Friday, November 26, 2010
KARACHI: Rangers have arrested many suspected miscreants amid crackdown carried out in several parts in Karachi on late Thursday, Geo News reported.

Those areas saw arrests included Sultanabad, Hijrat Colony, Quaid-e-Azam Colony, Gulistan-e-Johar, Quaidabad and Kati Pahari.

Earlier after making a number of arrests amid joint search operation carried out by police and rangers personnel, security forces did not seem admitting such actions but later, after Geo News aired the news with video footages, rangers officials were forced to make statements over arrests of suspected men in Karachi.

Rangers, though admitted carrying out raids and arrests in parts of Karachi, did not agree to release information relating to incidents.

Rangers’ officials said they have launched a series of crackdowns against criminal elements in...

Singer George Michael has been cautioned after being arrested in a public toilet for possession of drugs, thought to include crack cocaine.

A 45-year-old man was arrested on 19 September on suspicion of possession of drugs in the Hampstead Heath area, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said.

The singer was taken to a police station and given the caution for possessing class A and class C drugs.

Home Office Minister Tony McNulty said drug laws needed to be flexible.
Asked why Michael had been given a relatively mild punishment for the possession of class A drugs, Mr McNulty said he did not know the details of the case.


George Michael has been in trouble with police before
But he added that the law provides a wide range of punishments for possession of drugs, and circumstances and context had to be applied.

The Home Office website says possession of class A drugs can result in up to seven years in prison,...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: World cricket’s top administrator has insisted officials are “extremely vigilant” when it comes to ‘spot-fixing’ after Pakistan’s Danish Kaneria was arrested in a betting probe.

But International Cricket Council (ICC) president David Morgan, in an interview with AFP here in Barbados on the eve of the World Twenty20 final between Australia and England, insisted: “I can honestly say to you that I have no knowledge of any spot-fixing that I am refusing to tell you about.”

Kaneria and a colleague at English county side Essex, Mervyn Westfield, have been arrested in connection with a police investigation into betting, a club official confirmed on Saturday.

Both Test leg-spinner Kaneria, 29, and 22-year-old pace bowler Westfield were questioned on Friday before being released on bail.

It is understood the match under scrutiny was a 40-over win against Durham last September. The...