by Behram Baloch in Dawn, March 6th, 2023GWADAR: One soldier was martyred and eight others were injured in an attack on security forces in the Nalent area of Gwadar district on Sunday. According to officials, an improvised explosive device (IED) was planted to target a convoy of security forces at a bridge linking Gwadar with Turbat. The IED was detonated with remote control when two vehicles of security forces were crossing the bridge, badly damaging…
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Report in Dawn, February 27th, 2023KARACHI: An educationist, who is also a senior office-bearer of a private schools association, was gunned down in what police described as a ‘targeted attack’ in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Sunday evening. Victim Syed Khalid Raza, 55, was the deputy director of the Darul Arqam Schools, Karachi region. He was also the vice chairman of the Federation of Private Schools Pakistan. The police said that the incident took place at Gulistan-i-Jauhar Block-7…
report in Dawn, February 25th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A tribal elder was killed and his son injured when the vehicle they were travelling in came under attack here on Friday, the police said. Malik Remal Wazir along with a son was travelling in a vehicle when unidentified assailants opened fire on it, leaving the elder dead on the spot and seriously injuring his son, officials said, adding the assailants escaped. The officials said deceased’s son was…
report in The News, Feb 22, 2023QUETTA: Two personnel of the Levies were martyred in an attack on a checkpoint in the Mastung district of Balochistan on Tuesday. Levies officials said that unknown armed men opened fire on the Levies’ checkpost in the Babri area of Mastung, leaving the two personnel martyred on the spot. The attackers escaped. Soon after the incident, personnel from law enforcement agencies reached the spot and shifted the bodies to…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Feb 15, 2023QUETTA: A constable was injured in an attack on a police station late on Tuesday night. Police officials said unknown armed men hurled a grenade at the Shalkot police station located on the outskirts of Quetta, which exploded in its courtyard. “A police constable received injuries in the explosion,” a senior police officer said, adding that the injured was immediately shifted to a hospital. Police has launched a…
by Pazir Gul in Dawn, February 15th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Seven militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed when cops repulsed an attack on a police van carrying three detained militants to Bannu from North Waziristan, the Counterterrorism Department (CTD) said on Tuesday. The three detained militants were also among those killed in the Monday night clash, the CTD said. The CTD said its officials were shifting the three militants from Miramshah to Bannu…
By Imran Danish in TOLOnews, Feb 14, 2023 at 10:01 PMThe General Intelligence Department said that last night in an operation on Daesh sanctuaries in PD8 of Kabul three members of Daesh were killed and one other was arrested. Zabihullah Mujahid, spokesman of the Islamic Emirate, said that the operation started in the evening and went until 10 o’clock at night. Be said these members were involved in some of the recent attacks in Kabul.…
Report in Khaama Press, Feb 14, 2023Dr. Mahmut Cengiz, an assistant professor at George Mason University in an analytical report claims that ISIS is rapidly growing, and will take the lead in conducting terror attacks in Afghanistan. Dr. Changis believes that the Islamic Emirate has not been successful in establishing a strong government and the Daesh (ISIS) is trying to fill the vacuum. He has written on the ‘Home Security Today’ website that prior to…
report in The Nation, Feb 13,2023Police repulsed an armed attack of the terrorists on a police station in Lakki Marwat district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Sunday night. According to details, terrorists attacked the Bakhmal Police Station in Lakki Marwat and opened fire at the police personnel. Police returned the fire and after exchange of fire, the terrorist escape from the scene. No casualty was reported in the incident. Sources said that tribal elders…
Report in Daily Times, Feb 12, 2023At least three people have been killed and 22 others injured in a suicide attack in northwestern Pakistan, officials told RFE/RL. The attack on February 11 was carried out in the Mirali subdivision of the North Waziristan tribal district on security forces that were escorting a local petroleum company convoy, district officials said. Officials told Radio Mashaal that the suicide bomber drove his vehicle into the convoy at the…
by Dr Moonis Ahmar in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2023.The writer is former Dean Faculty of Social Science, University of KarachiTerrorism is a double-edged sword, which targets not only innocent people but also destabilises a society. Although the recent suicide attack at a mosque in Peshawar’s red zone was not of the same scale as the terrorist attack at Army Public School (APS) in 2014, it was still a horrific incident. Countless lives could…