By Umar Cheema in The News, Sept 6, 2023ISLAMABAD: A militant having blood on his hands of more than 40 members of the Hazara community, including the Mach attack he masterminded killing a dozen coal miners of the same ethnicity, has finally been apprehended by a civilian agency, the Intelligence Bureau, when he entered Pakistan from Afghanistan. Son of a baildar, a low-rank government employee, Abdul Bari, had been on the watchlist of all security…
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Report in Dawn, June 6th, 2023PESHAWAR/SWAT: Three soldiers were martyred during clashes between security forces and militants in North and South Waziristan districts, according to the military’s media affairs wing. Two militants were also killed in the fighting, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. In Swat, meanwhile, a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) was arrested during an operation in which a civilian lost his life and a policeman was injured. ISPR said…
Report in Dawn, June 6th, 2023PESHAWAR/SWAT: Three soldiers were martyred during clashes between security forces and militants in North and South Waziristan districts, according to the military’s media affairs wing. Two militants were also killed in the fighting, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. In Swat, meanwhile, a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) was arrested during an operation in which a civilian lost his life and a policeman was injured. ISPR said…
by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, Mar 2, 2023KHUZDAR: A senior Levies official survived a roadside IED blast, but a civilian was hit by its splinters and died on the spot in the Juhan area of Kalat district on Wednesday. Officials said unknown miscreants had planted the improvised explosives device at the roadside to target the vehicle of the Levies officer, but he passed through the area without any loss. “The IED exploded when a…
Report in Dawn, January 14th, 2023DERA GHAZI KHAN: A police official and a civilian were killed, and one police official was injured in a drive-by attack by two motorcyclists at the Jhangi police checkpoint, Vehowa tehsil of Taunsa Sharif district, and escaped. According to sources, the gunmen attacked the Punjab police off-road border checkpoint and killed police official Mazar and one unidentified passer-by. Ramzan, a policeman, was injured. The attack was carried out by unidentified…
Report in Dawn, December 16th, 2022ISLAMABAD: On a day when a cross-border attack from Afghanistan killed a civilian in Chaman on Thursday, Senator Farook H. Naek called for revisiting the strategy towards Afghanistan. He was chairing a meeting of the Senate Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs which was briefed on the recent ‘assassination’ attempt on the Pakistani head of mission in Kabul. Senator Naek expressed serious reservations over the attack that took place earlier this…