Report in Pakistan Today, May 19, 2023RAWALPINDI: A soldier was martyred in a skirmish with terrorists in the Loesam area of Bajaur district, said the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Thursday. The military’s media wing added that during the exchange of fire, one terrorist was also killed. The martyred sepoy was identified by the military as Shafiq ur Rehman, age 23 from DI Khan. “Sanitization of the area is being carried out to eliminate any…
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Report in Dawn, May 1st, 2023PESHAWAR: A constable of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police’s elite force was martyred when he came under attack while going home in Tarnab area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Sunday evening, officials said. The city police station officials said that Mohammad Ibrar Khan, a resident of Meher Gul village of Tarnab, was deployed at the office of an intelligence agency. They said that he came under attack when…
By Ghulam Mursalin Marwat | Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 29th, 2023PESHAWAR/LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army confirmed on Friday that militants targeted security forces in three overnight attacks in the Lakki Marwat district, triggering shoot-outs in which three soldiers were martyred and seven militants were killed. In the first attack, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up near a security forces camp, located in the Government Postgraduate College, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)…
By Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, April 28th, 2023KHUZDAR: A senior police official of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Khuzdar was martyred in a bomb attack on Thursday. According to the police, a roadside bomb went off when Inspector Sharbat Khan’s vehicle reached Khuzdar Medical College on the Quetta-Karachi Highway while he was on his way to the police station. Mr Khan died on the spot as the explosion left his vehicle completely…
Report in The News, April 27, 2023RAWALPINDI: Two soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and two terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire in the Khyber district Tuesday. According to the ISPR, a fire exchange took place between the troops and terrorists in the general area of Tirah, Khyber District, on Tuesday. Troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location. Consequently, two terrorists were killed and four terrorists were injured. Weapons and ammunition were also…
Report in The News, April 25, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A retired intelligence officer and a police official were martyred in separate attacks in Lakki City, official sources said on Monday. They said that two armed men forced their entry into the hujra (male guest house) of Col (Retd) Muqarrab Khan Marwat in Khoidadkhel. One of the accused aimed his gun at the guests and relatives of the victim warning them not to move while the other…
Report in Dawn, April 10th, 2023PESHAWAR: A militant was killed and a sepoy martyred in separate clashes in North and South Waziristan, the military’s media wing said on Sunday. According to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), an exchange of fire took place between security forces and militants in the Razmak of North Waziristan district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The security forces effectively engaged the militants and gunned down one of them. Weapons…
By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, April 12th, 2023QUETTA: Four policemen were martyred after an intense gun battle with terrorists in the Killi Spin area of Kuchlak on Tuesday. A heavy contingent of the police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD), along with the Frontier Corps, had cordoned off a suspected compound on the tip about the presence of militants involved in Sunday’s attack on a police convoy. The alleged militants resorted to indiscriminate firing using automatic weapons,…
Report in The News, April 11, 2023QUETTA: In the latest terror incident, four people – including two policemen – were martyred Monday after an explosion near a police vehicle in the city’s Shahrah-e-Iqbal area. Officials told Geo News that at least 15 people were also injured in the blast which left several cars and motorcycles in the vicinity damaged. The bodies have been shifted to the Civil Hospital, hospital administration said. Those killed in the…
by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, April 9th, 2023KHYBER: Two soldiers lost their lives and four others were injured when their vehicle was targeted by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Bara tehsil of Khyber tribal district on Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. Local sources said the security forces’ vehicle was passing through Miangano Kalay Khearr (dry stream) in the Malakdin Khel locality in the afternoon when it was hit by…
Report in Dawn, April 8th, 2023SWABI/NORTH WAZIRISTAN: An assistant sub-inspector of police embraced martyrdom and two other personnel suffered critical injuries when militants attacked the vehicle they travelled in with a hand grenade in Swabi district on Friday evening. Also in the day, a police constable was killed in an act of ‘target killing’ in North Waziristan tribal district. The Swabi attack was reported in the main Yar Hussain Bazaar a few minutes before Iftar…