KARACHI – The Rangers manhandled a staff member of The Nation during snap-checking in Allah Wali Chowrangi area at Tariq Road intersection on Sunday. According to details, Abdullah Zafar, a staff reporter of The Nation was on his way to home from office located at MA Jinnah Road when traffic police personnel intercepted him at Nursery Road and asked him to show the documents of his motorbike. Abdullah gave documents to the police officer and…
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by Umar Cheema in the News, April 09, 2015 ISLAMABAD:-The first generation of Pakistani youth that joined militancy after Russia’s invasion of Afghanistan has stronger desire of returning to normalcy as compared with the second generation switched after 9/11, according to a new book. However, the book offers an optimistic conclusion that many banned groups have the potential of reintegration into society and calls upon the government to initiate a comprehensive plan for their rehabilitation.…
by Javed Aziz Khan in The News, March 30, 2015 PESHAWAR: Unidentified attackers shot dead a senior army officer in Hayatabad when he came out of a mosque after offering the Zuhr prayer, officials said on Sunday.Lt Col Tahir Azeem, hailing from the Kaga Wala village on the outskirts of Peshawar, had come from Rawalpindi to attend the wedding of his sister in Hayatabad. “As he came out of the mosque in Hayatabad Phase-III after…
ISLAMABAD: Two Czech women who were kidnapped while travelling through Balochistan two years ago have been freed thanks to the efforts of a Turkish organisation, Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). Following their release, Antonie Chrastecka and Hana Humpalova were first taken to the Turkish province of Van and then flown to the Czech Republic. They have already reunited with their families, the country’s prime minister announced on Saturday. “I am really glad to confirm that Hana…
QUETTA: Five members of Balochistan Republican Army (BRA) were killed while six others were injured during a search operation in Mastung district on Sunday. The suspects were accused of attacking eight oil tankers and abducting the drivers on March 23. The oil tankers were on the way to Saindak Copper and Gold Project in Balochistan from Karachi when they were attacked. Carried out on a tip-off, the search was conducted in the Kirdgap area and…
PESHAWAR: An unknown assailant shot dead a traffic police official while he was on duty near Marchako Mandi area in Peshawar city on Thursday. An official of Faqirabad police station said that ASI Mohammad Fayaz was on a routine duty when an unidentified armed man opened fire on him with a pistol. He breathed his last on way to the Lady Reading Hospital. The official said that the ASI had no enmity and seemed to…
QUETTA: At least five police personnel, including two officers, were gunned down by suspected militants in Makhtar area of Loralai district, some 350km northeast of here, on Thursday night. Sources said Rara-Sharam’s Station House Officer Tahir Shah was going to Punjab in a passenger coach when armed men killed him after ordering him out of the vehicle. Personnel of Frontier Corps, along with a heavy contingent of police, launched an operation to arrest the assailants.…
MUNAWER AZEEM in Dawn, March 26th, 2015 ISLAMABAD: Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz may not have submitted a written apology to Islamabad police, as suggested by Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, but he has submitted a ‘surety letter’ that he was bound to submit nearly 12 years ago, when his name was first included in a watch list under the fourth schedule of the Anti-Terrorism Act (ATA). Sources in the police department and the…
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…
KARACHI: At least two people were killed and five others injured when a bomb attached to a parked motorcycle went off outside a mosque of the Bohra community in Aram Bagh area on Friday. The explosion took place when people were coming out of Saleh mosque, near Haqqani Chowk, after offering Friday prayer at about 1.55pm. Two people were killed and five injured, said Karachi-South DIG Barrister Abdul Khalique Shaikh. The powerful blast was heard…
DAWN.COM KARACHI: A suicide blast targeting a Rangers mobile near Qalandria Chowk in North Nazimabad killed two paramilitary officials and injured another on Friday evening, while they were on regular patrolling duty. According to initial reports by DawnNews, three Rangers personnel were injured in the blast. But two officials succumbed to their injuries on the way to the hospital. The deceased officials have been identified as Qasim and Yaar Mohammad. SP Gulberg confirmed that a…