by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Nov 19th, 2023QUETTA: Five people, including three Levies personnel, were injured in two armed attacks in Chagai and Pishin districts of Balochistan on Saturday. Three Levies personnel sustained injuries in an attack by unidentified gunmen at a check post on the Quetta-Taftan highway in Chagai. Officials said a group of armed men raided a pickup in the Gazan area near Dalbandin and indiscriminately fired at the Levies personnel on duty…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Sept 25th, 2023QUETTA: An official was targeted in a gun attack by armed motorcyclists while he was returning home from a Levies Force post in Qila Abdullah, a bordering district with Afghanistan, on Sunday evening. The shooters, equipped with automatic weapons, targeted Levies official Abdul Bari in Mazai Adha area of Qila Abdullah. The personnel deployed at the post immediate returned fire, forcing the motorcyclists to speed away, officials said…..…
by Abdul Wahid Shahwani Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023KHUZDAR: A Levies official was gunned down by unidentified men in Mastung on Thursday. According to Levies officials, armed men riding motorcycles targeted the man on the city’s bus stand. He died on the spot. Two other people who were passing by were injured….. The deceased was identified as Abdul Zahir. The attack has been classified as targeted killing and the police have initiated an investigation.…
by Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, September 4th, 2023KHUZDAR: A member of Levies Force and two other people were shot dead in two different firing incidents in Mastung and Kalat districts on Sunday. Officials said that some unknown assailants barged into the house of a Levies official in the Johan area of Mangochar town of Kalat district and opened fire, killing him on the spot and injuring his wife. Members of the Levies Force rushed…
report in Dawn, August 30th, 2023MANSEHRA: The chief of Torghar Levies escaped unhurt from a bomb blast in Judbah Mera area of the district on Tuesday morning. An improvised explosive device went off outside the house of Gulfaraz when his vehicle drove past it, according to district police officer Bilal Ahmad. He told reporters that the explosion left a crater on the road but didn’t hurt anyone. The DPO said the terror attack targeted the…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, July 25th, 2023QUETTA: Two members of Levies force were gunned down by unknown armed men in two different incidents at Chaman, a town near the border with Afghanistan, on Monday. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for one of the shootings. In the first incident, assailants riding motorcycles shot at Rehmatullah while he was on his way home after work. He died instantly. Police rushed to the scene and shifted…
report in The News, Feb 22, 2023QUETTA: Two personnel of the Levies were martyred in an attack on a checkpoint in the Mastung district of Balochistan on Tuesday. Levies officials said that unknown armed men opened fire on the Levies’ checkpost in the Babri area of Mastung, leaving the two personnel martyred on the spot. The attackers escaped. Soon after the incident, personnel from law enforcement agencies reached the spot and shifted the bodies to…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, February 10th, 2023QUETTA: A Levies Force official was martyred and three others injured when shooters ambushed a convoy escorting a returning officer in Dera Bugti district on Thursday. Levies officials said the convoy came under attack on its way to Dera Bugti from the Phelawagh area of Pir Koh after polling in the third phase of the local government elections. When the convoy reached near Lop area, unidentified shooters hiding…