Report in The News, December 27, 2023PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department has made further progress in investigation into the Dera Ismail Khan terror attack, it has been learnt. The CTD report said the main attacker Sifatullah had crossed the Torkham border into Afghanistan on March 3 and there was no record as to when he returned. His location in different parts of Pakistan a few days before the attack was also collected, it added. The CTD…
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by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday called for a thorough investigation into the release of terrorists from prisons during the PTI rule, regretting that such a decision was taken without taking the parliament and the nation into loop. Sitting beside caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti during a press conference, the PPP chairman expressed these views while talking to reporters after visiting ‘The Wall of…
report in The Nation, Dec 11, 2023QUETTA – The Station House Officer (SHO) of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Murad Jamot was martyred and two others injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan’s Khuzdar district on Sunday. Police said a magnetic bomb was exploded on Jamot’s vehicle when he was going to office near the Sultan Ibrahim Road in Khuzdar area. According to police sources, the nature of the explosion was a magnetic bomb and…
By Asim Yasin in The News, December 09, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Combined Investigation Team (CIT) of National Accountability Bureau (NAB) probing Toshakhana case has summoned Bushra Bibi on Monday (December 11). The CIT NAB is investigating a case pertaining to misuse of authority and misappropriation in sale of gifted state assets etc against Imran khan and others. The NAB stated that Bushra Bibi was summoned multiple times to produce the state gifts but she failed to…
by Omer Farooq Khan in The Times of India, Nov 20, 2023 at 07:53hrsISLAMABAD: Two clerics have been arrested in Pakistan’s Punjab province over the alleged sexual abuse and torture of students at Jamia Al-Mustafa, an unregistered madrasa in Chakwal. The arrest followed a victim’s disclosure to his father about the mistreatment, prompting other students to come forward. Local police were subsequently involved, and a preliminary investigation revealed instances of sexual assault and torture. Fifteen…
report in The Island, Oct 28, 2023The Catholic Church has appealed to the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to back its efforts to secure a transparent investigation into the 2019 Easter Sunday carnage. Archbishop of Colombo Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith has made representations in this regard to United Nations Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Nada al-Nashif during a recent meeting in Geneva. The Cardinal was accompanied by Shammil Perera, PC, to the meeting…
By Asim Yasin in The News, Sept 16, 2023ISLAMABAD: Around 2,000 NAB cases, including those at the reference, complaint verification, inquiry, and investigation level, are expected to be restored after the Supreme Court’s verdict in the NAB law amendments case on Friday. Cases against former president Asif Ali Zardari and six former prime ministers, including Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, Shaukat Aziz, Yusuf Raza Gilani, Raja Pervez Ashraf, Shahid Khaqan Abbasi and Shehbaz Sharif, are expected to…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Daily Morning, Sept 6, 2023While Opposition and Samagi Jana Balawegaya Leader Sajith Premadasa has called for an immediate international investigation into the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 21 April 2019, the Government has hinted at such an investigation into the same. The United Kingdom’s Channel Four News yesterday (5) aired a programme titled Sri Lanka’s Easter Bombings – Dispatches which made shocking revelations including the alleged involvement and complicity of…
report in Khaama Press online, Sept 5, 2023The World Organization Against Torture (OMCT) and 63 human rights groups have jointly appealed to the UN Human Rights Council, urging the establishment of an independent investigation mechanism for Afghanistan. The recent letter highlights a disturbing trend over the past two years, characterized by a surge in reprisal killings, torture, arbitrary detentions, and enforced disappearances. This distressing situation encompasses human rights defenders, journalists, and artists and extends to…
byTika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Sept 5, 2023Pushpa Kamal Dahal’s announcement last month to reopen investigation into the 17-year-old Gaur massacre has made the Janata Samajbadi Party (JSP), a key partner in the ruling coalition, deeply suspicious of the prime minister’s intentions. Although Dahal, soon afterwards, seemed to have backtracked on his plan and assured JSP chair Upendra Yadav that there would be no such investigation, the party remains jittery. A meeting of…