report in The Island, Dec 26, 2023The police have taken into custody 235,689 cannabis plants during countrywide search operation carried out in the 24 hours that ended at 00.30 on Saturday morning, police said in a media statement. The raids were a part of an ongoing operation to crack down on narcotics, police said. The police took into custody 692 grams of heroin, 393 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 42.1 kilos of cannabis, and large stocks…
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By Asim Yasin in The News, November 30, 2023ISLAMABAD: Caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti Wednesday disclosed that Afghan citizens were involved in most of the terrorist incidents that took place in Pakistan and said the recent suicide bombing on a security forces convoy in Bannu was carried out by an Afghan. “Afghan citizens were involved in 14 out of 26 terrorist incidents which took place in Pakistan”, he said while briefing the Senate Committee on…
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…
report in Dawn, October 21st, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A tribal elder was killed in what the police said a targeted attack carried out by unknown masked men in Mirali area of the North Waziristan tribal district on Friday morning. The police said that Malik Daud Khan was targeted by masked men at a private clinic. They added that the assailants managed to escape after the attack. The police also said that tortured body of an unidentified…
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…
By Prageeth Janaka in The Island, Sept 26, 2023Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith has called on the government to ensure a credible, transparent investigation into the Easter Sunday terror attacks. He has said the need for an international probe could be avoided if the inquiry is carried out with integrity and devoid of political influence. Addressing the media during the golden jubilee celebration of St. Michael’s Church, at Embilipitiya, on Sunday (24), the Cardinal expressed…
report in Dawn, August 29th, 2023DADU: Two terror suspects were arrested in an action carried out by a team of the Counter Terrorism Department in Sikandarabad Colony, Kotri, in Jamshoro district, a spokesman for the Hyderabad CTD said on Monday. Identifying the suspects as Amin Solangi and Ayaz Khan, the spokesman claimed that explosives, detonators, ball-bearings, one 9mm pistol, one 30-bore pistol and bullets were seized from them. He said Solangi appeared to be associated…
by Norman Palihawadane in The Island, July 30, 2023President of the Catholic Bishops Conference of Sri Lanka and Bishop of Kurunegala Rt Rev Dr Harold Anthony Perera says that the powerful hands that had carried out the Easter Sunday terror attacks are behind a new campaign against Colombo Archbishop Malcolm Cardinal Ranjith. Delivering his sermon presiding as the Chief Celebrant of the 117th year Concelebrated High Mass offered at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church…
report in Dawn, July 10th, 2023PESHAWAR: Eleven militants were killed and 35 others arrested along with 477 facilitators during the 40 intelligence-based operations carried out by the police since February 15, according to a report prepared by the Peshawar Intelligence and Response Cell (PIRC). The report, a copy of which is available with Dawn, also said that five networks of extortionists and 23 networks of hundi-hawala were also busted during the operations. It stated that…
report in The Daily Star, May 24, 2023A joint operation will be conducted at Rohingya camps to prevent criminal activities and recover weapons and narcotics, said Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan yesterday. If necessary, the army will be present during the drive, he said. He made the comments after attending a meeting with the National Committee on Coordination, Management, and Law and Order of Forcefully Displaced Myanmar Citizens [Rohingyas] at the Secretariat. To prevent any mischief…
By Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 6th, 2023PESHAWAR: A key militant commander and his seven associates were killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out by security forces in the Shinwarsak area of South Waziristan tribal district, on Wednesday. A sepoy of Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom while four others, including two officers, sustained injuries during the exchange of fire with militants, confirmed the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Local officials said that the eight gunned down…