by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat | Irfan Mughal in Dawn, March 6th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT / D.I. Khan: One person died and two others sustained injuries in an explosion in Bakkakhel town of Bannu district on Sunday. The blast took place hours after suspected militants attacked a checkpoint within the jurisdiction of Kulachi police station. According to officials, a motorcycle fitted with an improvised explosive device (IED) was parked on a road in the Mandi market area…
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report in The News, Mar 3, 2023An anti-terrorism court has indicted three alleged facilitators of an IED blast that had killed a woman and injured 11 others, including policemen, in Karachi’s Kharadar area in May last year. The ATC-XVI judge read out charges against three suspects — Dilbar Ali, Abdul Qayyum and Abdul Sattar — said to be associated with the outlawed Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA). They pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the…
by Ali Jan Mangi in Dawn, February 5th, 2023DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two security personnel were injured in a road-side blast at the Quetta-Sibi national highway in Bolan district, on Saturday. Officials said personnel of Frontier Corps were escorting the vehicle of an officer when the blast took place near Sirajabad. The injured security personnel were moved to district hospital Dhadar. Security forces arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. A search operation has…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press,Feb 5, 2023Afghan caretaker government security officials have reported a blast that took place in ‘Pashtunistan Square’ in district two of Kabul city late Saturday. Khalid Zadran Spokesperson of Kabul Police Command has confirmed the incident to Khaama Press that an explosion took place on Saturday evening in Pashtunistan Square. Mr. Zadran said the explosion was caused by a magnetic mine placed in a Toyota ‘Hilux’ vehicle, which injured two…
By Imran Danish, TOLOnews Feb 1, 2023 at 8:43 PMActing Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi said that Pakistan shouldn’t put the blame for the explosion on a mosque in Peshawar, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on Afghanistan. Speaking at the opening of a 5,000-bed support facility for drug addicts in Kabul, Muttaqi added that there is no terrorist base in Afghanistan and the county’s soil will not be used against other countries. “We ask Pakistan’s…
by Shah Meer Baloch and Hannah Ellis-Petersen in The Guardian, Feb 1, 2023Waziristan/Mumbai: The bomber struck shortly before afternoon prayers, when the mosque in Peshawar’s bustling Police Lines district would be at its busiest. Hundreds of people, including many police officers, were inside as the device detonated, creating a blast so strong the roof and wall collapsed and 100 people were killed. The attack on Monday was among the worst in years to hit Peshawar,…
report in Dawn, January 17th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Mobile van of the Lakki Marwat city police station narrowly escaped a bomb blast here on Monday. An official said unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device under a culvert on the Old Kutchery Road to target a police patrolling party. He said the area where the bomb was planted was at a stone’s throw from the city police station and the tehsil building housing offices of…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in ToloNews, Jan 11, 2023 at 11:35 PMA blast took place in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in downtown Kabul on Wednesday afternoon. At least five civilians were killed and several others were wounded in the blast, a spokesman for the Kabul security department, Khalid Zadran, said. He said the Islamic Emirate condemns such “heinous” attacks and will punish the perpetrators. He said the explosion happened on the…
by Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews, Jan 1, 2023 at 3:15 PMA blast took place on Sunday morning near the gate of the military airport in Kabul, a spokesman for the Ministry of Interior said. MoI spokesman Abdul Nafay Takoor said that the blast inflicted casualties, leaving several people dead and wounded. But he did not provide the exact number of casualties. “The incident happened at around 08:00 am. There were civilian casualties. Some…
by Naveed Siddiqui in Dawn, Dec 20th, 2022A soldier and two civilians were martyred in a suicide blast in North Waziristan district’s Miranshah on Monday, the military’s media wing said. A press release from the Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR) identified the soldier as 33-year-old Naik Abid from Mansehra. The ISPR added that one civilian was injured in the incident too. Today’s incident comes five days after a soldier and a civilian were martyred in…