by Saleem Shahid Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023QUETTA: Five suspected terrorists of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an operation conducted by the Balochistan police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday, according to officials. The operation was planned on the intelligence provided by TTP militant Naseebullah, who was arrested some time back, during the investigation. He revealed the presence of militants in the Aghberg area, a locality on the outskirts of the…
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report in Dawn, Sept 3rd, 2023KHYBER: Three militants were killed in an encounter with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) sleuths in the mountainous region of Shagai in Jamrud tehsil here on Saturday. A press release issued by the CTD said that a raiding party along with two activists of the proscribed Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), who had been under the department’s custody for some time, was on way to some hidden caves near the old Torkham road in…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, September 3rd, 2023QUETTA: The counterterrorism department (CTD) said it had killed eight members of the banned TTP and IS outfits in two intelligence-based operations conducted in Balochistan’s Quetta and Washuk districts on Saturday. A CTD spokesperson said the first operation was conducted in a mountainous area near Kurragi village of Basima tehsil in Washuk, a district bordering Iran. As soon as counterterrorism officials cordoned off the area and launched the…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, August 31st, 2023QUETTA: A top commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and three other militants of the group were killed in an exchange of fire with CTD officials during an operation in the Surkhab Afghan refugee camp area of Pishin. The TTP commander was identified as Shakar Din alias Omer Khalid. Three other TTP militants were identified as Ahmedullah, Aminullah and Abdul Fatha, all Afghans. A spokesman for the…
by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, August 26th, 2023KHUZDAR: Four people were killed in two separate attacks in Khuzdar and Kalat on Friday. A man and his two wives were gunned down by armed men who barged into a house in the Killi Rodini area of Kalat, according to the police. The attackers opened indiscriminate fire resulting in the killings of Muhammad Hayat and his two wives on the spot. One person was injured in…
report in Dawn, August 26th, 2023KHYBER: An Ali Masjid blast facilitator was killed on Friday during an encounter between suspected militants and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) near Jamrud. A CTD official in Jamrud, who wished to remain anonymous, told Dawn that Abuzar Afridi, who was already in custody, had confessed to have concealed arms and ammunition at a location. He was being taken to the location by a CTD team which was attacked by suspected…
report in Khaama Press, Aug 25, 2023On Thursday, the Taliban officially confirmed the death of Hoora Sadat, an Afghan YouTuber, who was killed in Kabul earlier this week. Khalid Zadran, a spokesperson for the Taliban, said on a social media platform X that the incident occurred three days ago in the Kabul district. Zadran revealed that authorities have apprehended two individuals, one woman, in connection with the incident. The Taliban official also added that the…
report in Khaama Press online, August 22, 2023A U.N. report released Tuesday reveals that over 200 extrajudicial killings of former Afghan government officials and security forces have occurred since the Taliban’s takeover two years ago. According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, the group most targeted by the Taliban have been individuals who were previously part of the army, police, and intelligence forces. Between August 15, 2021 (when the Taliban took control), and…
By Mitra Majeedy in ToloNews, Aug 20, 2023 at 9:07 PMThe OCHA humanitarian coordinator for Afghanistan, claimed that 38 workers were killed during the last two years. Daniel Endres said that most of them were polio vaccinators and deminers in Afghanistan. “We salute their courage and celebrate their dedication to serving humanity we also take a moment to pause to recognize those humanitarian workers who have lost their lives and were injured, abducted, arrested or…
by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 15, 2023The ruling coalition partners have concluded that there is no need to further investigate the Gaur Massacre, where as many as 27 members of the then CPN (Maoist) were brutally killed and 115 were injured. A meeting of the leaders of the ruling parties convened by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday drew the conclusion a week after the government signed an agreement with…
by Iftikhar Shirazi in Dawn, August 14, 2023Two terrorists were killed by security forces after they attacked a military convoy in Balochistan’s Gwadar on Sunday morning, according to the army’s media affairs wing. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement that the terrorists carried out the attack at 10am, using small arms and hand grenades. “However, due to the efficient and swift response, two terrorists were sent to hell with no harm to…