Posts Tagged ‘Sialkot’

SC directs early arrest of absconding cops

ISLAMABAD – The Supreme Court on Thursday termed the statement of Advocate General Punjab Khawaja Haris unsatisfactory and directed police to ensure the early arrest of absconder police officials involved in an incident of two brothers’ killing in Sialkot.
The two brothers Hafiz Mughees and Muneeb were brutally beaten to…

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SC orders arrest of Sialkot police officials

The Supreme Court on Thursday directed for immediate arrest of absconding police officials involved in Sialkot incident in which two brothers were lynched by a mob in their presence. A three-member bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalil-ur-Rehman Ramday set Sept 6 as deadline…

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Slain brothers were not robbers

ISLAMABAD – Much anxiously awaited Justice (Retd) Kazim Ali Malik’s report on the brutal killing of two brothers in Sialkot has failed to trace out the real motives that contributed to the incident, however, the report has clearly stated that Hafiz Mughees and Muneeb were not robbers or criminal at…

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Seventeen culprits of Sialkot lynching in custody

Seventeen of the eighteen culprits of the Sialkot lynching have been arrested. This was stated by Additional IG Mushtaq Sukhera while addressing a press conference in Sialkot on Sunday. Sukhera, who is heading the joint investigation team probing the incident, said that said that six out of ten police officials…

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JI submits adjournment motion in Senate against Sialkot lynching, US drone attacks, power tariff

Jamaat-e-Islami on Friday moved adjournment motion in the Upper House against Sialkot barbarism, drone attacks that has killed some 476 innocent people since 2010 and NEPRA bomb shell on masses.
The Senators hailing from JI including Senator Professor Khursheed Ahmed, Professor Ibrar, Afia Zia and others submitted adjournment motion against…

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Sialkot Lynching case: NA body summons DCO, DPO on Sept 1

National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights has summoned the DCO and DPO in next meeting on September 1 in the Sialkot Lynching case. Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights Riaz Fatyana taking the notice of lynching of two brothers in Sialkot has summoned the DCO…

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Sialkot Lynching case: NA body summons DCO, DPO on Sept 1

National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights has summoned the DCO and DPO in next meeting on September 1 in the Sialkot Lynching case. Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights Riaz Fatyana taking the notice of lynching of two brothers in Sialkot has summoned the DCO…

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Sialkot Lynching case: NA body summons DCO, DPO on Sept 1

National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights has summoned the DCO and DPO in next meeting on September 1 in the Sialkot Lynching case. Chairman of the National Assembly Standing Committee for Human Rights Riaz Fatyana taking the notice of lynching of two brothers in Sialkot has summoned the DCO…

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Imran concerned over growing incidents of police torture

ISLAMABAD – Chairman of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Imran Khan while expressing his extreme concern over the growing incidents of police torture in the country like the one happening in Sialkot recently has ascribed them to the politicisation of the police and civil servants.
In a press statement issued on…

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Probing body completes report of Sialkot incident

The commission set up to probe the gruesome lynching of two brothers in Silakot has completed its report. During a press briefing on Tuesday, head of Supreme Court’s inquiry commission Justice (r) Kazim Ali Malik has said that truth has been found. However, he would submit the report to the…

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Shahbaz orders Sialkot DPO’s detention

SIALKOT – Punjab Chief Minister Mian Shahbaz Sharif Sunday afternoon gave a 48-hour deadline to Inspector General of Police Tariq Saleem Dogar for arresting all the accused, including the fugitive police officials, involved in the lynching of two innocent brothers in Sialkot a week ago.
He formed a high-level inquiry…

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Killers to be hanged on the same spot: Malik

SIALKOT – Punjab Governor Salman Taseer and Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Sunday visited the bereaved family of two youths who were lynched by an angry mob to console with them at Hajipura.
Talking to the newsmen, they termed the incident a national tragedy and asked the people to help…

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Angry mob attacks Rescue 1122 centre

SIALKOT – Hundreds of people, majority of them Jamaat-e-Islami and Shabab-e-Milli activists, Sunday afternoon attacked the Rescue 1122 Daska Road centre as a protest against the Rescue 1122 officials failure in saving the two innocent brothers from lynching on August 15.
The infuriated mob made hostage all the staff members…

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PM suspends DPO Sialkot

ISLAMABAD – Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani expressed anguish and distress over the regretful event of Sialkot and ordered for the suspension of DPO Waqar Chohan, a Police Service of Pakistan officer on deputation with the provincial government.
The suspension of the officer was recommended by Chief Minister of…

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Malik terms ‘Sialkot incident’ as national dilemma

Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik termed ‘Sialkot-incident’ as a national dilemma and reiterated that all the elements including police personnel involved in the incident would be punished strictly.
Governor Punjab Salmaan Taseer and Federal interior minister Rehman Malik visited the home of two brothers Mughees,17, Muneeb,15, here on Sunday, who…

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President orders inquiry into Sialkot, Bahawalpur incidents

ISLAMABAD (Online) – President Asif Ali Zardari has strongly condemned the killing of two brothers by a mob in Sialkot and police torture on female students of medical college at Bahawalpur and called for report and inquiry into the gruesome incidents.
Spokesperson to the President, Farhatullah Babar said that…

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JI says ‘Punjab a police state’

LAHORE – Ameer Jama’at-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hasan and Secretary General Liaquat Baloch have said the brutal killing of two real brothers in Sialkot in police presence and the lathi charge on female students of Bahawalpur Medical College showed that the Punjab had been turned into a police state.
In a…

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