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…
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report in The News, July 14, 2023A case was registered on Thursday against unknown terrorists affiliated with the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) following an attack on a Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) team in the Manghopir area of Karachi. Simultaneously, the CTD has escalated its operations against the TTP in Karachi and its surrounding suburbs. The case, pertaining to the attack on the CTD team by a motorcycle planted with a bomb near the Northern Bypass within…
Report in Dawn, April 30th, 2023KARACHI: The Special Investigation Unit (SIU) on Saturday claimed to have arrested two men, said to be linked with outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, for their involvement in demanding extortion from traders in the city. The SIU conducted a raid in the Metroville area near SITE and arrested Jehanzeb and Mohsin on a lead provided by two already held suspects —Mohammed Kamal Khan and Abdul Qadir. “Suspect Jehanzeb is a nephew of…
Report in The News, March 21, 2023Two eyewitnesses have identified a suspect during an identification parade before a court in a case pertaining to last month’s deadly attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO). The investigating officer produced Abdul Aziz alias Mohammad Ali, said to be affiliated with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), before the judicial magistrate (South) for his identification parade. The suspect was lined up along with dummies when two eyewitnesses rightly picked…
by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, March 15th, 2023KARACHI: Relatives of two persons, said to be involved in the Karachi Police Office (KPO) attack, staged a protest demonstration outside the Chhipa morgue in Abyssinia Lines on Tuesday against their killing in what they alleged a ‘fake’ encounter. On Monday, the Counter-Terrorism Department claimed to have killed two suspected militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in an alleged encounter on the outskirts of the metropolis. It claimed…
by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, March 14th, 2023KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have killed two ‘masterminds’ of last month’s deadly attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO), while two other suspects affiliated with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested after an ‘encounter’ on the outskirts of the metropolis. Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, flanked by senior officials of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), said that in order to eliminate the network behind the…
Report in Dawn, March 9th, 2023KARACHI: A Pakistan Muslim League-Functional (PML-F) worker was shot dead in Orangi Town late on Tuesday night, police said on Wednesday. They termed the killing an outcome of a scuffle over ‘Kabotar-bazi’ (pigeon keeping), but the political party alleged that it was a ‘targeted attack’ allegedly carried out by workers of a religio-political party. Pakistan Bazaar SHO Sohail Khaskheli said that 40-year-old Pervez Shaikh was gunned down in Gulshan-i-Zia near…
report in TOLOnews, Feb 27, 2023The consul of the Islamic Emirate in Karachi, Pakistan said that many Afghan refugees who are suffering from illnesses are in Karachi prison. The Afghan consul in Karachi, Abdul Jabar Takhari, said an Afghan refugee named Faiz Mohammad has died from illness in a Karachi prison. He called on Pakistan to release the Afghan refugees. “I told the Ministry of Interior of Pakistan that he (the individual who died) came…
Editorial in Dawn, February 22nd, 2023AS Pakistan faces a resurgent wave of terrorism, important questions need to be discussed about how the media covers acts of violence, especially pertaining to its live coverage of hostage/combat situations. At the moment, rolling coverage of acts of terrorism and their aftermath is the norm, as was witnessed during last week’s militant siege of the Karachi Police Office. In this regard, electronic media regulator Pemra on Monday issued a…
Editorial in Dawn, February 20th, 2023A RELEASE on bail in Karachi and an acquittal in Peshawar — each one significant in its own right, but coming within 24 hours of each other, they suggest something momentous may be afoot. Last Tuesday, South Waziristan MNA and Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement leader Ali Wazir won his freedom after more than two years’ imprisonment at the Karachi Central Jail on multiple charges of sedition. The next day, the parents…