Iftikhar Shirazi in Dawn, June 4, 2023 Two soldiers were martyred and as many terrorists killed during an exchange of fire in the Janikhel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Saturday, according to a statement issued by the military’s media affairs wing. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said security personnel “effectively engaged the terrorists’ location” during the gun battle, as a result of which “two terrorists were sent to hell”. Meanwhile, the ISPR added,…
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Report in Dawn, May 27, 2023KHYBER: Two policemen lost their lives in a ‘mysterious’ grenade blast inside the police training centre in Shah Kas area of Jamrud tehsil on Thursday night. However, Khyber district police officer Salim Abbas Kulachi insisted a hand grenade went off after falling from the hands of a policeman when DSP Nawaz Khan was inspecting the security bunkers of the centre at midnight. He said two policemen, Shah Mehmood and Nur…
Report in Dawn, May 1st, 2023KHYBER: Two soldiers were injured when a landmine planted on the main Bara-Tirah Road exploded during routine bomb detection exercise on Sunday morning, sources in the region said. They said that an eight-member bomb disposal squad was conducting an explosive detection exercise in Ghaibi Neeka locality when they spotted an improvised explosive device planted on the road in Mammal Pati area. They said that the BD squad immediately took cover…
Report in The News, April 27, 2023RAWALPINDI: Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and two terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire in the Khyber district Tuesday. According to the ISPR, a fire exchange took place between the troops and terrorists in the general area of Tirah, Khyber District, on Tuesday. Troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location. Consequently, two terrorists were killed and four terrorists were injured. Weapons and ammunition were also…
report in The News, April 13, 2023PESHAWAR: The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested seven terrorists involved in a suicide attack on Takhta Baig Checkpost in Khyber a few weeks back. Three people including two policemen were martyred in the attack. A CTD official said four of those involved in the attack were arrested in one action while three were arrested in another raid.It was claimed that one of the terrorists involved has been…
by Irfan Mughal | Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, March 14th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN / LAKKI MARWAT: Two policemen embraced martyrdom and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat while a militant was shot dead in a security forces operation in Dera Ismail Khan district on Monday. A police van came under attack in the Kot-Azam area of Tank district while it…
report in The Nation online, Feb 14, 2023 at 9:38 AMPolice repulsed an armed attack of the terrorists on a police picket in Kashu Pull, Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). According to details, terrorists attacked the Kashu Pul police picket in the limits of PS Domel in Bannu and opened fire at the police personnel. Police returned the fire and after the exchange of fire, the terrorist escape from the scene. No casualty was reported in…
report in The Express Tribune, Feb 3, 2023.Security forces on Friday killed two terrorists in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) North Waziristan district, the military said in a statement. According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the fire exchange took place between the security forces and terrorists in the general area of Esham. During the intense exchange of fire, it added, two terrorists were killed and weapons and ammunition were also recovered from them. The military’s media wing…
Report in Dawn, Jnuary 24th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT/KHYBER: A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred in a bomb blast in Bannu and a suspected militant was killed in a joint operation in Khyber tribal district on Monday. A local official told Dawn that an improvised explosive device (IED) was planted by militants in the Janikhel area of Bannu district and it exploded when it was being defused by the bomb disposal unit. “The [explosive] device went off…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, January 23th, 2023PESHAWAR: A police patrolling party narrowly escaped an IED (improvised explosive device) attack in the Gula Khan Zangal area, southwest of the provincial capital bordering Khyber district, on Sunday. The bomb, weighing around one kilogram, was planted on a roadside within the jurisdiction of Badhber Police Station and it went off seconds after the police van passed through the site, police said, adding the police party remained unhurt.…