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1 week ago | 
dawn.com | Kalbe Ali |Mohammad Asghar
ISLAMABAD: At least three people were killed in Rawalpindi and Gujar Khan on Wednesday after an intense hailstorm, accompanied by heavy rain and gusty winds, battered the region. According to sources, two people died in the Sohawa area of Gujar Khan when a wall collapsed on individuals passing through a street in Sohawa Town. Four others in the same area were critically injured. Head injuries were cited as the cause behind the deaths of the deceased.
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4 weeks ago | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Zahid Hussain |Mahir Ali
RAWALPINDI: The rising crime wave in the garrison city forced senior police officials to go into a session and devise a strategy on Tuesday. However, more than 60 cases of street crime were reported to the police. In one of the biggest robberies, employees of a private company were robbed of Rs9 million by two motorcycle riders at Rawal Road, while a family was deprived of cash and jewellery worth Rs5 million by burglars who broke into their house in Naseerabad.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Umair Javed
RAWALPINDI: Four suspects, including two women, were detained after exhumation of the body of an orphan girl who was killed by poisoning after being subjected to sexual assault and torture for several months allegedly by her brother-in-law and his accomplice. The exhumation revealed that the girl was eight months pregnant when she was poisoned in the limits of the Jatli police station and buried by the suspects to cover up the crime.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Mahir Ali
RAWALPINDI: A team from the UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) and Civil Aviation Authority has started the audit of Pakistan’s aviation safety standards. PIA flights to Europe recently resumed after four years, but the ban on flights to the UK was yet to be lifted. The audit would be another step in efforts to resume operations of Pakistani airlines to the UK, a spokesman for the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority (PCAA) said.
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2 months ago | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Maleeha Lodhi |Abbas Nasir
RAWALPINDI: Another PIA stewardess has been suspended for allegedly smuggling mobile phones into Pakistan, bringing the total number to eight crew members to face punitive action. The latest action followed the suspension of five crew members last week after authorities recovered a cache of smartphones from their possession upon return from Dubai. Two crew members were earlier dismissed over similar allegations.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Jawed Naqvi
RAWALPINDI: The police have added a murder section (302 PPC) to the kidnapping case of a four-year-old boy, Arshman, who had been missing for about two months before his body was found in a pond in Rawat on Saturday. “The boy’s body was between a week and 10 days old, but it wasn’t two months old. However, the actual circumstances in which the boy was killed will be known after the final postmortem report is received,” as per the police and the initial postmortem examination report.
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Jan 21, 2025 | dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Jawed Naqvi
RAWALPINDI: The police have added a murder section (302 PPC) to the kidnapping case of a four-year-old boy, Arshman, who had been missing for about two months before his body was found in a pond in Rawat on Saturday. “The boy’s body was between a week and 10 days old, but it wasn’t two months old. However, the actual circumstances in which the boy was killed will be known after the final postmortem report is received,” as per the police and the initial postmortem examination report.
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Jan 21, 2025 | dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar |Jawed Naqvi
RAWALPINDI: The police have added a murder section (302 PPC) to the kidnapping case of a four-year-old boy, Arshman, who had been missing for about two months before his body was found in a pond in Rawat on Saturday. “The boy’s body was between a week and 10 days old, but it wasn’t two months old. However, the actual circumstances in which the boy was killed will be known after the final postmortem report is received,” as per the police and the initial postmortem examination report.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar
RAWALPINDI: A man was shot dead while his gunman was injured outside an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Rawalpindi on Wednesday. The daylight attack poked holes in security measures put in place for visitors and suspects facing cases registered under anti-terrorism charges. According to sources, the assailants fled the scene after carrying out the deadly attack as security personnel watched helplessly.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
dawn.com | Mohammad Asghar
RAWALPINDI: A suspect arrested in connection with a murder case was killed in an alleged police encounter in Rawalpindi, police said on Sunday. According to a spokesperson for the Rawalpindi police, the case unfolded when accomplices of the suspect tried to free him from police custody while he was being taken to the crime scene for recovery of the weapon used in his alleged crime.
