By Afzal Nadeem Dogar in The News, Aug 7, 2023KARACHI: A terrorist wanted for terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was Monday arrested at the Karachi Airport after the Immigration Cell of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) foiled his plan to flee abroad, the agency told Geo News. According to the FIA Immigration Cell spokesperson, the accused, named Ehsan-ul-Haq, is a terrorist associated with Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and was trying to escape abroad. KP home department,…
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report in Daily Times, July 6, 2023The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has witnessed a surge in incidents of terrorism during the first four months of 2023, said a report of Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday. According to the report, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa reported 49 incidents of terrorism in the month of January 2023, while during the same period in 2022, the province witnessed 33 terror incidents. In February 2022, a total of 24 cases of terrorism…
Report in Dawn, June 1st, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: At least two suspected militants were killed and a soldier protecting a polio team embraced martyrdom in separate incidents of violence in multiple districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday. Local officials told Dawn that security personnel, including 25-year-old Sepoy Saqibur Rehman, was deployed on duty to protect polio workers during a vaccination campaign underway in the Spinwam tehsil of Mir Ali, North Waziristan. A statement issued by the…
By Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 13th, 2023PESHAWAR: Three militants were shot dead and six others arrested during operations by security forces and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police on Wednesday, officials said. An intense exchange of fire took place between security forces and militants during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Loesum area of Bajaur, where, according to local officials, three militants were gunned down. A statement later issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR),…
by Anil Giri in The Kathmandu Post, Mar 10, 2023 Ram Chandra Paudel is stepping into Sheetal Niwas hot on the heels of Bidya Devi Bhandari, who got into a number of controversies for being overly supportive of prime minister KP Sharma Oli while blocking some crucial laws forwarded during the premiership of Sher Bahadur Deuba. Political leaders and analysts say Bhandari did not heed public concern, for instance when she was criticised for blocking…