by Jamil Nagri in Dawn, December 3rd, 2023GILGIT: At least nine people lost their lives and 21 passengers received injuries after an Islamabad-bound bus came under fire near Chilas in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan on Saturday evening. Officials said unknown gunmen targeted the bus, operated by a local private company, from nearby hills which caused the vehicle to swerve into a goods truck, causing a head-on collision which also killed the truck driver. Police said…
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report in Dawn, Nov 26th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police on Saturday claimed to have repulsed a militant attack on a checkpost in Bakhmal Ahmadzai area of the Lakki Marwat district. An official said that on Friday night, cops noticed movement of militants around the police post in the modern thermal cameras, and fired at them. “The assailants also hit the police post with light and heavy weapons,” claimed the official. He said that after hearing…
By Mushtaq Paracha in The News, Nov 24, 2023NOWSHERA: A cop was martyred in an armed attack in the Akora Khattak town of the Nowshera district here on Thursday, police said. District Police Officer (DPO) Nasir Mehmood confirmed the incident to the media and said it happened near the mausoleum of the nationalist poet , Ajmal Khattak, on the Muhajir Bazaar Road. Giving the details, he said the Ababeel Squad of the police was busy…
by Muhammad Irfan Mughal in Dawn, Nov 12th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three police personnel, including a station house officer (SHO), were martyred and five others including a deputy superintendent of police, sustained injuries in a militant attack on police in Kari Shah Noor area of district Tank on Saturday. Police spokesperson informed that DSP Chan Shah was leading a police party to arrest kidnappers of a woman in Shah Noor village when unidentified assailants opened…
By Fidel Rahmati in The Khaama Press Online, November 8, 2023In response to the recent attack on a civilian bus in western Kabul, the United Nations Special Rapporteur has called for an urgent and thorough investigation to identify the culprits behind the explosion. On Wednesday, Richard Bent, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights, expressed his concerns, saying, “This is the third attack on the Hazaras in Afghanistan in less than a month.” He…
report in The News, Nov 7, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: In yet another terror attack, two policemen were martyred while three others sustained injuries in Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday morning. The terrorist attack took place at an oil and gas company in the Drazanda tehsil of DI Khan, said the deputy superintendent of police (DSP). The DSP said that the injured cops and the bodies of the other two have been…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, November 5th, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) on Saturday expressed concern over terrorist attacks on security forces days after the announcement of the general election date. The party issued the statement hours after nine terrorists were killed as security forces foiled a terrorist attack on the Mianwali Training Air Base of Pakistan Air Force. A day ago, 17 soldiers and five civilians were martyred in militant attacks in Gwadar, Dera…
report in The News, November 04, 2023RAWALPINDI: A terror attack on the Mianwali Training Air Base of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) has been thwarted and all the personnel and assets are safe, the military’s media wing said in a statement on Saturday. “On 04 November, 2023, in the early hours of the day, Mianwali Training Air Base of Pakistan Air Force came under a failed terrorist attack which, Alhumdolliah, due to the swift and…
By Behram Baloch | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 1st, 2023GWADAR / QUETTA: Four labourers and a policeman lost their lives in an armed attack at a police station near Turbat in Kech district on Tuesday, according to officials. Makran Division Commissioner Saeed Ahmed Umrani told Dawn that around 17 labourers were staying in the police station due to security reasons when the attack took place, early in the morning. It was the second attack…
report in Dawn, October 30th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Militants equipped with modern weapons attacked Hathala police station in Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan district on Sunday night. However, police repulsed the attack. Around 50 militants equipped with sophisticated weapons, hand grenades and rocket launchers attacked the police station, said officials. They said that police repulsed the attack and militants managed to escape after heavy exchange of heavy fire with the law-enforcers. “No casualties are…
report in Dawn, October 30th, 2023BAJAUR: A prayer leader was killed in what police said a targeted attack in Mamond tehsil here on Sunday. Dilawar Khan, SHO Mamond police station, told reporters that unknown assailants fired at Qari Mohammad Qasim, 42, killing him on the spot. He said the locals chased the attackers, but they managed to escape. He said Qasim was a prayer leader at a mosque in his native Laghari area. No one…