By Naweed Samadi in TOLOnews Online Dec 29, 2023 at 8:54 PMKazakhstan ambassador to Afghanistan Alim Khan Yasin Galdiev in a meeting with the acting foreign minister, Amir Khan Muttaqi, said that his country has taken the Islamic Emirate off the list of groups whose activities are banned in this country. The deputy spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Hafiz Zia Ahmad Takal, quoted Alim Khan Yasin Galdiev as saying that Kazakhstan wants to expand its…
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report in Dhaka Tribune,Dec 14, 2023The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) division of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) has arrested a top leader of the banned militant outfit Hizb ut-Tahrir. He was arrested from Bashundhara residential area by the City Intelligence Analysis Division of the CTTC. The arrestee was identified as Imtiaz Selim alias Imadul Amin. He is one of the current leaders of the banned militant outfit. He completed his bachelor’s and master’s from…
by Tanjil Hasan in The Daily Star, Nov 25, 2023At least 300 factories continue to make these deadly fishing traps in Munshiganj due to lax monitoring and lenient punishmentAlthough a ban enforced by the government is in place for gill nets, locally known as current nets, to save fish species including hilsa from overfishing, the production and use of the nets have been continuing unabated. Experts said the absence of a sustained effort from different…
report in Dawn, November 23rd, 2023SAHIWAL: In an intelligence-based operation, the regional office of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), in collaboration with the police, arrested a banned-outfit militant in the Chichawatni vicinity. The CTD recovered explosive material, detonators, dry batteries, electric circuits, and switches used for improvised blasts. The militant, identified as Waheedullah in the mid-30s, belonged to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mohmand area. He was shifted to an undisclosed location for further investigation. The CTD claimed…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, Nov 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Despite simmering tensions with Afghanistan, Pakistan is confident that it can sort out the issue of banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), officials, who deal with the matter, believe. “It is not the question of a contingency plan. It is the question of capability and we have that capability to tackle the problem,” a senior official told The Express Tribune here on Wednesday while requesting anonymity. He…
Report in Dawn, Nov 12th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday claimed to have arrested five suspected terrorists belonging to banned organisations during operations in different areas of the province. According to the departmental spokesman, the CTD conducted 179 intelligence- based operations in different districts and arrested 179 suspected persons whose interrogation led to capture of five alleged terrorists with weapons, explosives and other prohibited material. The arrested were identified as Muhammad Khalid,…
AFP report, Nov 6, 2023KABUL: Poppy cultivation and opium production have plunged 95 per cent in Afghanistan since Taliban authorities banned the crop, according to a UN report published on Sunday.Since returning to power in 2021, Taliban authorities have vowed to end illegal drug production in Afghanistan and in April 2022 banned the cultivation of the poppy plant, from which opium and heroin are made. The report by the United Nations Office on Drugs and…
Report in Dawn, October 26th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan were killed in an encounter with the police in Prova tehsil here on Wednesday, an official claimed. He said on a tip-off about presence of TTP militants in Prova tehsil, the police launched a search and strike operation in the area. He said during the operation, militants opened fire on the policemen, who responded promptly. During exchange of fire, two…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 7th, 2023QUETTA: Counter-terrorism officials killed two militants belonging to the banned Baloch Liberation Army in an exchange of fire in the Hazar Gangi area. A CTD spokesman in a statement on Friday said that an intelligence-based operation was conducted in the Shalkot Hazar Ganji area against the banned BLA and a plot of terrorism was foiled by killing two militants and recovering arms, ammunition. The spokesman said the CTD…
Report in Dawn, October 5th, 2023PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) arrested four militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in an intelligence-based operation carried out in the Buner district. The arrested militants, including three from Buner and one from Chitral district, were allegedly involved in target killings and extortion, according to statement issued by the CTD here on Wednesday. It said that explosives, hand grenades and ammunition were also recovered from the militants. The statement said…