Crackdown on thugs, POs continues.

LAHORE -- The police continued crackdown on thugs, proclaimed officers and land grabbers on the second consecutive day on Thursday to eliminate networks of the city's top 'underworld dons'.

According to the official statistics, the teams arrested total 260 hardcore criminals including proclaimed and targeted offenders as well as absconders within two days besides registering 138 FIRs against them.

Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Ghulam Mehmood Dogar had circulated the updated list of thugs, goons and proclaimed offenders to all the divisional SPs with a direction to initiate an operation against them to bring down crime rate in the city.

He had appointed Lahore Investigation SSP Abdul Ghaffar Qaisrani as focal person to supervise the crackdown.

Mr Qaisrani said the police further made arrests on the second consecutive day to purge the city of 'underworld dons' and POs.

He said...