report in Daily Times, mar 18, 2023The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday revealed that the mastermind behind the police lines mosque suicide bomb attack has been traced and confirmed that a faction of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was behind it. Additional IG CTD Shaukat Abbas and DIG CTD Sohail Khalid stated that the attack was planned in Afghanistan and that a second suicide bomber was also prepared to carry out the…
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Report in The Daily Star, Mar 18, 2023Two youths were arrested yesterday in connection with the attack, vandalism, and stealing of idols in two separate temples in Ulipur upazila of Kurigram. The arrested youths, resident students of Ulipur Masjidul Huda Nurani and Hafezia Madrasa in Ulipur upazila, admitted their involvement in this incident, Ulipur Police Station Officer-in-Charge (OC) Sheikh Ashrafuzzaman told The Daily Star at 10:00pm last night. “The missing idol of Goddess Kali has…
By Mohammad Farshad Daryosh in TOLOnews, Mar 17,2023 at 8:50 PMThe head of US Central Command, Michael Kurilla, said that Daesh In Afghanistan will be able to attack American or Western interests outside the country in less than six months “with little to no warning,” as reported by Star and Stripes. He made the remarks on Thursday at a Senate Armed Services Committee, saying that Daesh is rapidly developing the ability to conduct “external operations”…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 17, 2023Sheikh Abdul Rahim Muslimdost, in a recent interview with al-Mersaad Media, claimed that Pakistan is financing the ISIS group in Afghanistan. Muslimdost was a former founding member of the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISKP) who surrendered to the Taliban in March 2022, according to the media reports. In his interview, he claimed that Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba provided 50 Lakh Pakistani Rupee to the ISKP in 2015. He…
report in Dawn, March 16th, 2023KOHAT: Seven tribeswomen and children belonging to Akhorwal tribe of Darra Adamkhel tribal subdivision were injured when rockets were launched at their houses by Akakhel and Maroofkhel tribes of the neighbouring Khyber district over a decades-old land dispute on Wednesday. Azam Khan, a local official, said that the firing prompted Darra assistant commissioner Ashrafuddin to call the Khyber administration for stopping the hostilities. Later, he also called a meeting of…
report in Dawn, March 13th, 2023CHARSADDA: A policeman sustained injuries when two persons opened fire at him here on Sunday, the district police chief said. Mohammad Arif said the injured cop was his gunman, Mohammad Bilal. He said the two attackers were also injured and arrested, but one of them escaped from the hospital. DPO Arif said a case had been registered with the Counter Terrorism Department, adding a search operation was launched to arrest…
report in The News, March 13, 2023KABUL:e Islamic State group on Sunday claimed a bomb attack that killed a security guard and wounded a group of journalists and children in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif this week. Saturday´s bombing occurred at an event honouring Afghanistan´s journalists, and came two days after a suicide bomber killed the Taliban governor of Balkh province in an attack also claimed by IS. The attack against journalists was caused…
report in The News, Mar 12, 2023QUETTA: Two security guards were killed and one injured after the convoy of Mir Sardar Khan Rind, son of MPA Sardar Yar Mohammad Rind, was targeted by an IED blast near Nushman area of Bolan, district Kachhi on Saturday. According to Fahad Shah Rashidi, Assistant Commissioner, Dhadar, the vehicle of the bodyguards included in the convoy of Mir Sardar Khan Rind struck an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) near Nushman…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 9, 2023Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on Thursday that killed the Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s Balkh province, the group’s Amaq agency reported. A blast tore through the Taliban governor’s office in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Thursday, killing him and two others, officials said. Despite the Islamic Emirate rulers’ repeated claims that the Afghan conflict is concluded, the de facto government still faces significant security…
report in The Express Tribune, Mar 8, 2023QUETTA: Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attack in Balochistan that left nine policemen dead on Monday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. At least nine personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary embraced martyrdom and 13 others were injured on Monday after a suicide bomber riding an explosives-laden motorbike struck a police truck on the Sukkur-Quetta Highway in the Bolan district — about 120km from Quetta. The…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, March 7th, 2023QUETTA: Security forces have foiled a terrorist attack plan in the border town of Chaman, seizing a large quantity of arms and ammunition, including suicide jackets, officials said on Monday. They said the security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation in Chaman and recovered arms and ammunition dumped in a compound. These included 10 suicide vests, 15 anti-tank mines, readymade IEDs, 10 detonators, 64 circuits, 140 anti-personnel landmines, seven…