Report in Dawn, March 15th, 2023KARACHI: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday claimed to have arrested a man for his alleged links with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. “The CTD carried out an intelligence-based action and arrested Israr, a commander of TTP (Tariq Gedar group),” said a CTD spokesperson. A Kalashnikov was recovered from the suspect, who originally hailed from Darra Adam Khel and had arrived Karachi 20 days ago. “The suspect has come to Karachi…
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Edit in The Nation, March 11, 2023According to a new statement by the Punjab Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), 12 alleged terrorists belonging to the militant outfits of Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were caught and are now awaiting further investigation. Given that these individuals were found supporting equipment needed for explosives and suicide jackets, the case seems pretty straightforward. This is the kind of policing that we need, especially at a time when the country has…
report in The Nation online, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:14 AMThe Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday apprehended 12 terrorists belonging to banned outfits, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda group, during multiple operations in Punjab. According to details, CTD conducted a grand operation on the hideouts of terrorists in several districts of Punjab including Lahore, Sargodha and arrested 12 terror suspects. During the operation in Lahore, forces arrested three terrorists belonging to banned TTP, said…
Editorial in Business Recorder, Mar 5, 2023The US State Department’s perspective on terrorism in Pakistan remains bereft of the whole truth, yet it is welcomed as it shares with Islamabad its concern to get rid of this menace. The department’s Country Reports on Terrorism 2021 goes into some detail about the resurgence of terrorism in the country and warns that Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) wants to push government out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to establish Sharia. It…
by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, February 25th, 2023WASHINGTON: The United States has repatriated two Pakistani brothers who were held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp without any charge, the US Department of Defence announced on Friday. The two brothers, Mohammed Ahmed Ghulam Rabbani, 53, and Abdul Rahim Ghulam Rabbani, 55, were detained over alleged links to terrorism. According to The New York Times, they were never charged with any crimes during the 20-year custody. In…
Report in Dawn, February 23, 2023PESHAWAR: The counter-terrorism department killed a militant and arrested five others in an operation in Tela Band area, some 20 kilometres south of the provincial capital, early on Wednesday. A senior police official told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the operation was carried out after receiving intelligence about the presence of militants in the area. He said the militants both killed and arrested were Afghan nationals and worked for…
by Sirajuddin in Dawn, Feb 23, 2023The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter-Terrorism Department and Lakki Marwat police killed six terrorists, belonging to the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in a joint intelligence-based operation in the jurisdiction of the Dadiwala police station on Thursday. In a statement issued today, Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Shahid Hameed said that the operation was conducted after security personnel got a tip-off that terrorists were planning an attack on the Abbas police checkpost. “When…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 21, 2023Security personnel from the Army as well as the Police were deployed in front of the Government Printing Department yesterday (20), not to provide security for ballot paper printing but due to the protest that was held in Colombo by the Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB). Speaking to The Daily Morning, Police Media Spokesman, Senior Superintendent of Police and Attorney Nihal Thalduwa said that a special security plan…
By Mirudhula Thambiah in The Morning, Feb 20, 2023The Police Department has stated that it will have to consider providing security to the Government Printing Department only when the ballot paper printing process commences, and that officers would have to be reassigned from various police stations and duties as they would have to be deployed at the Printing Department for a longer period than usual. Responding to Government Printer Gangani Liyanage’s statement last week that…
report in Dawn, Feb 19, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested eight suspected terrorists of banned organisation from different areas of the province. The CTD spokesperson said the teams had conducted intelligence-based operations in Lahore, Sargodha and Multan and arrested eight members of banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The teams also recovered a huge quantity of arms, ammunition and suicide jackets from their possession. The CTD also registered seven…
by Pazir Gul in Dawn, February 15th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Seven militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed when cops repulsed an attack on a police van carrying three detained militants to Bannu from North Waziristan, the Counterterrorism Department (CTD) said on Tuesday. The three detained militants were also among those killed in the Monday night clash, the CTD said. The CTD said its officials were shifting the three militants from Miramshah to Bannu…