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Police foil attack on security post

Report in Dawn, Feb 8th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Police repulsed an attack on a security checkpoint in Hathala Tuesday late night. Police officials said the armed terrorists attacked the Hathala post of Kulachi police station and exchanged fire with security forces for half an hour. A heavy contingent of police reached the spot and returned fire, forcing the attackers to flee, they added. They said police launched a search operation in the area. This was…

Seven injured in two Quetta attacks

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, February 6th, 2023QUETTA: Seven people were injured in two terrorist attacks, one of them said to be a suicide bombing, on Sunday. The first incident took place near the Police Lines on Gulistan Road and the other on Mano Jan Road. Five people, including an office-bearer of the Civil Secretariat Staff Association, suffered injuries in the first attack. According to police officials, the blast occurred near a bridge. There was…

Attacks on two police posts repulsed

report in The News, Feb 05, 2023PPESHAWAR: Two police outposts in remote areas of the province came under attack on Sunday night but both the attacks were repulsed. The Tank police and locals on late Sunday night repulsed a major attack on Pir Tangi police post in Jandola police station. An official said dozens of militants armed with automatic weapons attacked the Pir Tangi Police post in Jandola, Tank district. “The cops, however, were alert…

January ‘deadliest’ month since July 2018, says report

by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, February 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan reeled from the terror wave, January 2023 remained one of the deadliest months since July 2018, as 134 people lost their lives — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 militant attacks across the country. According to statistics released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based think-tank, the pattern of terrorist attacks continued…

Savage bombing of a mosque

EDITORIAL in Business Recorder, February 1st, 2023Ever since November 1995 when al-Qaeda terrorists carried out a deadly attack on Egyptian embassy in Islamabad Pakistan has been a playing field of terrorists of various genres, but with alternating variation of timeframe. So, after a relative calm of a couple of years Pakistan appears to have fallen prey to terrorists of local brand; they’re known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). What does this entity really want? There is…

TTP attack on Mianwali police station ‘repulsed’

by Asif Chaudhry in Dawn, February 1st, 2023LAHORE: A day after a deadly suicide bombing in Peshawar claimed over 100 lives, a police station in Mianwali came under a gun attack by a group of heavily armed militants be­longing to banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis­tan (TTP) on Tuesday night. However, police clai­med late at night the attack had been repulsed. The attack is significant in that terrorists — who had so far targeted police stations and check…

Police party escapes IED blast near Peshawar

by Umer Farooq in Dawn, January 23th, 2023PESHAWAR: A police patrolling party narrowly escaped an IED (improvised explosive device) attack in the Gula Khan Zangal area, southwest of the provincial capital bordering Khyber district, on Sunday. The bomb, weighing around one kilogram, was planted on a roadside within the jurisdiction of Badhber Police Station and it went off seconds after the police van passed through the site, police said, adding the police party remained unhurt.…

Bomb blast derails train in Bolan;15 injured

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Jan 21, 2023QUETTA: Four women among 15 people suffered injuries when a bomb blast derailed a Peshawar-bound train in Bolan district on Friday in an attack claimed by the banned Baloch Liberation Army. Officials said the explosi­­on that derailed eight coa­c­hes of Jaffar Express along with its locomotive and damaged a portion of the main railway track linking Quetta with the rest of the country was carried out by a…

UN says Sri Lanka must ensure compensation for victims of 2019 terrorist attacks

REPORT IN Daily FT, , 20 January 2023The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Wednesday said Sri Lanka must fully compensate victims of the Easter Sunday 2019 terrorist attacks following a recent decision by the country’s top court. Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the former President and three other senior officials to compensate the families of the victims because they had failed to prevent the tragedy. Over 270 people were…

Senior lawyer Afridi shot dead in PHC’s bar room

by Umer Farooq in Dawn, Jan 17th, 2023PESHAWAR: One of the country’s senior most lawyers, Abdul Latif Afridi, was shot dead in a broad daylight attack inside the bar room of the Peshawar High Court (PHC) on Monday, allegedly over a family feud. Mr Afridi, 80, was sitting in the bar room with other lawyers when the att­acker opened fire, SSP Ope­r­ations Kashif Abbasi said. Mr Afridi, a former president of the Supreme Court Bar…

Peshawar Attack: edit in The Nation, Jan 16, 2023

Once again, the TTP has claimed an attack that illustrates how the group has become more audacious as it targeted the Sarband police station at the outskirts of Peshawar. A senior police officer along with two two constables embraced martyrdom in a midnight militant attack, which officials believe is the first of its kind where modern gadgets were used to target police. While the five attackers managed to flee in the dark—as has been witnessed…