by Asif Chaudhry in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023LAHORE: In a gun battle that lasted all night, police thwarted an ambush by more than a dozen militants on a police post in Mianwali killing two of the attackers, officials said. The ambush comes on the heels of back-to-back terrorist attacks in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that claimed scores of lives since Friday. A police constable embraced martyrdom during the latest attack initiated by the militants belonging…
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by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023• Latest victim targeted in Sohrab Goth was JUI-F supporter• CTD finds no connection in murders of three religious scholarsKARACHI: The targeted killings of three religious scholars in the metropolis in a short span of one month put a question mark over the performance of police, Rangers and many other intelligence agencies, as they appear to have made no headway in the investigations despite their initial findings leading…
by Fazal Khaliq in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023SWAT: A group of Charbagh residents and some prayer leaders on Sunday intervened to halt a women cricket match at Charbagh Cricket Stadium. They said girls participating in cricket was immodest and considered inappropriate in the locality. Ayesha Ayaz, a 12-year-old budding athlete, had taken the initiative to arrange the match among girls hailing from Babuzai and Kabal tehsils. However, before the commencement of game, several prayer leaders…
by Amin Ahmed in Dawn, October 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is among the 40 countries across the world where over 220 individuals and 25 organisations faced threats and retaliation from the state and non-state actors for cooperating with the United Nations on human rights, reveals a new report of the UN Secretary-General. The report titled, ‘Cooperation with the United Nations, its representatives and mechanisms in the field of human rights’ covering the period from May 1,…
report in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023SWABI: A member of Awami National Party (ANP) provincial council was shot dead by two unidentified motorcyclists here on Saturday. Javed Khan, 55, was the eldest son of Sher Hassan, a retired police officer and a member of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Caravan. DSP Jawad Khan said that preliminary investigation made clear that the ANP leader was shot at from a very close range by the assailants. They moved close…
By Ahmed Faraz in The News,October 01, 2023At least two terrorists were killed and a policeman was martyred after a group of militants attacked a patrolling post in the Kundal area of Punjab’s Mianwali district, Inspector General of Police (IGP) Dr Usman Anwar said Sunday. The Punjab police chief said the gun battle between the law enforcers and the militants erupted after 10 to 12 terrorists attacked a police check post in the wee hours…
report in Dawn, October 1st, 2023PESHAWAR: A Pakistan Army soldier embraced martyrdom in Parachinar while an alleged militant commander was gunned down in Mardan in two separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the small hours of Friday. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said an encounter took place between security forces and alleged militants in Parachinar, Kurram, in which Lance Naik Ghairat Khan, 33, embraced martyrdom. In a separate incident, an alleged militant…
Report in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023PESHAWAR: The fingerprints of a suicide bomber, who left five people dead when he blew himself up at a mosque in Hangu on Friday, do not match any available in the Nadra database, suggesting that he may be an unknown man or a foreigner. According to police, “initial probe suggests that the suicide attack on the police station was carried out by Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K).” Five lives were lost…
Report in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023KARACHI: A regional security meeting on Afghanistan, hosted by Russia with participation from China and other regional countries, has called upon the interim Afghan government to take effective measures to ‘dismantle’ all sorts of terrorist groups based in the country and to ensure that their territory no longer serves as ‘terrorism hotspot’. The call for enhanced security measures arose during the fifth Moscow Format Consultations on Afghanistan, which gathered high-ranking…
By Wajid Ali Syed in The News, Oct 01, 2023WASHINGTON: A group of Pakistan’s top private business executives concluded their two-day visit to the US during which they met with American trade and treasury officials as well as high-ups of various financial institutions. The eight-member delegation included Lucky Group’s CEO Mohammad Ali Tabba, TPL’s CEO Ali Jameel, HBL Chairman Sultan Ali Allana and HBL’s CEO Muhammad Aurangzeb, Engro Corp’s Samad Dawood, Atlas Honda’s CEO Saquib…