Three villagers kidnapped on February 28, 2017SHIKARPUR: At least two dozen kidnappers captured three villagers from the village of Salih Dhamiyo, in the limits of Bachal Bhayo Police Station, about 50 kilometers from Shikarpur, on Monday. Reportedly, at least two dozen Dhamiyo community members attacked the village of Salih Dhamiyo and succeeded in kidnapping three of the villagers; Abdul Wahab, Ahsan, […]
Conference on census awareness held in Shikarpur on February 27, 2017SHIKARPUR: Speakers have urged members of all parties to ensuretheir participation in the up-coming house listing and census, which will begin on the 15th of April this year. This was stressed at an all parties’ conferencearranged by Qaumi Awami Tehreek Shikarpur chapter, at Shikarpur Press Club on Sunday. The speakers included Zahid Ghalo, the divisional […]
DC orders citizens to adopt fresh security SOPs on February 26, 2017SHIKARPUR: The peace committee Shikarpur organized a high level meeting to deal with the threat of terrorism, at Deputy Commissioner Office here on Saturday. DC Shikarpur, Syed Hassan Raza, presided over the meeting while SSP Shikarpur Zeeshan Siddiqui, DSR Ranger Manzoor Ahmed, the representatives of religious parties, private schools, chamber of commerce, filling stations, and […]
Police recovered 3 hostages from dacoits after encounter on February 25, 2017KANDHKOT: Police recovered three hostages from dacoits after an encounter at Katcha area of Durrani Mahar police station, on early Friday morning. According to police, a vehicle driver, a cleaner, and another occupant of the vehicle named Allah Bux, Rasheed and Muhammad Bilal Awan, resident of Punjab province, were kidnapped by unidentified armed bandits, when […]
Three kidnapped in Kandhkot; two policemen injured during encounter on February 24, 2017KANDHKOT: Three persons, including a driver and a cleaner of a vehicle, were kidnapped by dacoits, in the jurisdiction of Ghoraghat Police Station, in Kandhkot on Thursday. According to SHO Ghoraghat, Umeed Ali Jagirani, a trawler driver, its cleaner, and another occupant named Allah Bux, were allegedly kidnapped by a few armed dacoits when they […]
9 Afghan nationals held in northern Sindh districts on February 20, 2017JACOBABAD/SHIKARPUR: The Jacobabad CIA team arrested 08 Afghan citizen and Shikarpur Police have arrested 01 afghan citizen, on early Sunday morning. According to CIA In-charge Jacobabad, Sharif Mahar, after the Sehwan Sharif bombing Jacobabad Police has taken strict measures in the district. During spot checking, CIA police have succeeded in arresting 08 Afghan citizens, However […]
Security of religious places in northern Sindh tightened on February 17, 2017SHIKARPUR: The businessmen and notables of Shikarpur strongly condemned the massacre incident at the Dargah of spiritual leader Qalandar Lal Shahbaz, during a Dhamal at Sehwan Sharif and shutdown their businesses to express solidarity with victims of the Sehwan massacre and termed it a security lapse, here on Friday. Security measures have been tightened around […]
Boys Scouts Association demand authorities to address sewerage issues on February 3, 2017SHIKARPUR, February, 02: Sindh Boys Scouts Association, Divisional Scouts Organizer, Haji Shoukat Ali Baloch, strongly condemned the drain out of sewerage water of Arain Colony towards Divisional Scouts Headquarters Shikarpur, which hampering, the construction and renovation work at divisional scouts headquarters is causing interruptions in the work while the drainage water deliberately is now stored […]
Five killed, 20 injured as passenger coach collides with coaster on January 10, 2017KANDHKOT: At least five people were killed and 20 others injured in a head-on collision between a passenger coach and a coaster at Dari Stop near Ghouspur Town on the Indus Highway on Monday evening. Police and rescue officials said that the coaster collided head-on with the Peshawar-bound coach due to overspeeding near Ghouspur Town […]
Shikarpur records an alarming rise in hepatitis cases on December 29, 2016SHIKARPUR: As per the chief minister’s initiative to make Sindh free of Hepatitis through the Hepatitis Prevention & Control Program (HPCP), as many as 551 patients of the Hepatitis C, 133 of Hepatitis B and 102 of Hepatitis D have been registered between January 2015 to November 2016, according to OPD’s record of the RBUT […]