LAHORE: Unidentified armed men fired on police personnel deputed outside a church in Township creating panic in the vicinity on Tuesday. The policemen survived the attack while two passers-by suffered bullet injuries and were stated to be stable at hospital. The incident took place a few weeks after suicide blasts carried out at two churches in Youhanabad. The Tuesday’s ‘armed attack’ outside Saint Peter’s Church at Girja Chowk of Township alarmed the police authorities who…
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QUETTA: Six militants were killed in an operation in the Awaran district while eight militants surrendered to the Frontier Corps, Balochistan, in the Mawand area of Kohlu district on Tuesday. Sources said six terrorists were killed, several others were injured and a security personnel embraced martyrdom in an operation in the Mashkay area of Awaran district. The FC launched a search operation in the Mashkay area of Awaran district against the militants. “The militants opened…
BARA: Fifteen militants were killed and several others sustained injuries in air strikes by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fighter aircraft in various areas of Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Tuesday, official sources said. The sources said the fighter aircraft and helicopters bombed the sanctuaries of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) in Wacha Wona, Surkas, Seekhkot and other mountainous areas in the Kukikhel tribal territory. They said five foreigners, including Uzbeks and…