by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Dec 2nd, 2022ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s (PTI) Senior Vice President Fawad Chaudhary on Thursday said that terrorism incidents in the country had increased by 52 per cent since “Operation Regime Change”, a euphemism his party uses to refer to the ouster of its government through a no-trust vote in April. Expressing grief over the loss of precious lives in Wednesday’s suicide attack near Quetta, he said the operation regime change had…
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by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, Dec 2nd, 2022KHUZDAR: Two people were seriously injured in a grenade attack near a bridge in Khuzdar on Thursday. Police said unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade close to a security check-post near Khatan Bridge, and managed to flee from the scene. Soon after the explosion, police rushed to the site and shifted the injured to the district’s hospital. Security forces launched a search operation in…
by Dilawar Wazir in Dawn, Dec 2nd, 2022SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: One man was killed and a security official was injured in an attack on a girls’ school in the Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan district on Thursday. According to the district police, unknown militants opened fire from a nearby mountain during Parents’ Day celebrations at the Army Public School for Girls. The students, parents, staff and security personnel, who were present inside the school at…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 1st, 2022• ASI, woman and her two children martyred near Quetta• 24 injured as bomber smashes rickshaw into police truck• DIG says 25kg explosives used in suicide jacket QUETTA: At least four people were killed and 24 others injured on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a police truck in Baleli area, some 15 kilometres from the provincial capital, on the Quetta-Chaman national highway. A policeman was among those…
by Dr Syed Akhtar Ali Shah in The Express Tribune, Nov 29th, 2022.The author, a former Secretary to Government, currently heads a think tank ‘Good Governance Forum’.That terrorism is rising and rising in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa goes without saying. Police installations and security forces are under constant attacks, amidst extortion calls and target killings. The other day hordes of armed groups have also been observed issuing their own edicts, under- mining the writ of the government. According…