By Qazi Fazlullah in The News, Jan 20, 2023In a terrorist attack on a police check-post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber Agency Thursday at least three policemen were martyred. Terrorists opened fire on the check-post in Tekhta Beg and used explosive material in the attack, after which the police station caught fire, according to the local police. The exchange of fire between the police force and terrorists still continues. Immediately after the attack, the traffic on…
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By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, January 07, 2023PESHAWAR: Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan regions in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have come under more attacks compared to other divisions of the province after the law and order situation worsened over the last several months. The prime target of the attacks remained police and security forces. North and South Waziristan, Bannu, Lakki Marwat, Dera Ismail Khan districts of the DIK and Bannu division have witnessed…
by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, January 4th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Investigators in the terrorism case in Islamabad have identified the suicide bomber and are searching for two suspects who facilitated him in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rawalpindi to reach the capital and detonate an explosive device on December 23. Sources close to the investigators told Dawn that there were two facilitators of the suicide bomber: one brought him to Islamabad on December 23 and the other, who was…
by Muhammad Amir Rana in Dawn, December 21st, 2022“WHAT can Khyber Pakhtunkhwa learn from Punjab to effectively counter the threat of terrorism?” A Peshawar University student asked this question during a recently-held seminar in the presence of lawmakers, academia, and security experts. At the time, none of the speakers took the question as seriously as they should have, given the worsening security situation in KP. In the past year alone, terrorists belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban…