By Muhammad Irfan Mughal in Dawn, November 8th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Amid a renewed wave of assaults targeting security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa — particularly D.I. Khan — and Balochistan, two police personnel were martyred and three others sustained injuries when unidentified armed men attacked the camp office of a private oil and gas company in the early hours of Tuesday. The incident took place in Darazinda area and the attackers targeted the policemen on…
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by Atika Rehman in Dawn, Oct 4th, 2023LONDON: As speculations build about the possibility of him forming a new party, PML-N leader Shahid Khaqan Abbasi visited party supremo Nawaz Sharif at Stanhope House on Tuesday, spending more than two hours in a one-on-one meeting. Mr Abbasi arrived in London on Monday and is scheduled to leave today (Wednesday). Sources told Dawn the two had a cordial meeting. As reports of Mr Abbasi becoming disillusioned with…
report in Dawn, October 1st, 2023PESHAWAR: A Pakistan Army soldier embraced martyrdom in Parachinar while an alleged militant commander was gunned down in Mardan in two separate incidents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the small hours of Friday. In a statement, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said an encounter took place between security forces and alleged militants in Parachinar, Kurram, in which Lance Naik Ghairat Khan, 33, embraced martyrdom. In a separate incident, an alleged militant…
By Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, March 31st, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), along with his three gunmen, was martyred in an attack targeting a police vehicle in Lakki Marwat in the early hours of Thursday. According to details, militants stormed the Saddar police station on the Bannu-Mianwali road near Chawkijand area when personnel inside the station called for reinforcements. DSP Iqbal Momand, who responded to the call, was on his way…
report in Pr thom Alo, Jan 19, 2023Hours after the gunfight of two Myanmar armed groups, some houses of Rohingya refugee camps on Ghumdhum-Tumbru border in Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari were set on fire. As of writing this report around 8:00pm on Wednesday, the fire was tearing through the makeshift shelters. Refugees are fleeing the scene to escape fire: some have taken shelter at Ghumdhum high school while some entered inside Myanmar, crossing the border. However, the…