Editorialin Dawn, February 17th, 2023IF the analysis of an American government think tank stating that the Afghan Taliban are unwilling to end their support for the banned TTP is accurate, it would put to rest the illusion harboured by some in our security establishment that a Taliban government in Kabul is good for Pakistan. If anything, the US Institute of Peace report paints an unsettling picture, which shows that not only are the Afghan rulers…
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Report in Dawn, Feb 12th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have killed a suspected terrorist allegedly belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in an encounter and arrested 11 other members of banned outfits from different cities during intelligence-based operations (IBOs) across Punjab. According to a spokesperson, the Punjab CTD conducted 26 IBOs in different districts of the province to counter the menace of terrorism and interrogated 26 suspects. During…
report in Dawn, February 9th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Wednesday to have killed a member of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in an encounter in Khanewal. A spokesperson claimed that the Multan CTD got a tip-off that members of a group involved in heinous terrorist activities, including attack on law-enforcement agencies (LEAs), were present in the vicinity of Chak 40/10-R in Khanewal. He said the suspected terrorists were planning to carry…
Report in Dawn, Feb 8th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday arrested a suspected terrorist from Multan and recovered a suicide jacket from him. According to details, the CTD Multan arrested a suspected member of proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Muhammad Hammad alias Commando Musa and recovered a suicide vest, arms and ammunition. The CTD claimed that the suspect was present in the area to execute a terrorist activity. The Multan CTD registered a…
report in ECONOMYNEXT, January 24, 2023 6:50 am– Sri Lanka’s tea output fell to a 26 year low of 251.5 million kilograms as the urban intelligentsia tried to create an interventionist state and banned chemical fertilizer. Chemical fertilizer was banned on the advice of the Government Medical Officers Association, whose boss said ancient Sri Lankans lived for over a century before chemical fertilizers were invented. Tea output fell 16 percent or 48 million kilograms in…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 22, 2023Rapid Action Battalion arrested a convicted member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area yesterday. The arrestee, Tauhidur Rahman Tauhid, 32, was sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Tribunal in a case filed with Hazaribagh Police Station. He is an active member of the “Dawah” and finance department of the militant outfit, said Md Fazlul Haque, media officer of Rab-2. Acting on…
Report in Dawn, Jan 21st, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department on Friday claimed to have arrested eight suspected members of banned organisations from different areas of the province. The CTD conducted 48 combing and search operations, in which 48 localities were checked in different districts of Punjab. As many as 2,651 suspects were interrogated and 478 persons were biometrically checked. During these operations, eight suspects were arrested and cases were registered against them in different…
by Rashidul Hasan in The Daily Star, Jan 1, 2023Jamaat-e-Islami sees the simultaneous movement with BNP and other like-minded political parties as a chance to revive itself and return to politics at a time when many want it banned for opposing the country’s independence in 1971. Pro-liberation organisations have long demanded that the religious extremist group be tried for its role in the crimes against humanity committed during the Liberation War. Besides, Jamaat is infamously…
Report in Dawn, December 25th, 2022LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested seven suspected terrorists belonging to banned organisations in different intelligence-based operations from various areas of the province. The CTD also recovered arms, ammunition and explosives and registered cases under terrorism charges against them. With a view to effectively countering the menace of terrorism, the CTD Punjab has conducted extensive IBOs across the province to avert any untoward incident.…
THE Afghan Taliban’s assault on women’s freedoms continues, as the hard-line movement that rules Afghanistan has recently announced that female students will not be able to attend classes at public and private universities. Ever since they took Kabul last year, the movement has increasingly cracked down on women’s freedoms, despite hopes that ‘Taliban 2.0’ would have shed the rigid outlook of their earlier avatar. This has clearly not been the case, as shocked female university…