A Voice of the Unheard Tuesday, October 6, 2026
LAHORE: The Lahore police have taken action over an incident of an indecent act committed against a Community Health Inspector in Faisal Town, arresting the alleged suspect. According to the SP Model Town, the female Community Health Inspector was deployed on a visit in connection with official duty in the Faisal Town B Block area...
LAHORE: A regular inquiry has been ordered under the PEEDA Act 2006 against four officers over alleged irregularities in the recording of foreign currency and in the cash book at Data Darbar Lahore. According to the order, charges of misconduct, corruption and embezzlement have been levelled against all four officers. An inquiry committee has been...
LAHORE: Sanitary goods worth more than Rs5.6 million have been found missing at Mayo Hospital, according to an inquiry that has recommended formal disciplinary proceedings under the PEEDA Act. Goods worth Rs9.4 million were purchased, but only Rs3.8 million worth of material was physically present on site. The Mayo Hospital inquiry raised the question of...
LAHORE: The Lahore Police have arrested three men in two separate operations against illegal kite manufacturing and sale, recovering hundreds of ready-made kites and multiple spools of banned chemical-coated string, according to official statements issued by the Lahore Police Operations Wing. In the first action, Ravi Road Police arrested two suspects identified as Bilal and...
LAHORE: The Lahore Police have arrested six suspected drug peddlers and recovered more than eight kilograms of charas along with 240 grams of ice (crystal methamphetamine) in three separate operations carried out across the provincial capital, according to official statements issued by the Operations Wing of Lahore Police. Cases have been registered against all six...
LAHORE: The Lahore Police have arrested six suspects and recovered hundreds of kites, 17 spools of kite string and a quantity of kite-manufacturing material in a series of separate raids carried out across the Samanabad, Iqbal Town, Misri Shah and Shalimar police divisions, according to official statements issued by police authorities. According to an official...
LAHORE: The Shalimar Police have arrested a man accused of attempting to sexually abuse a 10-year-old girl, officials said, in a case that was reported and acted upon within hours of the incident coming to light. According to an official statement issued by police, the child was taken to a house on a pretext, where...
Eight-year-old Hakeemullah is the latest fatality in a pattern of open-manhole deaths that prompted arrests and a province-wide directive earlier this year LAHORE: An eight-year-old boy died this week after falling into an open manhole in the Hanjarwal area of Lahore, returning public attention to a hazard that has already produced arrests, suspensions and a...
Chief Traffic Officer writes to DIG Traffic Punjab and PITB seeking enforcement tools modelled on the existing e-challan system LAHORE: Chief Traffic Officer Lahore Syed Abdul Rahim Shirazi has proposed a comprehensive mechanism for recovering pending digital traffic challans, modelled on the enforcement architecture already operating under the e-challan system. According to a report published...
Committee reports corruption, bogus inspections and fake billing across more than a dozen accounts; anti-corruption referral and Establishment Division inquiry recommended LAHORE: A Punjab government inquiry has held the former commandant of the Police Training College (PTC), Lahore, and eight other officials responsible for financial irregularities exceeding Rs226 million, and the officer at the centre...