By Habib Rahman Qooyash in ToloNews, Sept 22, 2023 at 8:52 PMDrivers and passengers voiced their frustration over the continued blockage of Kabul-Jalalabad highway, and called on the interim government officials to reopen the highway as soon as possible. The Kabul-Jalalabad highway was blocked on Sunday after major rockslides blocked the highway in the Pul-e-Charkhi area of Kabul. The Ministry of Defense earlier announced on social media that the engineering teams of the ministry have…
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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, 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…
by Ali Jan Mangi in Dawn, February 5th, 2023DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two security personnel were injured in a road-side blast at the Quetta-Sibi national highway in Bolan district, on Saturday. Officials said personnel of Frontier Corps were escorting the vehicle of an officer when the blast took place near Sirajabad. The injured security personnel were moved to district hospital Dhadar. Security forces arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. A search operation has…
report in The Daily Styar, Jan 11, 2023At least 20 vehicles were vandalised and six buses set on fire by a mob on Dhaka-Mymensingh highway in Gachha area of Gazipur city last evening following a rumour of road crash deaths. Vehicular movement on both lanes of the highway remained closed for about two hours as a result of the attack, according to police. Alamgir Hossain, the deputy commissioner (traffic) of Gazipur Metropolitan Police, said police…
Report in Dawn, January 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police claimed to have killed two terrorists in a fierce gun battle in Landi Jalandhar area of Bannu district along the Indus Highway on Sunday night. A police official told Dawn that the two terrorists were wanted for killing Domel police station’s head constable Pasham Khan and injuring constable Shah Wali Khan in an armed attack on Saturday. He said district police officer Dr Mohammad Iqbal formed…
by Ahmad Nabi in the Nation, Dec 11, 2022KHYBER – The tribesmen of Landi Kotal blocked the pak-afghan highway in protest over a truck driver’s abduction by unidentified robbers in Kashmore, Sindh, and demanded that the provincial government should take immediate action to secure the truck driver’s safe release. Along with local political figures, members of public and transporters blocked the sultan-Khel Landi Kotal road in the Takia area with stones and other obstructions. Member…