“It becomes an extremely difficult task dealing with humongous mobs turning up during our counter-insurgency operations,” Nalin Prabhat, Inspector General of the paramilitary Central Reserve Police Force, said...
“We are now having to fight two-way battles, with the armed militants on one hand and fearless mobs on the other,” another police officer said...
Police sources said that the department figured they would not meet much resistance, given their experience with the mobs on the day of Qadri’s funeral...
Although his office released a number of statements on separate matters, there was no word on any action being taken against the mobs that were ransacking the capital...
But the recent killing of at least three Muslims suspected of eating beef or smuggling cows by Hindu mobs have heightened fears of rising violence against India's religious minorities...
Mobs set fire to Muslim-owned businesses and attacked a mosque in the east of the country last week after a Muslim chef was accused of adding contraceptives to food sold to Sinhalese customers...
“The state can never allow our streets to be overrun by far-right mobs,” said Bild daily, adding that at the same time, Berlin needs to promptly deport criminal foreigners...
Soldiers in armoured vehicles patrolled the towns hit by sectarian violence this week as residents recalled how Muslims had hid in paddy fields to escape mobs carrying rods and swords, incensed over the militant attacks...
Mobs moved through towns in Sri Lanka's northwest on motorbikes and in buses, ransacking mosques, burning copies of the Holy Quran and attacking shops with petrol bombs in rioting that began on Sunday, Muslim...
PATNA: Angry mobs in eastern India set fire to train carriages on Wednesday in protests over access to railway jobs that have seen police violently disperse crowds with tear gas and baton charges...
• Body submits findings to govt about lynching of telecom workers • Emphasises need for taking strict action against rumour-mongersKARACHI: A fact-finding committee of the Sindh government tasked with looking into the last month’s lynching of two telecom company employees in Machhar Colony has recommended special training of police force for mob handling following recent rise in incidents of violence based on rumours and hearsay...
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All of us complain about the education system in the country and say we want things to change but so we see enough of that sentiment in pop culture?Addressing that issue, musical campaign Gao Suno Badlo released ‘Taleem Ki Chutti,’ a satirical song about the current education system...
Bearing semblance to Begherat Brigade’s ‘Dhinak Dhinak’ in composition, 'Taleem Ki Chutti' has been sung by Muhammad Umair Ahmad and is produced under the...
Iranians responded with anger and mockery on Saturday to the bellicose criticism of their government by the United States President Donald Trump who threatened to tear up the landmark nuclear deal...
Trump's use of the phrase “Arabian Gulf” rather than “Persian Gulf” particularly hit a nerve in a country with a fierce nationalistic streak
PESHAWAR: The law-enforcement agencies in collaboration with the Rescue Service 1122 conducted a mock operation at Haji Camp bus stand here on Sunday to prepare for facing any untoward incident in future...
The rehearsal of mock operations, they said was meant to make the law enforcement agencies personnel realise the fact that they were still fighting the war on terror...
LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) central leader Shah Mahmood Qureshi said on Friday the Sharif brothers should keep in mind that their rule was a blessing of lawyers’ movement aimed at restoration of democracy and independent judiciary in the country...
He was speaking at a condolence reference held by the Insaf Lawyers Forum in Karachi Shuhada Hall of the Lahore High Court Bar Association for the lawyers killed in Daska
PESHAWAR: The law-enforcement agencies on Friday evening conducted a mock security exercise in the jurisdiction of the West Cantonment police station for checking their response time in case of a terrorist attack...
“It was a mock exercise that proved to be very fruitful in achieving the goal...
KARACHI: Hundreds of students of the Jinnah University for Women on Tuesday attended Sindh police’s hostile environment awareness training on their campus which saw them screaming when the commandos of the Special Security Unit (SSU) staged a mock gun battle with armed attackers and killed them amid smoke, explosions and gunfire...
All this was part of a mock exercise to give the girl students a real feel of such a situation and...
WASHINGTON: An advocacy group is offering Donald Trump "sensitivity training" after the Republican presidential candidate "appeared to mock" a New York Times reporter with a disability...
“It is unacceptable for a child to mock another child's disability on the playground, never mind a presidential candidate mocking someone's disability as part of a national political discourse,” he said...