report in Dawn, Nov 26th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police on Saturday claimed to have repulsed a militant attack on a checkpost in Bakhmal Ahmadzai area of the Lakki Marwat district. An official said that on Friday night, cops noticed movement of militants around the police post in the modern thermal cameras, and fired at them. “The assailants also hit the police post with light and heavy weapons,” claimed the official. He said that after hearing…
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by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, Oct 21, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Four militants were killed and one was apprehended in an intelligence-based operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Friday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. It said the security forces conducted the operation in the Semu Wanda area on the reported presence of militants. During the operation, an intense exchange of fire took place between the troops and the militants, in which four militants…
report in Dawn, June 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A policeman was martyred during an exchange of fire between police and unidentified assailants in Shahbazkhel area of Lakki Marwat district on Thursday night, an official said. He said a team of Shahbazkhel police post had set up a picket on the Bannu-DI Khan section of the Indus Highway after receiving information that six armed motorcyclists believed to be terrorists were seen roaming in the town. The official…
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…
By Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, March 31st, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), along with his three gunmen, was martyred in an attack targeting a police vehicle in Lakki Marwat in the early hours of Thursday. According to details, militants stormed the Saddar police station on the Bannu-Mianwali road near Chawkijand area when personnel inside the station called for reinforcements. DSP Iqbal Momand, who responded to the call, was on his way…
report in Dawn, January 27th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army and police launched a joint search operation against terrorists in a forest along the Kurram River near Lakki Marwat city on Thursday. Official sources told Dawn that a large contingent of military and police personnel was dispatched to the riverside area o a tip-off about the presence of terrorists. They said that those personnel went to the area in the wee hours of the day…
Report in Dawn, Dec 11th, 2022LAKKI MARWAT: An official of the Federal Investigation Agency was shot dead in Tajazai area of Lakki Marwat on Saturday. Officials said FIA’s assistant director Inamullah Khan, 48, and his relatives were present in an under-construction house in Mohallah Mir Walikhel when armed men came there and opened fire, killing the officer on the spot. The killers were identified as Sharifullah and Ali Bahadar. They said Inamullah’s relatives narrowly escaped…