{"id":1158344,"date":"2026-02-06T21:26:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.app.com.pk\/?p=1158344"},"modified":"2026-02-06T21:26:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T16:26:55","slug":"278-professional-beggars-arrested-in-22-day-drive-in-rawalpindi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/2026\/02\/06\/278-professional-beggars-arrested-in-22-day-drive-in-rawalpindi\/","title":{"rendered":"278 professional beggars arrested in 22-day drive in Rawalpindi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">RAWALPINDI, Feb 06 (APP): The Rawalpindi Police arrested 278 professional beggars so far during the ongoing crackdown launched across the city on the directions of City Police Officer (CPO) Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani, a police spokesman said on Friday.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the spokesman, those taken into custody in the drive started some 22 days ago included 129 men, 135 women and 14 transgender persons.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said special squads were in the field to act against professional beggars, with having strict monitoring on the city\u2019s busy roads and major arteries.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The spokesman said professional beggars often caused traffic disruptions on crowded thoroughfares and inconvenience to citizens, adding that many were also found involved in theft, drug peddling and other crimes.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">The crackdown against professional beggars would continue across the city in line with the Punjab chief minister\u2019s vision, he added.<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAWALPINDI, Feb 06 (APP): The Rawalpindi Police arrested 278 professional beggars so far during the ongoing crackdown launched across the city on the directions of City Police Officer (CPO) Syed Khalid Mahmood Hamdani, a police spokesman said on Friday. According to the spokesman, those taken into custody in the drive started some 22 days ago&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1117619,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","_speechable_audio":"","_speechable_word_timings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[1308,162,675],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-1158344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-domestic","tag-crackdown","tag-rawalpindi-news","tag-rawalpindi-police","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1158344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1158344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1117619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1158344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1158344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1158344"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=1158344"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.app.com.pk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=1158344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}