A Voice of the Unheard Tuesday, October 6, 2026
GUWAHATI: Police in India’s northeastern state of Assam are investigating the death of Nimisha Thakuria as a suspected murder. Thakuria was a 22-year-old sociology student at Gauhati University. The man arrested in the case, 26-year-old Ashiq Ali, says she took her own life. Investigators have not accepted that account, and the postmortem report is awaited,...
LAHORE: Journalist Saima Nawaz has thanked the Lahore Police and the Punjab Safe Cities Authority after her stolen car was recovered undamaged, days after it was taken from outside the gate of the Lahore Press Club. The Suzuki Mehran was tracked by Safe City cameras across several districts, even though the thieves had replaced its...
LAHORE: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has arrested a man who was allegedly posing as an FIA sub-inspector. He was wearing the agency’s uniform and using its badges. The FIA’s Anti-Corruption Circle arrested him at the office of the Lahore Electric Supply Company’s (LESCO) Raiwind Division. An FIA spokesperson identified the suspect as Rizwan. He...
LAHORE: Baghbanpura police have stopped a large drug consignment and arrested three dealers allegedly linked to a network that operates across several districts. The raid was part of a city-wide crackdown ordered by DIG Operations Faisal Kamran. Police in Gujjarpura and Old Anarkali arrested two more suspects in separate operations. According to a police spokesperson,...
LAHORE: A woman in Township says armed men, some in police uniform and others in plain clothes, entered her home and robbed her family at gunpoint. She also says the local police station refused to accept her complaint. She has now taken the matter to a senior police officer. The victim, identified as Mehwish, says...
LAHORE: Thieves stole a car belonging to journalist Saima Nawaz from outside the gate of the Lahore Press Club. The theft happened in the evening, in a little over an hour. CCTV footage of the incident has since come to light. Saima Nawaz parked her car outside the Press Club at 7pm. When she came...
Barkat Masih gets the death penalty and a Rs50,000 fine; son-in-law Yaqoob Masih is jailed for two years. The sentence now goes to the Lahore High Court for confirmation. LAHORE: An Additional Sessions Judge in Lahore has sentenced a man to death for honour-related murdering his daughter. Judge Afzal Ahmad Saqib found Barkat Masih guilty...
LAHORE: Lahore police registered 39,624 theft cases and 1,472 burglaries in the first eight months of 2026 — about 163 thefts and six burglaries every day, according to police records reported on Sunday. Three weeks earlier, Lahore Operations Police said overall crime had fallen by 76 percent and emergency 15 calls by 84 percent. Both...
LAHORE: Lahore police arrested four men in three cases of sexual violence and harassment against women reported on Monday. In the most serious, two men allegedly drugged a married couple who had come to one of them for temporary accommodation, then raped the wife while both were unconscious. In Sundar, a man allegedly raped a...
LAHORE: Lahore police arrested five men in separate cases of sexual abuse, attempted sexual abuse and harassment of children in Nishtar Colony, Defence, Manga Mandi, Shalimar and Baghbanpura. The victims were three boys — aged nine, ten, and a younger child whose age was not disclosed — and two girls, one of them 16 and...