Blaze News - Pakistan

A 15-year-old orphan girl was allegedly abducted and raped by four men in the Civil Lines police station area of Rawalpindi. Details of the haunting case reveal that the assaulters allegedly posed as suitors to lure the victim, A, then made explicit images and videos of her after intoxicating her. They then proceeded to blackmail and threaten the mother of the victim. The police have registered a case but the perpetrators have not yet been apprehended. The case was reported by M from Kamalabad, who reported that her 15-year-old daughter was deceived by a boy named Zahid Ali, who she had befriend over the phone. She alleged that Zahid had lured the victim to come to his house with the promise that he would marry her. M, along with her other daughter were out when A packed up five tolas of jewellery and some clothes to leave the house. Zahid, and his friend Osama, came to pick her up in a white car, and took her to a house in Shani Colony, where two men and a woman were already present. ...

A preliminary investigation into Monday’s shooting incident that claimed the life of a Dolphin Force personnel in Rawalpindi and injured another revealed that suspects behind the attack belonged to a proscribed outfit. The main suspect, identified as Younis, and other high-profile individuals involved in the incident, managed to flee the scene and are currently at large. Moreover, the assailants used 30-bore pistols during the attack, which took place on Murree Road – a major thoroughfare connecting the twin cities of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Efforts to apprehend the fugitives have led law enforcement teams to areas like Dera Ismail Khan and Tank, where the suspects are believed to be hiding, sources privy to the developments said. Further investigations revealed that the vehicle used in the crime was rented from Dera Ismail Khan. Inside the vehicle, authorities recovered a mobile phone, a firearms license, and photographs belonging to the perpetrators. These items, along with the veh...

A CCTV footage capturing a glimpse of a goat roaming inside the security fence of the motorway and a patrolling official catching the mammal by ear and dragging her became viral on social media. The incident took place near Fateh Jang. According to the motorway police, a local brought the cattle inside the protective fence of the motorway’s territory, risking an accident. Officials took protective custody of the goat and later returned to the owner who conceded his mistake. In the viral video, a motorway police officer could be seen grabbing a goat by its ear from among other cattle grazing a few feet below the motorway. Another man in plainclothes could also be seen helping the unformed cop and putting the goat in a motorway police vehicle. The makers of the video could be heard describing the action of the motorway police as goat theft and visiting the office to bring the animal back. Interestingly, some other cattle could be seen grazing within the same fence regardless of the situa...

Former prime minister Shahid Abbasi has said that the upcoming general elections will be the most “controversial” ones in the country’s history, urging the political leadership to make them “non-controversial”. The estranged PML-N leader made the remarks while speaking to the media in Rawalpindi. Abbasi had developed differences with the party leadership over the last year. In February last year, he had resigned as the party’s senior vice president in an effort to give Chief Organiser Maryam Nawaz an “open field”. During the media talk, Abbasi also said he had decided against contesting the Feb 8 polls but had not quit politics, terming the elections “useless”. The former prime minister highlighted that it was the responsibility of Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Sultan Raja, Chief Justice of Pakistan Qazi Faez Isa and caretaker premier Anwaarul Haq Kakar to ensure that the upcoming elections were “non-controversial”. “I become more satisfied with each passing day that I made the ...