Three commanders among eight TTP terrorists killed in NW operationsreport in The Express Tribune, Mar 7, 2021Security forces conducted two intelligence-based operations (IBOs) on Saturday, killing at least eight terrorists including three commanders of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s North Waziristan tribal district, military said. “These terrorists remained involved in terrorist activities against security forces, law enforcement agencies and locals of the area since 2009 including IED attacks, firing, target killing, kidnapping for ransom…
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The Taliban has reshuffled their key posts and ranks by appointing designated governors, deputy governors and heads of military commissions for 19 provinces, calling it a normal practice within their ranks, but the government and analysts say the move is a sign of preparations for the upcoming fighting season and that it shows the group’s “unwillingness” for peace efforts. The Taliban has appointed designated governors for 11 provinces, including Khost, Nangarhar, Paktia, Paktika, Kabul, Samangan,…
The Taliban has increased its presence in areas where the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces (ANDSF) left military installations and checkpoints. Referring to a decision to either relocate or withdraw personnel from military installations in some regions of the country, the Afghan Ministry of Defense (MoD) said that some of these checkpoints and bases were not positioned in optimal areas. The Ministry of Interior (MoI) said that it has reduced the number of police…
Unidentified assailants shot dead an elderly Jamaat-i-Islami activist in Salarzai teshil of the Bajaur tribal district, police and residents said on Tuesday. They said the incident occurred in Gaang locality on Monday evening. They said Sahibzada Jan Badshah was returning home after offering evening prayers in a mosque when he was targeted. They said the victim, 60, also a cousin of JI former MNA Sahibzada Haroon Rasheed, was seriously wounded. The villagers and family members…
A court in Pakistan has indefinitely delayed an appeal hearing for a Christian couple who have been on death row since 2014 after being convicted of blasphemy. Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel, imprisoned since 2013, were sentenced to death under Pakistan’s notoriously draconian blasphemy laws for allegedly sending “blasphemous texts” that insulted the prophet Muhammad to a cleric. The texts were sent via a sim card that was registered in Kausar’s name. However, the couple…
report on TOLO news, Feb 25, 2021 at 11:49 AM At least six public uprising force members were killed and four more were wounded in a car bomb attack on a security outpost in the western province of Herat on Wednesday night, source confirmed. The attack took place in Qudus Abad village in Kohsan district of the province on Wednesday night when a car bomb happened close to a security outpost followed by clashes between…
Edit in The News : Words leave you speechless when you think about the brazen murders of four women vocational trainers in North Waziristan on February 22. It was a daylight attack and the attackers managed to escape with ease despite the presence of security personnel across this tribal district that has been merged with the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. According to reports, five women in a vehicle were driving through Eppi village near Mirali, when…
A senior member of the Pakistani parliament, Salahuddin Ayubi, married a 14-year-old girl from Balochistan, reports said on February 23. The case has sparked a row, since marriage with a minor girl aged below 16 is in violation of domestic law. Ayubi, a leader of the conservative Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F), represents the Kila Abdullah constituency of Balochistan in the Pakistan National Assembly. His nikah – marriage under Islamic law – was solemnised in Chitral town…
Hundreds of clerics from in Afghanistan’s Herat province on Tuesday appealed to the Afghan government and the Taliban to end the violence and announce a ceasefire in the country. The clerics labeled the ongoing conflict in Afghanistan as ‘Muslim killing’ and said that the war has no legitimacy. The clerics also condemned the controversial remarks of a cleric named Mujiburrahman Ansari against the Afghan National Security and Defense Forces and said that Ansari’s statement had…
Clerics and representatives of different political organisations and religious schools of thought have called on the government to fully implement the National Action Plan (NAP) and ensure legislation on the draft of ‘Paigham-e-Pakistan’. While addressing Ulema-Mashaykh Convention, which held in Faisalabad here on Sunday under the aegis of Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC), clerics and representatives of different religious schools of thought stated that government had represented emotions of Muslim Ummah on the issue of Namoos-e-Risalat…
Terrorist’s escape: Editorial in Dawn, Feb 26, 2021
THE military’s revelation this week about the escape of former TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan has given rise to more questions about an incident that was already steeped in mystery. It has now been confirmed by the army that Ehsan escaped from its custody a year ago — a development that had been largely met with conspicuous silence, until now, from both the government and security establishment. The military’s official disclosure of action against those responsible…