by Abdul Wahid Shahwani Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023KHUZDAR: A Levies official was gunned down by unidentified men in Mastung on Thursday. According to Levies officials, armed men riding motorcycles targeted the man on the city’s bus stand. He died on the spot. Two other people who were passing by were injured….. The deceased was identified as Abdul Zahir. The attack has been classified as targeted killing and the police have initiated an investigation.…
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report in Dawn, July 9th, 2023QUETTA: Unknown attackers gunned down a tribal elder and injured two others in the city on Saturday, according to the police. The police said armed men opened fire on Lala Zahir Khan Dummar when he was passing through the Double Road area. He died on the spot while his two friends were injured. The police shifted the body and injured to the Civil Hospital. The deceased sustained multiple bullet injuries,…
Report in Dawn, June 19th, 2023PESHAWAR: A key militant commander and his two associates were gunned down by security forces in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out in district Kohat’s Darra Adam Khel area, official sources said. Officials said that the security forces planned the operation following intelligence about presence of the banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) commander Zafar Khan alias Zafari, adding that the agencies and security forces adopted unconventional operational procedures based on…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, March 22nd, 2023KARACHI: A religious scholar was shot dead in what police described as a targeted attack in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Tuesday morning. The area police said that Mufti Abdul Qayyum, 45, was targeted by two assailants in Block-9 at around 7am when he was returning home after offering Fajr prayer. SSP-East Zubair Nazeer Shaikh said that the scholar was on foot when two men on a motorcycle intercepted him, fired…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, March 11th, 2023PESHAWAR: Just two days after the killing of six militants in Datta Khel, at least five militants were gunned down and a huge cache of arms and ammunition was seized from their possession during an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) carried out by the security forces in North and South Waziristan districts on Friday. According to local officials, security forces acting on information received about presence of militants in parts…
report in Dawn, March 7th, 2023KOHAT: A sub-divisional officer of the Military Engineering Services (MES) was gunned down outside a mosque in the posh KDA Township here on Monday, the police said. They said the deceased, Inamullah Khattak, had come to his home in Kohat on leave from Quetta. They said his body was shifted to the KDA Teaching Hospital for postmortem, and then handed over to relatives for burial. Shaista Begum, wife of the…
Report in Dawn, February 27th, 2023KARACHI: An educationist, who is also a senior office-bearer of a private schools association, was gunned down in what police described as a ‘targeted attack’ in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Sunday evening. Victim Syed Khalid Raza, 55, was the deputy director of the Darul Arqam Schools, Karachi region. He was also the vice chairman of the Federation of Private Schools Pakistan. The police said that the incident took place at Gulistan-i-Jauhar Block-7…
report in Dawn, January 25th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A policeman was gunned down by unidentified assailants in the Mallah Khel area of Daraban tehsil of D.I. Khan, officials said on Tuesday. The head constable, Gul Baran, embraced martyrdom after the attackers sprayed him with bullets while he was on his way home from a mosque, said police spokesman Syed Yaqoob Bukhari. A heavy police contingent reached the site and cordoned off the area. A search…
Once again, the TTP has claimed an attack that illustrates how the group has become more audacious as it targeted the Sarband police station at the outskirts of Peshawar. A senior police officer along with two two constables embraced martyrdom in a midnight militant attack, which officials believe is the first of its kind where modern gadgets were used to target police. While the five attackers managed to flee in the dark—as has been witnessed…
Report in Dawn, December 18th, 2022NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Three persons were killed when a car caught fire following an attack by unidentified gunmen in the Khadri area of Mirali subdivision of North Waziristan district on Friday evening. Official sources said that the incident occurred when the three men were going to their village in the car. They said that flames engulfed the car as a result of the firing, badly burning bodies of the three men.…