per details, the traffic warden named Waseem Arshad has secured the title after winning a bodybuilding competition 2023.
Waseem Arshad was the runner-up in the Mr Lahore competition last year, which was held in January 2022.
City Traffic Police (CTO) Dr Asad Malhi invited him to his office for encouragement.
In August 2022, Assistant Sub-Inspector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police, Ijaz Khan, won a bronze medal in the Mr Olympia bodybuilding competition.
Lahore Chief Traffic Officer has suspended a traffic warden for snatching phone of a woman who was filming the traffic police officials as they beat up a motorcyclist in the provincial capital.
This incident filmed by the woman who claimed to be a media professional took place near MAO College, Rivaz Garden. In the video, two officials of the Lahore traffic police are seen manhandling a youth over alleged misbehaviour with a rickshaw driver.
The wardens also tried to snatch the mobile phone of the woman recording the incident. As a warden, who has now been suspended, tried to grab her phone, the woman resisted, saying she’s a media professional.
But the traffic warden managed to take away her phone, garnering an angry response from the woman, who can be seen wearing a black shirt in the video shot by another phone.
The woman lashed out at the police official and asked her what gave him the authority to censor her voice. The second warden was seen trying to calm the woman down but without any avail.
Taking notice of the incident, the Lahore CTO suspended the police official for snatching the phone of the woman. About the youth who was being beaten up by the traffic police officials, the wardens said that the youth tried to assault and misbehave with a rickshaw driver.
Lahore Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Umar Sheikh on Wednesday was fined by a Traffic Police cop for using his phone while driving.
According to reports, Sheikh was on a call when his private vehicle was pulled over by the traffic warden to penalise him.
The top cop, who reports said was on a routine drive to visit different areas of the provincial capital and monitor the security situation there, was served a Rs500 fine.
CCPO Umar Sheikh appreciated the traffic warden over implementing the rules and regulations.
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A day earlier, the Punjab government removed Shoaib Dastgir from the post of inspector general of police (IGP), making him the fifth officer to be asked to relinquish the office since the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) government took the reins.
The development had followed Dastgir refusing to work under the PTI government over the recent appointment of Umar Sheikh as the Lahore CCPO without his consultation, and had asked the chief minister (CM) to transfer him to a “suitable location”.
A separate notification added that Inam Ghani, a BS-21 officer of the Police Service of Pakistan, has been made the new provincial police chief. Ghani is the sixth IGP to assume charge within the past two years.
