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Pashteen sent on 7-day physical remand

By Khalid Iqbal in The News, Dec 08, 2023ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) has sent Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) leader Manzoor Pashteen on a seven-day physical remand. The counsel of the PTM leader protested and said Pashteen had the right to organise rallies, pointing out that his car had been fired upon in Balochistan and he was ‘kidnapped’ three days before being presented in the court. He contended that such circumstances did not warrant a…

Jirga being formed for footballers’ release

report in Dawn, Sept 14th, 2023QUETTA: Security forces have failed to trace the whereabouts of young players, despite passage of one week since the launch of an operation to find the kidnapped footballers in the Kachhi canal area of Sui tehsil. While officials in Dera Bugti said search operation was still on amid hopes that young football players would be recovered, the local administration decided to constitute a tribal jirga comprising elders of different Bugti…

Engineer among two kidnapped in Tirah

by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, August 25th, 2023KHYBER: Suspect militants abducted two employees of a private consultant firm from their site office in Tirah valley during the night between Wednesday and Thursday. Police in the valley said they received a written complaint from the contractor of Tirah Sports ground project that some armed men under the command of one Najeed entered the rented living quarters of Eng Aamir Suhail in the Peer Mela locality of…

Two policemen kidnapped in attack on check-post:

Report in Dawn, May 1st, 2023SUKKUR: Gangsters believed to be members of the notorious Mitho Shah gang abducted two policemen along with their official weapons after storming the Khalid Nawaz Jakhrani check-post in the Jagir area within the jurisdiction of the Mauladad police station in Jacobabad district late on Saturday night. Jacobabad SSP Dr Sumair Noor Channa denied reports of the abduction but later a video uploaded on social media by Mitho Shah confirmed the…