by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Daily Morning, Sept 6, 2023While Opposition and Samagi Jana Balawegaya Leader Sajith Premadasa has called for an immediate international investigation into the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 21 April 2019, the Government has hinted at such an investigation into the same. The United Kingdom’s Channel Four News yesterday (5) aired a programme titled Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches which made shocking revelations including the alleged involvement and complicity of…
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by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Sept 3rd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The number of militant attacks in August was the highest tally for monthly strikes in almost nine years, according to data released by a think tank on Saturday. There were 99 attacks across the country, the highest number in a single month since November 2014, according to data compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS). The numbers released by the Islamabad-based think tank…
report in Prothom Alo, Sept 2, 2023Nearly 120 people, including police, were injured as clashes broke out between opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) leaders and activists with the police and ruling Awami League men in Magura, Netrokona, Gaibandha and Bhola districts on Friday. The clashes took place as the opposition party was organising its 45th founding anniversary programme on the day. In Magura, a clash broke out between the police and BNP leaders and activists…
by Ibrahim Shinwari | Pazir Gul in Dawn, September 2nd, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN/KHYBER: Three military personnel, including an officer, were martyred in separate attacks in North Waziristan and Khyber districts, according to the military’s media wing. A statement by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Friday that two security personnel, including a major, were martyred during an intelligence-based operation in Miramshah area of North Waziristan. The operation was being carried out on the basis of…
by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, August 26th, 2023KHUZDAR: Four people were killed in two separate attacks in Khuzdar and Kalat on Friday. A man and his two wives were gunned down by armed men who barged into a house in the Killi Rodini area of Kalat, according to the police. The attackers opened indiscriminate fire resulting in the killings of Muhammad Hayat and his two wives on the spot. One person was injured in…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Aug 26, 2023Three hundred and eighty three Lankans had been killed up to 18 August this year in 373 violent attacks, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said yesterday.The comparative figures for 2021 and 2022 were 525 to 550 brutal killings, he said. “People often focus on incidents related to the underworld, but incidents that occurred as a result of family disputes, land disputes, sudden bouts of anger and other…
Report in Dawn, August 25th, 2023PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have formed special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams to fight militancy amid growing attacks. The initiative comes as the police department analysed the security situation and found out that two-thirds of the nationwide militant attacks took place in KP, according to a senior official. “Our [police] analysis reveals that around 70 per cent of militant attacks have been carried out against us. A total of…
AFP in The News, August 20, 2023LAHORE: A Muslim cleric is among a dozen people being investigated for using mosque loudspeakers to order protests against alleged blasphemy by Christians which erupted into mob violence in Jaranwala earlier this week, a senior police official said. More than 80 Christian homes and 19 churches were vandalised when hundreds rampaged through a Christian neighbourhood in Jaranwala in Punjab province on Wednesday. Reports that a Quran had been desecrated…
by Areesha Rehan | Hawwa Fazal | Wara Irfan in Dawn online, August 18, 2023On Wednesday, August 16, a mob stormed and vandalised five churches, several homes of Christian families and even a cemetery in Faisalabad’s Jaranwala district. The violence erupted after some locals alleged that several desecrated pages of the Holy Quran had been found near a house at Cinema Chowk in Jaranwala, where two Christian brothers resided. Soon after, members of the Tehreek-i-Labbaik…
By Arshad Yousafzai in The News, August 19, 2023Members of the Christian community of Pakistan on Friday expressed disappointment at the fact that their community was never served justice in numerous mob attacks against them. They were speaking at a protest held in front of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) against the recent attacks on churches and houses of the Christian community in Faisalabad and Jaranwala. It was said that owing to flaws in the…
Report in Dawn, August 18th, 2023• Army chief vows ‘no leniency’, FO spox decries violence• Amnesty urges Pakistan to prevent misuse of blasphemy laws• NCHR reports 17 churches torched ISLAMABAD/KARACHI: The Jaranwala tragedy continued to elicit condemnation on Thursday, with national leaders and international organisations calling for justice for the people whose homes and places of worship were ransacked and destroyed by a frenzied mob. Speaking at an ISPR event, army chief Gen Asim Munir…