Report in Dawn, December 30th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Suspected militants torched a government higher secondary school for girls in Kotka Mambati Barakzai area of Bannu on Thursday night. A police official said the school was located in Miryan tehsil. He added the attackers set the science lab and equipment dumped there on fire. The official said the laboratory and staffroom along with furniture and other objects were destroyed. He added the militants also took away the…
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Report in Dawn, December 27th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Security forces repulsed a militant attack on an army checkpost in Janikhel town of Bannu district on Tuesday night. Official sources said unknown militants attacked the post with heavy weapons, prompting the soldiers to retaliate. They said a fierce gun battle ensured and sounds of explosions were heard in the area. The gunfight continued for some time and the security forces foiled the terror attack gallantly, forcing the…
by Kamran Yousaf in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: The head of the Afghan diplomatic mission in Pakistan was summoned on Tuesday by the Foreign Office (FO) and conveyed four demands including extradition of Hafiz Gul Bahadur, whose group carried out the recent terrorist attack in Bannu. Two civilians lost their lives while 10 others, including three security forces personnel, were injured in a suicide attack in Bannu’s Bakka Khel area, the Inter-Services Public…
Bureau Report in Dawn, November 28th, 2023PESHAWAR: The death toll from Sunday’s suicide attack on a security convoy in Bannu increased to two on Monday and the military identified the attacker as an Afghan national. Ten people were injured in the incident while the attacker was identified as an Afghan national affiliated with Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group, according to a statement released by the Inter-Services Public Relations. The attacker was riding a motorcycle laden with…
report in Dawn, November 20th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT/KOHAT: A policeman was martyred and his colleague received injuries when unknown motorcyclists attacked them on Mandan Road in Bannu district on Sunday, an official said. He said two cops of the Ababeel Squad came under fire when they were on patrol duty in the area. He said the attackers escaped. The attack left Iqrarullah dead, and his colleague, Shafiur Rehman seriously wounded. The official said the deceased and…
by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, September 1st, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: At least nine soldiers were martyred and five others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber on a motorbike targeted a military convoy in the Janikhel town of Bannu district on Thursday evening, the army said. In a late-night statement, the military’s media wing identified one of the martyred soldiers as Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali. It said the security forces had cordoned off the area and…
Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A policeman accompanying a polio team was martyred when unidentified miscreants targeted him in Miryan area of Bannu district on Wednesday, an official said. He said lower head constable (LHC) Kamran Khan was on the security duty with polio workers in Akhundkhel area when he came under the attack. The official said Kamran received serious bullet wounds and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead…….…
Iftikhar Shirazi in Dawn, June 4, 2023 Two soldiers were martyred and as many terrorists killed during an exchange of fire in the Janikhel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Saturday, according to a statement issued by the military’s media affairs wing. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said security personnel “effectively engaged the terrorists’ location” during the gun battle, as a result of which “two terrorists were sent to hell”. Meanwhile, the ISPR added,…
Report in Dawn, March 13th, 2023PESHAWAR: Keeping in view the upsurge in militant attacks on law enforcement agencies, the authorities have provided armoured personnel carriers (APC) to police of Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu regions. The APCs, handed over to police of Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu divisions in the provincial capital on Sunday, would help the law-enforcers to effectively counter militant attacks, said a statement. “The latest weaponry, used by the US and its…
by Pazir Gul in Dawn, February 15th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Seven militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed when cops repulsed an attack on a police van carrying three detained militants to Bannu from North Waziristan, the Counterterrorism Department (CTD) said on Tuesday. The three detained militants were also among those killed in the Monday night clash, the CTD said. The CTD said its officials were shifting the three militants from Miramshah to Bannu…
report in The Nation online, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:38 AMPolice repulsed an armed attack of the terrorists on a police picket in Kashu Pull, Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). According to details, terrorists attacked the Kashu Pul police picket in the limits of PS Domel in Bannu and opened fire at the police personnel. Police returned the fire and after the exchange of fire, the terrorist escape from the scene. No casualty was reported in…