By Abdul Sami Paracha in Dawn, May 24th, 2023KOHAT: Six security officials were martyred after more than a dozen militants stormed an oil and gas exploration site, police and the energy firm said on Tuesday. The attack took place at facilities run by MOL Pakistan Oil and Gas Company, a unit of Hungary’s MOL, in the Manji Khel area of Hangu district near the Afghan border. Police said the militants targeted two wells, known as…
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Report in Dawn, May 2nd, 2023QUETTA: At least two security personnel sustained injuries in a grenade attack on an FC checkpoint near Nushki on the Quetta-Taftan highway on Monday, officials said. In the early hours of morning, the officials said, some motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade at the FC checkpoint but managed to speed away when countered by gunfire. Two security personnel who were injured in the attack were rushed to hospital, while security forces…
Report in Dawn, May 1st, 2023PESHAWAR: A constable of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police’s elite force was martyred when he came under attack while going home in Tarnab area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday evening, officials said. The city police station officials said that Mohammad Ibrar Khan, a resident of Meher Gul village of Tarnab, was deployed at the office of an intelligence agency. They said that he came under attack when…
Report in Dawn, May 1st, 2023SUKKUR: Gangsters believed to be members of the notorious Mitho Shah gang abducted two policemen along with their official weapons after storming the Khalid Nawaz Jakhrani check-post in the Jagir area within the jurisdiction of the Mauladad police station in Jacobabad district late on Saturday night. Jacobabad SSP Dr Sumair Noor Channa denied reports of the abduction but later a video uploaded on social media by Mitho Shah confirmed the…
By Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, April 28th, 2023KHUZDAR: A senior police official of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Khuzdar was martyred in a bomb attack on Thursday. According to the police, a roadside bomb went off when Inspector Sharbat Khan’s vehicle reached Khuzdar Medical College on the Quetta-Karachi Highway while he was on his way to the police station. Mr Khan died on the spot as the explosion left his vehicle completely…
Report in Dawn, April 15th, 2023HYDERABAD: Unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants gunned down son of a former superintendent of police in Qasimabad phase-I late on Thursday night. Arsalan alias Naveed Jamali, son of Ahmed Khan Jamali, was sitting outside a friend’s house along with two other friends when four assailants on two motorcycles shot at him six to seven times after confirming his identity, leaving him dead. He was taken to Liaquat University Hospital’s city branch where…
by Ashutosh Sarkar in The Daily Star, Apr 14, 2023Both the victims and convicts of Ramna Batamul bomb blasts have been deprived of final justice due to legal tangles, even 22 years after the gruesome incident. Different issues, including repeated adjournments and reconstitution of High Court benches, have unusually delayed disposal of the case filed for killing of 10 people in the blasts. Besides, it is still uncertain when the appeals filed by the convicts…
Report in The News, April 12, 2023QUETTA: Four policemen were martyred during an intelligence-based operation in Quetta on Tuesday. The attack took place in the Kuchlak area near Quetta during a search operation launched following Monday’s bombing, Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo said. “The officers who were martyred during the encounter with the terrorists set an example of courage and bravery,” he said in a statement. Zohaib Moshin, a senior superintendent of police (operations), said…
By Essa Khankhel in The News, April 11, 2023MINGORA: A child sustained injuries in a hand-grenade attack on the house of a member of dispute resolution council (DRC) in the Nokhara area in the Matta Tehsil of the Swat district, police said on Monday. They said that unidentified miscreants lobbed a hand-grenade into the house of Ihsanullah, a member of DRC in Nokhara area Sunday night. They said a child identified as Kamal sustained injuries…
By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, April 10th, 2023QUETTA: Two cops were martyred and one was injured in an attack by unknown assailants in the Killi Spine area of Kuchlak district on Sunday evening, police said. The policemen, who belonged to the Eagle Squad, were patrolling on a motorcycle when the assailants opened indiscriminate fire, leaving three injured. One of the assailants was killed while the other managed to escape as cops returned fire. The injured…