SHO, constable suspended over Gulbahar Colony firing
National
April 30, 2021
PESHAWAR: The station house officer of Gulbahar Police Station was and head constable were suspended for not taking timely action against a group of armed men who had stormed a locality in Gulbahar No 4 and terrorized citizens, including woman and children, by resorting to heavy firing in bid to demolish by force a portion of the boundary wall.
The residents of Awan Street said their colony had 87 houses and a couple of plots of land along with a boundary wall. They said Awan Street with planned constructions, paved streets and proper sanitation has attracted the attention of people. The property prices have, hence, gone high there. That is why, they said, some greedy elements had acquired land contiguous to the Awan Street outside its boundary wall and wanted to include these lands in the colony to earn more profit. The residents said merging more areas with lands from the nearby villages would leave
Father seeks arrest of son’s killers
Peshawar
February 25, 2021
PESHAWAR: A resident of Rashid Ghari locality, Amanullah, along with his relatives staged a demonstration outside Peshawar Press Club on Wednesday and urged the government to arrest the killers of his son.
Carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans in favour of their demands, the protestors asked the chief minister and inspector general of police to provide them justice by arresting and punishing the culprits.
Amanullah told reporters that his son Asghar was a property dealer living in Gulbahar, where he died in suspicious circumstances in his house. Later, a post-mortem of the body confirmed he had died of poison.
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.