By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, December 28, 2023PESHAWAR: Two policemen were wounded in yet another attack on a police post in Dera Ismail Khan late Wednesday night. Officials said the alert cops bravely fought back and repulsed the attack. Reports said the attackers opened fire with sniper guns and automatic rifles on a post in Maddi area. Police and security personnel retaliated and the firing continued for some time. Reports said two policemen…
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Report in The News, December 27, 2023PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department has made further progress in investigation into the Dera Ismail Khan terror attack, it has been learnt. The CTD report said the main attacker Sifatullah had crossed the Torkham border into Afghanistan on March 3 and there was no record as to when he returned. His location in different parts of Pakistan a few days before the attack was also collected, it added. The CTD…
Report in Dawn, Dec 27th, 2023KARACHI: The owner of a general store, said to be associated with the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), was shot dead in what police described as a targeted attack in Korangi on Tuesday. Korangi SHO Amin Solangi said that two assailants riding on a motorbike arrived at a shop in Zia Colony, one of them got off the two-wheeler and opened straight fire on Muhammad Saleem, 50. He suffered…
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in The Gurdian, De 24, 2023 at 06.00 GMTAccusations are growing that the former Sri Lankan government, led by strongman president Gotabaya Rajapaksa, blocked an investigation into the country’s worst terrorist attack amid claims that they had helped orchestrate the blasts in order to return to power. In the attacks on Easter Sunday in 2019, six suicide bombers targeted churches and luxury hotels across the country, killing 269 people, including eight British…
report in Dawn, December 21st, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police repulsed a militant attack on Wanda Banochi checkpost near the Darra Pezu town of Lakki Marwat district here on Wednesday evening. A police official said that the cops deployed at the post noticed movement of around a dozen militants in the night vision cameras and opened fire at them. “The cops were alert and their prompt action stopped militants from launching a full-scale attack,” he maintained.…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, Dec 18, 2023GWADAR: A labourer was killed and two others were injured when some armed men attacked them in Turbat area of Kech district on Sunday. According to police, some unidentified armed men on motorcycles opened fire on the workers carrying out construction work. As a result of the firing, three labourers were seriously wounded. After receiving information, law enforcement personnel rushed to the area and shifted the injured to…
Report in Dawn, December 14th, 2023ISLAMABAD: A day after Pakistan issued a demarche to Kabul following a deadly gun and bomb attack targeting a military compound in Dera Ismail Khan, the interim Afghanistan government promised to probe the terror attack, but also asked Islamabad to refrain from blaming Kabul for every problem. Taliban chief spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said Kabul would investigate the attack. “We are shocked at the attack in Pakistan. We will look into…
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.…
Edit in The News,December 05, 2023Unidentified attackers opened fire on a passenger bus on Karakoram Highway in Gilgit-Baltistan’s (GB) Chilas city this past Saturday, leaving at least nine dead and 25 injured. Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were also martyred in the attack. On Sunday, the police arrested six suspects following the gun attack on the Islamabad-bound bus in Chilas, which ploughed into a goods truck due to the driver’s acceleration, prompted by the…
Editorial in Dawn, December 5th, 2023PERHAPS even more challenging than countering terrorism in urban areas is the threat posed by militants in remote regions of Pakistan. This is especially true in the rugged terrain of Gilgit-Baltistan and adjacent regions of KP. Here, in the shadow of towering peaks, tracing the perpetrators is arguably more difficult than it is in the cities. However, terrorists cannot be given a free hand to stomp through the mountains, killing…