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Midnight attack on Lakki city police station repulsed

Report in Dawn,Sept 10, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police repulsed an attack by terrorists on the Lakki Marwat city police station here on Friday night. An official said on Saturday that a group of terrorists attacked the city police station with sophisticated weapons. He, however, said the assailants could not breach the police station as the policemen deployed there were fully alert and responded effectively. The official said the police station building was located at a…

Mosque blast facilitator killed in CTD operation

report in Dawn, August 26th, 2023KHYBER: An Ali Masjid blast facilitator was killed on Friday during an encounter between suspected militants and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) near Jamrud. A CTD official in Jamrud, who wished to remain anonymous, told Dawn that Abuzar Afridi, who was already in custody, had confessed to have concealed arms and ammunition at a location. He was being taken to the location by a CTD team which was attacked by suspected…

Police official injured in Peshawar attack

Report in Dawn, August 19th, 2023PESHAWAR: A police officer sustained injuries when unknown motorcyclists opened fire at him in Khankhel area on the outskirts of the provincial capital here on Friday morning. The police officials said Sub-Inspector Gul Jalal, a Police Assistance Lines (PAL) officer, was on his way to a mosque for offering morning prayers when he came under attack. They said SHO Mathra police station Abdullah Jalal along with a team reached the…

Christian brothers arrested for blasphemy

AFP report in The Express Tribune, August 19th, 2023FAISALABAD/ ISLAMABAD/ LAHORE: Police have arrested two Christian brothers accused of blasphemy, a spokesperson and a source said on Friday, two days after a mob burnt churches and houses, alleging that the two men desecrated the Holy Quran. Pages of the Holy Quran were found in a street with derogatory comments written on them in red, the police said. One attached extra page also carried the names,…

Two ‘IS militants’ held in Gadap

Report in Dawn, August 19th, 2023KARACHI: Two suspected militants were arrested and a grenade was recovered from them in the Gadap area on Friday, officials said. A Rangers spokesperson said that the held suspects — Farmanullah alias Ihtisham and Daud alias Amir Sahib — were affiliated with the militant Islamic State (IS) group. A joint team of Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) and the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) carried out an intelligence-based raid and arrested the suspects.…

Last Round of Kankor Exam Helds Without Girls’ Participation

By Asma Saayin in ToloNews, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:50 PMThe last round of the current solar year’s university entrance exam (Kankor) was held in Kabul on Friday, but without the participation of girls. The National Examination Authority (NEXA) said that the entrance exam was held in Kabul for one day and fifteen thousand graduates of the twelfth grade participated in the exam. “The exam successfully ended and no problems occurred. This year, many facilities…

Son of PkMAP leader shot dead in Balochistan’s Pishin

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, August 12th, 2023QUETTA: The son of a Pashtunkhwah Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) Khushhal group leader was shot dead by two armed men in Pishin town over a petty dispute on Friday. According to police, Abaseen, 19, the son of PkMAP Central Information Secretary Essa Roshan, was shot dead by Naqibur Rehman in Bilal Colony of Pishin after a dispute over the parking of some vehicles of an NGO. “Abaseen suffered…

Two killed in Waziristan attacks

report in Dawn, August 12th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Two persons were killed in targeted attacks here on Friday, the police said. They said that in the first incident, unknown assailants shot dead a senior employee of Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited, Zarbat Khan in Eidak area of the district. They added that Khan was targeted near Harmaz village. The police also said that Khan’s son, Waqar Khan, president of Youth of Waziristan, was also killed a year…

Over 4,200 suspected militants, facilitators held in 203 Swabi operations in last 6 months

report in in Dawn, July 29th, 2023SWABI: The police conducted 203 search and strike operations during the last six months under the National Action Plan against suspected terrorists and their facilitators in the Swabi district, arresting 4,208 of them, sources told Dawn here on Friday. During this period, the sources said the police also killed two militants. The sources said a total of 349 FIRs were registered against suspects and their facilitators in different police…

Analysis: Awami League-BNP: Fear of violence mounts

by Qadir Kallol in Prothom Alo, July 29, 2023Despite the tensions and heat, BNP and Awami League’s rallies in Dhaka yesterday, Friday, ended peacefully. That is a matter of relief. Today, Saturday, however, BNP is staging sit-in progammes at the entry points to Dhaka. And Awami League has said they will keep these programmes under strict watch. Meanwhile, Dhaka Metropolitan Police last night stated in a press release that no one had been given permission…

Four ARSA operatives held with huge cache of arms in Cox’s Bazar

report in Prothom Alo, Apr 29, 2023Armed Police Battalion (APBN) members detained four members of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) with a huge cache of arms and ammos in Ukhiya upazila of Cox’s Bazar on Friday morning. The detainees, identified as Md Jobayer, 20, Nur Mohammad, 25, Jamila Begum, 48 and Bibi, 16, are all residents of different blocks of the Rohingya camps in the upazila, reports UNB. According to an APBN media release…