Larkana | Pakistan

LARKANA: A suspect involved in the gang rape of a 15-year-old mentally challenged girl was killed in an alleged police encounter in Larkana on Sunday, police said. According to officials, the police launched a raid near Sailra Bypass in the Rato Dero area following intelligence reports about the presence of armed robbers. However, the suspects […]

SUKKUR: Larkana sessions judge and in-charge of Anti-Terrorism Court survived attack by a gang of highwaymen who opened fire on his car and his security detail following him in police mobile van on Khairpur-Larkana road late on Friday night. A police constable, Maqbool Sheikh, died and his colleagues, Iqbal Baloch and Safeer Ahmed Kehar, suffered gunshot wounds in the attack that took place within the jurisdiction of Tando Masti police station in Khairpur district. Police officials said the judge, Samkan Ahmed Mughal, and his security squad came under fire from the armed dacoits but the judge remained unharmed in the attack. The judge was on his way to Larkana last night after attending an event at the Sindh High Court’s Sukkur bench, they said. They said that the armed highwaymen were standing by the road within the limits of Tando Masti police station when they signaled the judge’s convoy to stop. In reply to media persons’ questions if it was a targeted attack on the judge and linked to some cases he was h...