By Tahir Khan Azikhel in The News, Dec 26, 2023BATKHELA: Unidentified people lobbed a hand-grenade into the hujra of the former member provincial assembly, Peer Musawwar Khan Ghazi, on Monday, sources said. It was learnt that the hujra or male guest house of the former MPA was attacked with a hand grenade as soon as he reached his adjacent house. “ The sound of a motorcycle approaching the hujra was heard and it was followed…
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by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, August 23th, 2023KHUZDAR: Some unidentified miscreants hurled a hand grenade at Jhalawan Complex on Quetta-Karachi National Highway in Khuzdar on Tuesday evening, injuring two people. According to police, a man and a child passing through the area, were injured after being hit by splinters of the hand grenade. They were identified as Mohammad Aslam Shahzai and Mohammad Arshad, 10. Police rushed to the area and shifted the injured to…
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.…
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.…
report in Dawn, August 12th, 2023CHARSADDA: Unknown miscreants lobbed a hand grenade onto the office of DSP Shabqadar, damaging the building. However, no loss of life was reported, officials said. They said the newly-appointed DSP Gul Sheed had assumed charge of his office a few hours before the attack. The police started a search operation to track down the attackers. Meanwhile, a man and his wife were killed and three others, including his second wife,…
Report in Pakistan Today, June 26. 2023PESHAWAR: In a tragic incident in Bannu city of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a series of hand grenade explosions claimed the life of one person and left 12 others injured. The explosions occurred during the early hours of Sunday when two hand grenades were thrown at the residence of local resident Zia ur-Rahman, according to the police. The explosions resulted in the loss of one individual’s life, while 11 others,…
report in Dawn, June 15th, 2023QUETTA: A private school was damaged in a grenade attack on Wednesday in Mastung town. Police said some motorcyclists hurled the grenade at the Taleem Foundation Grammar School in the Sarawan area. However, the grenade exploded outside the school. The explosion damaged the school’s boundary wall and smashed some windowpanes. The attackers fled the scene after the incident. No person or group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.https://www.dawn.com/news/1759809/school-attacked-in-mastung
Report in Dawn, May 2nd, 2023QUETTA: At least two security personnel sustained injuries in a grenade attack on an FC checkpoint near Nushki on the Quetta-Taftan highway on Monday, officials said. In the early hours of morning, the officials said, some motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade at the FC checkpoint but managed to speed away when countered by gunfire. Two security personnel who were injured in the attack were rushed to hospital, while security forces…
Report in Dawn, April 22nd, 2023SWABI: A constable, who was seriously injured in a terrorist attack earlier this month, succumbed to injuries in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Friday. Constable Mohammad Tayyab was performing duty at Tordher police station when two unidentified motorcyclists lobbed a grenade at the building on April 9. The policeman along with some civilians was injured. Tayyab’s death took the number of the police personnel martyred in Swabi during Ramazan to…
report in Dawn, April 20th, 2023QUETTA: A shepherd was killed in a grenade blast on the outskirts of Chaman on Wednesday. Officials said the shepherd was in the Spina Tezha area of Chaman with his livestock when he found the hand grenade and started playing with it. The grenade exploded in his hands. “A body portion of the shepherd blew up in the grenade explosion,” Levies officials said. Deputy Commissioner Ismail Ibrahim said a probe…