July 15, 2021
PESHAWAR: Increase in robberies have been reported in the last several weeks as more people were robbed of cash in Gulbahar and Shah Qabool in broad daylight on Wednesday.
An official confirmed that two people had been robbed in the limits of Gulbahar and Shah Qabool police stations.
He said police were investigating both cases. The official said that Shah Qabool police had collected CCTV footage after reports that a resident of Faisalabad, Mujahid, was robbed as he collected money from local traders.
Another citizen, Shabbir Ahmad, was robbed when armed men snatched cash from him after he collected it from a bank in the limits of Gulbahar Police Station.
Judicial probe sought into alleged torture on professor
Peshawar
December 29, 2020
PESHAWAR: The Citizens Rights Movement, a conglomerate of different rights-based organizations, on Monday staged a protest against the alleged torture on an associate professor at the Gulbahar Police Station and demanded a judicial probe into the incident.
The members of the rights-based bodies, including those from the Peace Foundation, Pakistan Writers Guild, Bazm-e-Bahar-e-Adab and others gathered at the Peshawar Press Club to voice anger at the alleged torture by the Gulbahar Police on Associate Professor Malik Arshad Hussain, a professor of English at the Government College of Management Sciences, Peshawar, and alleged maltreatment of his wife, Munazza Arshad, a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf active worker and her sister.