By Mushtaq Paracha in The News, Nov 24, 2023NOWSHERA: A cop was martyred in an armed attack in the Akora Khattak town of the Nowshera district here on Thursday, police said. District Police Officer (DPO) Nasir Mehmood confirmed the incident to the media and said it happened near the mausoleum of the nationalist poet , Ajmal Khattak, on the Muhajir Bazaar Road. Giving the details, he said the Ababeel Squad of the police was busy…
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report in The Express Tribune, November 5th, 2023.Former federal minister Fawad Chaudhry was arrested in Islamabad on Saturday, confirmed the former PTI leader’s wife. Hiba Chaudhry took to X (formerly Twitter) this afternoon to announce that her husband was arrested, adding that his whereabouts were “unknown”. Fawad’s brother, Faisal Chaudhry, also confirmed the news. Hearing a plea filed against the former information minister’s arrest and seeking his recovery, the magistrate of the Kohsar police station,…
by Mohammad Asghar in Dawn, Sept 18th, 2023RAWALPINDI: Former interior minister and Awami Muslim League (AML) chairman Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, who is also an ally of PTI, was arrested from his residence in Bahria Town on Sunday and taken to an undisclosed location, his lawyer confirmed. When contacted, Sardar Abdul Razzak Khan, the lawyer for the former interior minister, told Dawn that Sheikh Rashid, his nephew Sheikh Shakir and a staff member Mohammad Imran were…
By Fatema Adeeb in ToloNews, Sept 6, 2023 at 8:35 PMFormer president Hamid Karzai’s relatives confirmed there is a ban on Karzai’s travel abroad. The relatives of Hamid Karzai confirmed to TOLOnews that three official invitations from other nations were sent to Karzai when he returned from the UK, but the Islamic Emirate has not yet let him travel abroad. In the meantime, a source told TOLOnews that Hamid Karzai was not permitted to meet…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, August 19th, 2023• Asserts fresh electoral rolls, delimitation are constitutional requirements, foregoing them would deprive voters of ‘true representation’• Says substantial changes have occurred in population of provinces, constituencies ISLAMABAD: Just a day after announcing a delimitation schedule that all but confirmed that polls would be delayed for longer than the stipulated 90-day period, the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) defended its move, saying the exercise was a constitutional…
AFP report in Dawn, July 5th, 2023KABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have ordered beauty parlours across the country to shut within a month, the vice ministry confirmed on Tuesday, the latest curb to squeeze women out of public life. The order will force the closure of thousands of businesses run by women — often the only source of income for households — and outlaw one of the few remaining opportunities for them to socialise away from…
report in Prothom Alo, May 16, 2023Law enforcement agencies including the police do not have any specific information about the whereabouts of Major (retd) Abdul Jalil, the main accused in the Colonel Khandkar Nazmul Huda murder case. It has been confirmed that he is alive. It is learned that he used to live in an apartment in Siddheshwari of the capital a couple of years ago. Nobody has any information as to where he lives…
report in Daily Times, mar 18, 2023The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday revealed that the mastermind behind the police lines mosque suicide bomb attack has been traced and confirmed that a faction of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was behind it. Additional IG CTD Shaukat Abbas and DIG CTD Sohail Khalid stated that the attack was planned in Afghanistan and that a second suicide bomber was also prepared to carry out the…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2023CHAGAI: A huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered during an intelligence-based operation near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chagai district, a district official confirmed. Dalbandin Assistant Commissioner Abdul Basit Buzdar told Dawn that mortar shells, anti-aircraft guns’ bullets and other ammunition was dumped in a mountainous area which was recovered. However, no arrest was made during the raid.https://www.dawn.com/news/1729329/huge-cache-of-weapons-seized