Edit in Business Recorder, Mar 1, 2023During the recent months TTP terrorists have focused on targeting the police. In the latest incident last Saturday in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district, two police officers were martyred and two others critically injured when a bomb attached to their vehicle went off. The same day, a police patrol came under attack in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), causing injuries to four. This has been going on not only…
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By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,Feb 26, 2023Two police officers were killed and two others critically injured when a bomb attached to the police vehicle went off in Khuzdar city of Balochistan on Saturday, according to local sources. The explosion took place when the vehicle was patrolling the area near Jhalawan Complex, police officials stated. “Unknown people had placed a magnetic bomb on the police vehicle, and detonated with a remote control, resulting in the…
report in The News, Feb 22, 2023QUETTA: Two personnel of the Levies were martyred in an attack on a checkpoint in the Mastung district of Balochistan on Tuesday. Levies officials said that unknown armed men opened fire on the Levies’ checkpost in the Babri area of Mastung, leaving the two personnel martyred on the spot. The attackers escaped. Soon after the incident, personnel from law enforcement agencies reached the spot and shifted the bodies to…
report in Dawn, February 14th, 2023QUETTA: A police officer was martyred and another man was injured in a heavy exchange of fire with unknown armed men who were traveling in a car in Duki area of Balochistan on Monday. “The firing incident took place at the eastern bypass, a locality on the outskirts of Duki town,” SSP Duki district Syed Abdul Saboor Agha said. He said when a police party, headed by Assistant Sub-Inspector Muhammad…
Report in Dawn, February 11th, 2023QUETTA: Two officers of the Frontier Corps, Balochistan, embraced martyrdom and three soldiers sustained injuries in an explosion near a vehicle of the troops taking part in an operation against miscreants in the Kahan area of Kohlu district, on Friday, officials said. On the basis of credible intelligence, a sanitisation operation was initiated on Feb 10 in the Kohlu area to deny terrorists any liberty of action, according to an…
4 security personnel martyred in terrorist activity from across Pak-Iran border in Balochistan: ISPR
by Naveed Siddiqui in Dawn, January 19th, 2023The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday that four security personnel were martyred during “terrorist activity” from across the Pakistan-Iran border in Balochistan’s Panjgur district. “Today, in a terrorist activity from across Pakistan-Iran border in Chukab sector, district Panjgur, Balochistan, four security forces personnel have embraced martyrdom,” the statement said. It further said that the militants used Iranian soil to “target a convoy of security forces patrolling…
It is astounding that former prime minister Imran Khan still thinks that the best way to deal with the so-called Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has declared a war on this State, is through engagement. In his speech on Tuesday to a seminar organised in Islamabad by his party’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government, he said his government had planned to resettle at least 5,000 TTP fighters and their families in the erstwhile tribal areas with the…
Editorial in Dawn, January 16th, 2023IT is unfortunate that rather than engaging with Balochistan’s Haq Do Tehreek politically, the state is cracking down on its leadership. The movement has for over a year been highlighting what it says is an injustice with Makran, with Maulana Hidayatur Rehman serving as the HDT’s face. The maulana and his movement were catapulted to the national stage in 2021 when he led a massive protest in Gwadar over various…
report in Daily Times, Jan 1, 2023The year 2022 ended with December as the deadliest month for Pakistan while the country suffered as many as 376 terror attacks in last year that resulted in an increased number of casualties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces. The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in its annual report released on Saturday, said that the majority of these attacks were claimed by the banned terror outfits such…