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CTD arrests nine suspects of banned outfits

Report in Dawn, October 19th, 2023LAHORE: Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Wednesday claimed to have arrested nine members of banned out-fits during intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different areas of the province. According to a CTD spokesman, 157 IBOs were conducted in different areas of the province and 158 suspects were detained and interrogated. He said that during the IBOs, nine suspects belonging to different banned outfits, including self-styled militant Islamic State (Daesh), Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan…

Swiss NGO says 18 staff members detained in Afghanistan

AFP report, Sep 16, 2023 at 12.13 PM ISTKABUL: Afghanistan’s Taliban authorities have detained 18 staff members of a Swiss-registered NGO, including a foreigner, the group said Saturday. The International Assistance Mission (IAM) said the staffers were picked up from its office in Ghor province, central Afghanistan, and taken to the capital Kabul. “At this time, we have no information about the nature of allegations against our staff and are, therefore, unable to comment or…

Coalition partners drop Gaur massacre probe plan to avoid antagonising Upendra Yadav

by Tika R Pradhan in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 15, 2023The ruling coalition partners have concluded that there is no need to further investigate the Gaur Massacre, where as many as 27 members of the then CPN (Maoist) were brutally killed and 115 were injured. A meeting of the leaders of the ruling parties convened by Prime Minister Pushpa Kamal Dahal on Monday drew the conclusion a week after the government signed an agreement with…

Party politics: SJB to probe MPs supporting the Govt.

by Sahan Tennekoon in The Morning online, July 9, 2023The main Opposition Party Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) is to commence an internal inquiry to look into the allegations made by several backbenchers that some of their members in parliament are secretly supporting the agenda of the Government, The Daily Morning learnt. The move comes following a statement by SJB MP Hirunika Premachandra recently. Premachandra recently charged that some of the SJB Parliamentarians are currently supporting…