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Cop martyred as woman bomber blows herself up in Turbat:

Report in The News, June 25, 2023TURBAT: One policeman was martyred and a woman constable sustained injuries in a suicide blast in the Turbat district of Balochistan, Geo News reported quoting a senior official on Saturday. The deputy commissioner of Kech district said the woman suicide bomber blew herself up on Commissioner Road in the city. A vehicle of security forces was also damaged in the explosion, he added. Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo…

Iran-Afghanistan border clashes leave three dead

report in Dawn, May 28th, 2023 & Khaama Press, May 27, 2023KABUL: Three people were killed and many others suffered injuries after shooting broke out between Taliban fighters and Iranian border guards near a border post between Iran and Afghanistan, a Taliban spokesman said on Saturday. Both sides blamed the other for shooting first. It was not immediately clear what had provoked the incident but it comes amid tensions between the two countries over water…

Shipbreaking yards: Where safety takes a back seat

by Arun Bikash Dey in The Daily Star, Mar 10, 2023Another accident occurred at a shipbreaking yard in Chattogram’s Sitakunda upazila yesterday, claiming one life. But such accidents, and the injuries and deaths that accompany them, are nothing new there. In the past 18 years, 251 workers have been killed in accidents at shipbreaking yards. According to experts and rights activists, frequent accidents have been occurring at these sites due to the “sheer negligence” of…

Policeman, student among four killed in Bannu firing

report in Dawn, March 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Four people including a policeman were killed and six others sustained bullet injuries when unknown assailants opened fire on them near a private school on DI Khan Road in Bannu on Thursday. Police said the incident occurred in the limits of Saddar police station and added that school students were also among the dead and injured….. After the gruesome shooting incident, Bannu regional police chief Syed Ashfaq Anwar…

Terror makes macabre return to Peshawar

report in The Express Tribune, Jan 31st, 2023PESHAWAR: At least 61 people, many of them policemen, were martyred and more than 170 sustained injuries after a suicide bomber blew himself up at a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines during the afternoon prayers on Monday, police and medics said. Officials confirmed that it was a suicide attack and that the bomber was standing in the front row at the time of the explosion. Peshawar Capital City…

Bomb blast derails train in Bolan;15 injured

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Jan 21, 2023QUETTA: Four women among 15 people suffered injuries when a bomb blast derailed a Peshawar-bound train in Bolan district on Friday in an attack claimed by the banned Baloch Liberation Army. Officials said the explosi­­on that derailed eight coa­c­hes of Jaffar Express along with its locomotive and damaged a portion of the main railway track linking Quetta with the rest of the country was carried out by a…

Two cops, civilian martyred in Lakki Marwat

by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, January 7th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Two police personnel and a civilian embraced martyrdom and a traffic warden sustained bullet injuries in three militant attacks in Lakki Marwat district. According to the police, 40-year-old head constable Younas Khan and his 46-year-old friend Asmatullah lost their lives when armed motorcyclists attacked them near the Paharkhel Thall area. “As soon as Younas Khan and Asmatullah riding a motorcycle reached Manjiwala link road from…

Explosion Rattles Money Exchange Market in Eastern Afghanistan, Inflicting Injuries

by Saqalain Eqbal in Khaama Press online, Dec 6, 2022,An explosion took place near the money exchange market in Jalalabad, the provincial capital of the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar on Tuesday security officials said. According to the governor’s office in the province of Nangarhar, the explosion took place on Tuesday, December 6, at around 2:00 local time at the money exchange market, causing several injuries. Local sources in the province with knowledge of the…