By Munawer Azeem | Atika Rehman in Dawn, December 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD/LONDON: As a long march led by Baloch women against enforced disappearances and extra-judicial killings, reached the outskirts of the federal capital on Wednesday, Islamabad police blocked entry points of the city along with major arteries to prevent the protesters from reaching the National Press Club. Initially, police blocked Jinnah Avenue and other routes leading to the press club. Later on, they also blocked Srinagar…
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by Tariq Saeed Birmani | Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 18th, 2023DERA GHAZI KHAN/QUETTA: Police conducted a crackdown and detained “at least 20 participants, including women”, who joined the long march against the alleged “extra-judicial killings” by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Turbat, Balochistan, as it entered the city on Sunday. According to details, the long march of the Baloch Yakjehti Council (BYC), led by Mohammad Asif Laghari and originating from Balochistan, was intercepted…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 9th, 2023KARACHI: A policeman was shot dead by unidentified persons when he was returning home after visiting a graveyard on the outskirts of the city on Sunday, police and his relatives said. The SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area police said Sub-Inspector Amir Ali, 52, who was in plain clothes, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen ‘due to unknown reasons’ near Chakar Hotel on the M-9 motorway….. Talking to reporters, SSP-East Syed…
report in Khaama Press online, Sept 16, 2023Imam Ali Rahman, the President of Tajikistan, expressed concern during the fifth summit of Central Asian countries’ leaders, which took place in the city of Dushanbe. He voiced his concerns about the increasing threats of terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan into Tajikistan. According to Sputnik News, Imam Ali Rahman reported that Tajik security forces thwarted a terrorist attack on the eve of Tajikistan’s Independence Day, launched from…
report in TOLOnews, Aug 14, 2023 at 3:00 PMAt least three people were killed and seven were injured in a blast that occurred at a hotel in the capital city of Khost, a statement of provincial security department said. Citing a statement of Khost security, Kabul’s security spokesman, Khalid Zadran, said on Twitter that the blast happened at a hotel near Spin mosque in the city, in which a number of “Waziristan refugees” and “Khost…
by Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, Apr 22, 2023The forthcoming elections to five city corporations have left ruling Awami League, opposition BNP and Election Commission in a quandary. All these three sides think that these elections can have an impact on the next general election. Any wrong step in the city elections can be costly for them. As a result, all three sides have different challenges centering the city polls. What strategies BNP takes in…
Report in Dawn, March 27th, 2023DADU: A hand grenade was safely defused by the bomb disposal squad (BDS) of Sehwan police after it was found lying on the rail tracks near Bagh-i-Yousuf in the city on Sunday. Sehwan SHO Abdul Jabbar Memon told local reporters that the area police received information from some people about presence of the grenade on the track. A joint team of the Sehwan police station and Madadgar-15 rushed to the…
report in The Daily Star, Feb 26, 2023Detectives in Rajshahi have busted a torture cell, used by kidnappers, in the city’s Hetomkhan area and arrested four suspects. Bijoy Basak, additional commissioner of Rajshahi Metropolitan Police, said police came to know about the torture cell while investigating a kidnapping case. Police arrested four members of a kidnapping gang during a special operation on Friday, and recovered locally-made weapons, the official said during a press conference at…
report in Dawn, January 27th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army and police launched a joint search operation against terrorists in a forest along the Kurram River near Lakki Marwat city on Thursday. Official sources told Dawn that a large contingent of military and police personnel was dispatched to the riverside area o a tip-off about the presence of terrorists. They said that those personnel went to the area in the wee hours of the day…