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…
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Report in Dawn, August 15th, 2023PESHAWAR: The police and security forces repulsed three midnight militant attacks at as many locations in the jurisdiction of Mattani police station – an area bordering the Kohat district – some 50 kilometres south of the provincial capital. Police officials said that militants attacked Hameed Khan police post with latest weaponry from a nearby forest. However, they said that the militants could not hit the police post since they were…
report in Dawn, August 12th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Two persons were killed in targeted attacks here on Friday, the police said. They said that in the first incident, unknown assailants shot dead a senior employee of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, Zarbat Khan in Eidak area of the district. They added that Khan was targeted near Harmaz village. The police also said that Khan’s son, Waqar Khan, president of Youth of Waziristan, was also killed a year…
Report in Dawn, August 8th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN/PESHAWAR: Four people were martyred and two injured in separate attacks in North Waziristan and Peshawar on Monday, local officials and police confirmed. In the first attack, a couple was martyred in a bomb attack targeting security forces in Saidgai area of North Waziristan near the Pak-Afghan border. A Bomb Disposal Unit was carrying out a search operation in the area when a suicide bomber, travelling in a vehicle…
AFP report in Dawn, August 7th, 2023KABUL: Afghanistan’s supreme leader has warned Taliban members against carrying out attacks abroad, the defence minister said, days after Islamabad hinted at involvement of “Afghan citizens” in suicide attacks inside Pakistan. Mohammad Yaqoob Mujahid said in a speech to members of Afghanistan’s security forces, broadcast by state television on Saturday, that fighting outside Afghanistan is not religiously sanctioned jihad but rather war, which had been barred by Supreme Leader…
Report in Dawn, Aug 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan grapples with an increase in militant attacks seemingly emanating from across the border, a top White House National Security official has called the threat “more ideologically diverse and geographically diffuse”, underscoring the need for keeping pace with the threat level. “More broadly, today’s terrorist threat is more ideologically diverse and geographically diffuse than that of two decades ago. Al-Qaeda, ISIS and associated forces have expanded from Afghanistan…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, August 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan is grappling with a distressing surge in suicide attacks, witnessing a significant rise in fatalities and injuries compared to the previous year. The country has already experienced 18 suicide attacks in the first seven months of 2023, resulting in the loss of more than 200 lives and leaving over 450 others injured. This alarming figure has surpassed the total number of suicide attacks recorded in the…
by Tom Hussain in SCMP, Aug 1, 2023The writer is an Islamabad-based journalist who has spent his 35-year career covering South Asia and the Middle East.An upsurge in terrorist attacks in western Pakistan highlights the risks involved in expanding China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the country even as Chinese firms are “learning the ropes” on how to cope with the rise in violence, analysts say. Amid ongoing celebrations to commemorate the 10th anniversary of…
Report in Dawn, July 24th, 2023KARACHI: While questioning the policies of the state, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on Sunday called for reconsideration of priorities being pursued by the state at a time when terrorist attacks are increasing in the country. Besides, the former prime minister slammed the caretaker government of Punjab on the treatment being meted out to PTI’s jailed leader Mian Mehmoodur Rasheed. In a series of tweets, Mr Khan said that…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, July 13th, 2023QUETTA: As many as 12 soldiers of the Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom in separate military operations in the Zhob and Sui areas of Balochistan, while seven “heavily armed” militants who reportedly attacked the security forces were also killed, the military’s media wing said in multiple statements on Wednesday. This was the military’s highest single-day death toll from terrorist attacks reported this year. Before this, 10 personnel were martyred…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, July 12, 2023Taliban’s Interior Minister in a letter stated that Islamic State (ISIS) militants are planning to launch attacks targeting senior Taliban leaders, provincial governors, officials and more. Abdul Mateen Qaneh, Taliban’s spokesperson for the interior ministry on Tuesday, July 11, confirmed the content of the letter but avoided providing further details about the potential threats. The letter was delivered on July 9 to the Taliban’s police command throughout…