Reuters report in The Express Tribune, June 23, 2023WASHINGTON DC: US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday called on Pakistan to act to ensure that its territory is not used to launch extremist attacks, the White House said in a joint statement. “They strongly condemned cross-border terrorism, the use of terrorist proxies and called on Pakistan to take immediate action to ensure that no territory under its control is used…
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report in The Daily Star, Mar 21, 2023US Ambassador to Bangladesh Peter Haas yesterday expressed concern over the recent attack on the Ahmadiyya community in Panchagarh. The US envoy was visiting the national centre of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat (AMJ) at the city’s Bakshibazar. He enquired about the incident, AMJ said in a press release. The ambassador also expressed his interest in visiting Panchagarh soon, the press release claimed.https://www.thedailystar.net/news/bangladesh/diplomacy/news/haas-concerned-attacks-ahmadiyyas-3276551
report in Dawn, May 20, 2023Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq on Friday narrowly escaped a “suicide attack” that targeted his convoy in Balochistan’s Zhob while six others were injured, according to police. City police station Station House Officer (SHO) Sher Ali Mandokhail told Dawn.com that all of the injured were being treated at Civil Hospital, Zhob and one of them was in critical condition. He said Haq’s vehicle was partly damaged in the incident while…
By Zarmeen Zehra in The News, May 20, 2023The names of Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Senior Vice President Maryam Nawaz are on a “hit-list” of terrorist outfits which are planning to launch attacks on leaders of the armed forces, intelligence agencies and politicians. The attacks are being planned by the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its faction Jamaat-ul-Ahraar (JuA), which are also planning to target government officials. Furthermore, they also…
By Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, May 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: The month of April this year witnessed a slight increase in the number of terror incidents, as there were 48 militant attacks, which resulted in 68 deaths and 55 injuries, said a report released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) on Monday. The previous month saw 39 militant attacks which led to 58 deaths and 73 injuries. There was a 23 per cent…
Report in The News, April 25, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A retired intelligence officer and a police official were martyred in separate attacks in Lakki City, official sources said on Monday. They said that two armed men forced their entry into the hujra (male guest house) of Col (Retd) Muqarrab Khan Marwat in Khoidadkhel. One of the accused aimed his gun at the guests and relatives of the victim warning them not to move while the other…
report in Daily FT, Apr 24, 2023 Says mastermind of attacks can be identified by asking three simple questions**Claims it was Gotabaya Rajapaksa that got clear advantage from devastating attacks***Expresses dismay Govt. has failed to deliver justice to victims and is instead trying to create terrorists out of others by bringing in new undemocratic laws****Calls on President Wickremesinghe to deliver justice to the victims through the courts Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) MP Eran Wickramaratne yesterday…
By Fatima Adib in ToloNew, Apr 23, 2023 at 9:08 PMThe Islamic Emirate denied the report of The Washington Post saying that Afghanistan has become a significant coordination site for a Daesh group that plans attacks across Europe and Asia, and conducts “aspirational plotting” against the United States. The Washington Post cited a “classified Pentagon assessment that portrays the threat as a growing security concern.” “The attack planning, detailed in US intelligence findings leaked on…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, Apr 21, 2023 at 02:18 pmArchbishop of Colombo His Eminence Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith today called for a fresh and transparent probe into Easter Sunday attacks and said justice cannot be expected from the incumbent President or the government. “We need a fresh and transparent probe which is directed towards finding out as to why the repeated prior warnings on the Easter Sunday attacks were not taken seriously, to…
Edit in The Nation, April 17, 2023A recently released report by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) reveals that at least 854 people were killed or wounded in militant attacks and counterterrorism operations in the first quarter of this year, a number that was half of what witnessed during the entire 2022. These numbers only underscore how serious the challenge is and that we are now in the middle of a full-blown internal…
Report in Dawn, April 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD: At least 854 people were killed or wounded in militant attacks and counterterrorism operations in the first quarter of this year, a number that was half of what witnessed during the entire 2022, a report showed on Saturday. According to the report, prepared by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, the number of deaths was 358 and that of injuries was 496, which resulted from as many as…