Pakistan Police Corrupt

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday summoned top officials and police officers after paramilitary Rangers dramatically arrested former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan in a corruption case from the court premises but reserved its ruling.

Over 10,000 armed Punjab police personnel launched a major operation at former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's residence in Lahore and claimed to have seized weapons and petrol bombs, hours after he left for Islamabad.

An arrest warrant for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was suspended on Friday, his lawyers said, clearing the way for him to end a holdout at his residence that led to bloody clashes between supporters and police earlier this week.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday alleged that the state wanted to "torture and kill him in police custody," a day after Punjab police failed to arrest him in a corruption case.

Police in Pakistan said officers on Sunday attempted to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, who is battling several legal cases as he pressures the government for early elections.

The United States has blacklisted former Karachi police officer Rao Anwar for "serious human rights abuses" during his term as Senior Superintendent Police for allegedly killing dozens of innocent people including Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud in "staged" police encounters.

Supporters of Nawaz Sharif clashed with police in Pakistan's Punjab province as they tried to reach the airport where the former prime minister and his daughter Maryam were arrested on upon their return from London, prompting police to lob tear gas shells and use batons that left at least 50 people injured.

Police in Pakistan engages in human rights violations such as "arbitrary arrest, torture, extra-judicial killings and sexual violence," with religious minorities especially vulnerable to the "disgruntled and corrupt" officers of the force, a global rights body said today in a damning report.

Pakistan Cricket Board legal advisor says there is no mechanism to force Asad Rauf to go to Mumbai in case summons are issued to him. Rauf has been named in the Mumbai Police chargesheet for his alleged involvement in match-fixing and betting.

A senior anti-graft investigator, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances while probing corruption charges against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, had apparently committed suicide, Pakistani police has told the Supreme Court.

Each day, the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court confronts a stack of blue folders stuffed with desperate pleas from residents claiming that corrupt police, inept prosecutors or moribund lower courts have failed them.

Pakistan's Judiciary and police have been ranked among the most corrupt institutions in the country in a survey by an international anti-graft watchdog.

The Islamabad High Court on Tuesday summoned top officials and police officers after paramilitary Rangers dramatically arrested former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan in a corruption case from the court premises but reserved its ruling.

Over 10,000 armed Punjab police personnel launched a major operation at former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan's residence in Lahore and claimed to have seized weapons and petrol bombs, hours after he left for Islamabad.

An arrest warrant for former Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan was suspended on Friday, his lawyers said, clearing the way for him to end a holdout at his residence that led to bloody clashes between supporters and police earlier this week.

Pakistan's ousted prime minister Imran Khan on Thursday alleged that the state wanted to "torture and kill him in police custody," a day after Punjab police failed to arrest him in a corruption case.

Police in Pakistan said officers on Sunday attempted to arrest former prime minister Imran Khan, who is battling several legal cases as he pressures the government for early elections.

The United States has blacklisted former Karachi police officer Rao Anwar for "serious human rights abuses" during his term as Senior Superintendent Police for allegedly killing dozens of innocent people including Waziristan native Naqeebullah Mehsud in "staged" police encounters.

Supporters of Nawaz Sharif clashed with police in Pakistan's Punjab province as they tried to reach the airport where the former prime minister and his daughter Maryam were arrested on upon their return from London, prompting police to lob tear gas shells and use batons that left at least 50 people injured.

Police in Pakistan engages in human rights violations such as "arbitrary arrest, torture, extra-judicial killings and sexual violence," with religious minorities especially vulnerable to the "disgruntled and corrupt" officers of the force, a global rights body said today in a damning report.

Pakistan Cricket Board legal advisor says there is no mechanism to force Asad Rauf to go to Mumbai in case summons are issued to him. Rauf has been named in the Mumbai Police chargesheet for his alleged involvement in match-fixing and betting.

A senior anti-graft investigator, who was found dead in mysterious circumstances while probing corruption charges against Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, had apparently committed suicide, Pakistani police has told the Supreme Court.

Each day, the chief justice of Pakistan's Supreme Court confronts a stack of blue folders stuffed with desperate pleas from residents claiming that corrupt police, inept prosecutors or moribund lower courts have failed them.

Pakistan's Judiciary and police have been ranked among the most corrupt institutions in the country in a survey by an international anti-graft watchdog.