کراچی: پولیس نے رمضان المبارک کے دوران مقابلوں میں 80 دہشت گرد اور جرائم پیشہ عناصر ہلاک کیے ہیں۔

سندھ پولیس کی سیکیورٹی کے حوالے سے کاوشیں قابل تعریف ہیں، سیکڑوں جرائم پیشہ افراد گرفتارکیے گئے ہیں، یوم آزادی پر سیکیورٹی اقدامات پر مبنی ٹھوس منصوبہ بنایا جائے گا، ان خیالات کا اظہار آئی جی سندھ غلام حیدر جمالی نے امن و امان سے متعلق ایک اجلاس کی صدارت کرتے ہوئے رمضان اور عید کے دنوں میں سیکیورٹی اقدامات پر مبنی پولیس کارکردگی کا تفصیلی جائزہ لیتے ہوئے کیا۔

انھوں نے کہا کہ جرائم اور دہشت گردی کے واقعات کے خاتمے کے لیے مزید کوششیں کی جائیں اور انتہائی ذمے داری سے فرائض انجام دیے جائیں، پولیس کی کاوشیں قابل تعریف ہیں جس کا اندازہ اس بات سے لگایا جا سکتا ہے کہ گزشتہ ایک ماہ میں 80 سے زائد دہشت گرد اور جرائم پیشہ افراد پولیس مقابلوں میں مارے جاچکے ہیں جبکہ سیکڑوں کی تعداد میں گرفتاریاں کی گئی ہیں۔

آئی جی سندھ نے کہا کہ کامیاب پولیس کارروائیوں کے لیے کمیونٹی پولیسنگ کے عملی نفاذ کو یقینی بنایا جائے انھوں نے کھا کہ اس سلسلے میں درپیش مشکلات کو دور کیا جائے اور پولیس اور عوام کے باہمی اعتماد اور تعاون کے لیے ہر ممکنہ اقدامات کیے جائیں، آئی جی سندھ غلام حیدر جمالی نے کہا کہ آنے والے دنوں میں اور باالخصوص 14 اگست یوم آزادی کے حوالے سے تقریبات کے ضمن میں ابھی سے ہی جامع پلان ترتیب دیا جائے۔

Malaysia is offering illegal Indonesians safe return home without being prosecuted to avoid them making secret journeys in rickety boats after several fatal accidents ahead of the Eid al-Fitr festival, officials said Saturday.

At least four boats have sunk since last month as Indonesians, drawn to the relatively affluent Southeast Asian country for work, sought to go home for Eid al-Fitr, Islam s biggest festival, which starts in Malaysia on Monday.

The sinkings killed dozens and have left scores more missing.

Those wanting to return will be fined for being in Malaysia illegally, but will escape harsher prosecution, such as jail terms and caning, said a home ministry official who declined to be named as he is not authorised to make public statements.

Home Minister Zahid Hamidi was quoted by The Star on Saturday as saying this was a "golden chance" for undocumented migrants.

"The legal way will be safer with less hassle, compared to risking their lives while paying a hefty fine to syndicates" smuggling the migrants via sea, he told the daily newspaper.

An aide confirmed the comments.

In addition to the fine of at least 300 ringgit ($95), Indonesians have to pay 100 ringgit more for a one-way pass to return home.

The home ministry official did not say how much the maximum fine could be.

He added the programme was running from this month until the end of December, and could be extended to other nationals later.

Malaysia has repeatedly offered amnesty to migrants in the past in order to reduce its large population of illegal workers, estimated to number two million.

But activists have warned that many will not be able to afford high fines, in addition to processing fees charged by private agents who are used by some migrants, to secure safe trips.

"My concern is that we do not have a very clear policy. It s not really service-oriented but rather profit-driven," Alex Ong of Migrant Care told AFP, adding his group had received complaints by several migrants of being arrested despite the offer of a safe return.Going back illegally costs them about 1,500 ringgit.

Foreigners from neighbouring Indonesia and other mostly regional poorer countries are drawn by plantation, construction and other jobs shunned by Malaysians.

Boat accidents are common with three dead, eight missing and 10 rescued in the latest sinking off southern Malaysia on Thursday.

Both Malaysia and Indonesia are Muslim-majority countries with many observing the fasting month of Ramadan.
Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan and festivities run for several weeks.

British rocker Ian Watkins of the band Lostprophets on Wednesday failed in his bid to reduce his 35-year jail sentence for a string of child sex crimes including the attempted rape of a baby.

Court of Appeal judges in Cardiff told the 37-year-old singer they would not grant leave for appeal.

"These offences against children were of shocking depravity... a very lengthy prison sentence was demanded," said Christopher Pitchford, one of the judges considering the bid.

Last year, judge John Royce handed Watkins a 29-year jail term as well as an additional six years on licence after he admitted 13 offences, saying he had "plumbed new depths of depravity".

One of Watkins  two female accomplices also had her appeal bid turned down.

The singer, whose now-defunct band sold millions of albums around the world, plotted the abuse of two children with their own mothers in a series of text and Internet messages.

After sexually touching one groupie s 11-month-old baby son, the heavily-tattooed rocker then tried to have penetrative sex with the child.

He also encouraged a second fan to abuse her female child during a webcam chat and secretly stashed child porn videos, some of which he had made himself.

Flawed forensic work uncovered 17 years ago was used in the "tainted" convictions of some 60 US death row inmates, at least three of whom have since been executed, an FBI internal report said.

