By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Aug 26, 2023Three hundred and eighty three Lankans had been killed up to 18 August this year in 373 violent attacks, Police Spokesman SSP Nihal Thalduwa said yesterday.The comparative figures for 2021 and 2022 were 525 to 550 brutal killings, he said. “People often focus on incidents related to the underworld, but incidents that occurred as a result of family disputes, land disputes, sudden bouts of anger and other…
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Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023KARACHI: Less than four days after the targeted killing of a local office-bearer of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Orangi Town, another activist of the party was shot dead in Ittehad Town in the small hours of Sunday morning, police and party officials said. They added that Shaukat Hammad, 35, was sitting outside his home in Abidabad when assailants on a motorbike killed him. South-DIG Irfan Ali Baloch told…
report in Dawn, August 4th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Villagers blocked the Indus Highway in Malang Adda area here on Wednesday during a protest against the killing of a prayer leader. The protest disrupted traffic between Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and other parts of the country. Police said prayer leader Maulana Fazalur Rehman was shot dead and his associate was injured in a gun attack on the Tajori Road near Malang Adda in the limits of Serai Gambila police…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, June 7, 2023Islamic State (ISIS) fighters claimed responsibility for Tuesday’s car bomb attack in north-eastern Badakhshan province, which killed the Taliban deputy governor and his driver. On Tuesday, ISIS wrote on Telegram, saying its fighters succeeded to detonate a bomb targeting Taliban deputy governor Mawlavi Nisar Ahmad Ahamdi, which also left six others injured, according to provincial officials. Mazudeen Ahmadi, the head of the Information and Culture Department of…
report in Prothom Alo, May 16, 2023Law enforcement agencies including the police do not have any specific information about the whereabouts of Major (retd) Abdul Jalil, the main accused in the Colonel Khandkar Nazmul Huda murder case. It has been confirmed that he is alive. It is learned that he used to live in an apartment in Siddheshwari of the capital a couple of years ago. Nobody has any information as to where he lives…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, April 14, 2023CPN (Maoist Centre) chair and Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal has said he has never taken responsibility for 5,000 insurgency-era killings. Furnishing a written clarification to the Supreme Court through his lawyer, Dahal has argued that the petitions demanding investigation against him for insurgency-era killings should be scrapped. Dahal claimed that his statement three years ago—that he was ready to take moral responsibility for 5,000 deaths—was…
Report in Dawn, March 26th, 2023KARACHI: Police on Saturday claimed to have arrested two suspected hitmen for their alleged involvement in the recent targeted killing of a religious scholar in Gulistan-i-Jauhar. They said that Sufi Abdul Qayyum was murdered on March 21 over a property dispute by hired assassins and there was no sectarian motive behind his killing. Speaking at a press conference, DIG-East Muquddas Haider said that the police and an intelligence agency, with…
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…
REPORT in The Nation, Mar 10, 2023ISLAMABAD – Jamaat ul Ahrar, a militant outfit, on Thursday accepted responsibility for the suicide bomb blast that killed Governor of Balkh province in Afghanistan Mulla Mohammad Dawood Muzammil , said a spokesman of Pakistan Tehreek Taliban. Seven persons, including the governor, were killed and nine others injured in the bomb blast. Mulla Dawood was the leading figure of Taliban. The Jamaat ul Ahrar had differences with him over…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, Mar 9, 2023Islamic State claimed responsibility for an attack on Thursday that killed the Taliban governor of Afghanistan’s Balkh province, the group’s Amaq agency reported. A blast tore through the Taliban governor’s office in Afghanistan’s northern Balkh province on Thursday, killing him and two others, officials said. Despite the Islamic Emirate rulers’ repeated claims that the Afghan conflict is concluded, the de facto government still faces significant security…
AFP report, February 17, 2023DHAKA: The United States will not lift sanctions on an elite Bangladesh police unit accused of extrajudicial killings until it is reformed, a top US envoy visiting the country has said. State Department Counselor Derek Chollet visited the South Asian country this week where he discussed security cooperation with government representatives in Dhaka. The diplomat is one of the most senior US officials to travel to Bangladesh since Washington sanctioned the…