report in The Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2023At least three security personnel were martyred and 12 were injured in a suicide attack in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). According to police officials, terrorists attacked security forces billeted at the Daraban School in DI Khan. A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) was rammed in to the building at around 3am, causing it to collapse. Following the car bombing, terrorists entered the school premises.…
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report in Dawn, December 12th, 2023AROUND 200 Afghan special forces personnel, stranded in Pakistan while awaiting relocation to the UK, are facing deportation back to the country they escaped from in 2021, according to BBC. The report says the personnel, trained and funded by the UK, fled to Pakistan after the Afghan Taliban took over Kabul. The fears for the Afghan commandos come as it was revealed the government also rejected calls from senior British…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday called for a thorough investigation into the release of terrorists from prisons during the PTI rule, regretting that such a decision was taken without taking the parliament and the nation into loop. Sitting beside caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti during a press conference, the PPP chairman expressed these views while talking to reporters after visiting ‘The Wall of…
by Kashif Abbasi in Dawn, Dec 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: PPP leader Asif Zardari on Monday launched a scathing attack on Imran Khan, saying the former premier supports Afghans because he had allegedly got them included in the voter lists. The former president also hinted at the possibility of a “little delay” in the elections, but said his party had no problem with it. Afghan citizens were registered as voters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the past to…
report in The News, December 12, 2023ISLAMABAD: With Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PMLN) supremo Nawaz Sharif apparently all set to take a fourth shot at power during the upcoming elections, “political scientist” Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has hinted at joining the race for the coveted slot of prime minister. In an interiew with a private news channel on Monday, the “king of reconciliation” said: “I can be a candidate for prime ministership…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2023Former president and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari has highlighted that it will make no difference if the general elections are delayed by eight to 10 days, saying that factors such as adverse weather conditions or security situation in erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) may impact the schedule of polls. In an interview with a private news channel, Zardari emphasised that the elections were…
by Syed Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2023QUETTA: A division bench of the Balochistan High Court (BHC) has ordered immediate suspension of four Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel in connection with the alleged extra-judicial killing of Balach Baloch – a 24-year-old Baloch man – in Makran belt. The division bench comprising BHC Chief Justice Naeem Akhtar Afghan and Justice Nazeer Ahmed Langove passed the order on a constitutional petition filed by the…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 12th, 2023QUETTA: The local administration deployed a heavy contingent of police and other security forces, sealing the red zone area of the provincial capital on Monday evening before the arrival of the long march participants protesting against the killing of Balaach Mola Bakhsh in the CTD encounter in Turbat. Hundreds of people, including family members of Mr Balaach and women, reached Mastung town on Monday. The local administration placed…
Report in The Nation, Dec11, 2023KOHAT – Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari while addressing workers’ convention here on Saturday said that his party is contesting the general elections to continue the accomplishments achieved by Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto and President Zardari. “The 1973 Constitution, the 18the Amendment and NFC Award are all gifts given to the people by the PPP and those wishing to repeal them would have…
report in The Nation, Dec 11, 2023QUETTA – The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Murad Jamot was martyred and two others injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Sunday. Police said a magnetic bomb was exploded on Jamot’s vehicle when he was going to office near the Sultan Ibrahim Road in Khuzdar area. According to police sources, the nature of the explosion was a magnetic bomb and…
report in Dawn, December 11th, 2023HYDERABAD: Leaders of Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) on Sunday hinted at launching “court arrest” movement in Sindh if murderers of slain journalist, Jan Mohammad Mahar were not brought to justice. They criticised the Sindh government for its failure in laying hands on the culprits on the ground that they were hiding in the katcha area which remained inaccessible for the law enforcers. They were speaking at a Sindh…