The problems were detected by the FBI s inspector general s office, which, in a 1997 report, found serious irregularities in the work of 13 examiners.

But in the years that followed, the US Justice Department failed to notify state justice officials that suspect testimony and flawed evidence had been used to secure some capital convictions, an inspector general s report said.

"The department and the FBI did not take sufficient steps to ensure that the capital cases were the... top priority and were treated with urgency," said the report released late Wednesday.

Specifically, FBI and Justice Department officials failed to let state penal officials know that the "convictions of capital defendants could be affected by involvement of any of the 13 criticized examiners."

Inmates in some instances were only told about irregularities with the evidence -- provided by investigators at an FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, outside Washington -- years after the fact.

One examiner in particular provided "faulty analysis and scientifically unsupportable testimony (that) contributed to the conviction of an innocent defendant who was exonerated 27 years later, and the reversal of at least five other defendants  convictions," the report said.

The review found that the time lag from when federal law enforcement learned of problems with the evidence, and when they notified their counterparts at the state level was "very prejudicial" for some inmates.

"For some, they caused irreversible harm," the IG s report said, which said that actions have been taken after the fact "to ensure these defendants received appropriate notice of the possibility that their convictions were supported by unreliable evidence."

The report said that management failures allowed the rogue examiners to practice for years, but that the problems have been dealt with and "most of the employees responsible for the review have left the Department or the FBI."

A Swedish court sentenced on Friday an Israeli asylum seeker who caused a major bomb scare in Stockholm to two years in prison.

Amram Ivri, a 43-year-old man whose asylum application had been turned down by Sweden, walked into the office of Swedish NGO Civil Rights Defenders on June 19 falsely claiming to have explosives strapped to his body.

He claimed he was from a "terrorist organisation" and threatened to detonate two bombs in the headquarters of Sweden s largest political parties, the Social Democrats and the Moderates.

Police officers cordoned off two large areas of central Stockholm after the man entered the offices of the charity.

The "bomb belt" turned out to be a dummy and he surrendered later the same day after negotiating with police on the telephone.

The Stockholm district court found him guilty of threats and false alarm and ruled that he be deported after serving his prison sentence. It also barred him from coming back to Sweden until 2024.

A Mumbai court convicted two teenage boys Tuesday over separate gang-rapes that shocked the city in a verdict that came days after an Indian minister said juvenile suspects should be treated as adults in rape cases.

Two 17-year-olds were found guilty -- one over the gang-rape of a photographer and another over the gang-rape of a telephone operator in the same abandoned mill compound in the city last year, public prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told AFP.

He said the pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would be sent to a reform institution in Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, for three years.

"They should keep good behaviour and vocational guidance will be given to them," Nikam added.

Three men were in April ordered to hang for their involvement in both the gang-rape cases, the first death sentences to be handed down for multiple sex attacks since the law was toughened last year.

Maneka Gandhi, Minister for Women and Child Development in Narendra Modi s new right-wing government, said on Sunday that juveniles accused of rape should be treated on a par with adults.

"For premeditated murder, rape, if we bring them into the purview of the adult world, then it will scare them," she told reporters in the southern city of Chennai.

A series of mass protests over the levels of sexual violence in India, sparked by the fatal gang-rape of a student in New Delhi late in 2012, prompted the government to amend the law and allow the death penalty for repeat rape offenders.

In the Delhi gang-rape case, the role played by a 17-year-old sparked a debate about whether under-18s convicted of serious crimes should be subject to harsher punishments.

A fourth man has been jailed for life over the telephone operator s rape and a fifth over the photographer s, which shook Mumbai as a city that had long been considered safer for women than the capital.

The 22-year-old photographer was attacked while on assignment with a male colleague in the overgrown mill compound, close to an upscale neighbourhood as well as slums from which most of the rapists hailed.

The phone operator, attacked in the same place, came forward after reading about the photographer s ordeal.

Turkish prosecutors have charged eight police officers with illegally eavesdropping on top officials including Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said Saturday.

The eight were charged with illegal wiretapping, as well as forging official documents, and were remanded in custody late Friday pending a possible trial, the state television channel TRT said.

Over one hundred serving and former police officers were arrested last week in dramatic raids as part of the wiretapping probe.

Twenty-six officers have so far been released to the delight of their supporters, who insist the investigation was politically motivated, coming just ahead of the August 10 presidential election in which Erdogan is standing.

The officers are accused of making up an investigation named "Selam-Tevhid" as cover to wiretap prominent figures since 2010, including Erdogan, journalists, cabinet members and the head of Turkey s National Intelligence Organisation (MIT), Hakan Fidan.

Prosecutors said earlier 2,280 people in total -- of whom 251 were the main targets -- had been illegally wiretapped for three years.

Many of those police officers arrested had been sacked by Erdogan s government in a spectacular purge of the police forces earlier this year.

The investigation is the latest episode in the feud between Erdogan and his former ally, the US-exiled Fethullah Gulen, who the premier accuses of using his influence in the police and judiciary to instigate a corruption probe implicating key government allies.

Many of those allegations stemmed from leaked phone conversations involving Erdogan and other top officials posted on social media.

Erdogan s Islamic-rooted government has already sacked thousands of police and prosecutors believed to be close to Gulen, and tightened control over the judiciary and Turkey s access to the Internet.

Erdogan has suggested that the investigation against Gulen supporters is set to widen.

Gulen, who left for the US in 1999 to escape charges of anti-secular activities by the government at the time, has denied plotting against Erdogan s administration.