Report in Dawn, August 25th, 2023PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have formed special weapons and tactics (SWAT) teams to fight militancy amid growing attacks. The initiative comes as the police department analysed the security situation and found out that two-thirds of the nationwide militant attacks took place in KP, according to a senior official. “Our [police] analysis reveals that around 70 per cent of militant attacks have been carried out against us. A total of…
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by Anwar Iqbal in Dawn, July 31st, 2023WASHINGTON: Mohsin Dawar, who heads the National Democratic Movement, has warned that militancy will spin out of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and engulf the entire Pakistan. In a conversation with Pakistani journalists and scholars near Washington, the Pashtun member of the National Assembly also opposed banning former prime minister Imran Khan and his supporters from the next elections as doing so was “against democratic norms”. The briefing was held hours…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 17, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon Alem and Olama (Islamic scholars) to instil humanitarian values among people and guide them against terrorism, militancy and drug abuse. “These are destroying families and the society as well,” she said while virtually inaugurating 50 more model mosques across the country from her official residence Gono Bhaban. She also requested all, particularly the children, not to get involved in militancy, saying,…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 22, 2022A court in Dhaka placed Ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami Md Shafiqur Rahman on a three-day fresh remand in a case lodged with capital’s Jatrabari Police Station for his alleged involvement in militancy, reports BSS. Dhaka metropolitan magistrate Syed Mostafa Reza Nur on Thursday passed the order as police produced the Jamaat chief before the court after the end of his seven-day remand in the case and pleaded for placing him…
By Yousaf Ali in The News, Dec 16, 2022PESHAWAR: Speakers at a seminar on Saturday urged all the stakeholders to play a sincere role to end the prolonged militancy and restore peace in the Pakhtun region. The seminar on “Talks Between the Government and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan” was arranged by the Institute of Regional Studies (IRS) here. The programme was presided over by provincial president of Jamaat-e-Islami Prof Mohammad Ibraheem Khan. Parliamentary leader of AWami…
by Mohsin Saleem ullah in The Nation, Nov 29, 2022The writer is a practicing lawyer and columnist.Militancy, insurgency, and instability continue to rise exponentially in the northern areas of Pakistan; Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) has, in the past few months, been witness to a greater number of violence and terrorist attacks than it has for years now. Previously classified as ‘isolated’ acts of terrorism, there is a now growing concern amongst army officials and locals alike…
by Tarek Mahmud in Dhaka Tribune, Mar 30, 2017 New Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (New JMB) has adopted a new strategy of setting up its hideouts in Hindu-populated neighbourhoods across Bangladesh aiming to deceive law enforcement. This trend was detected after several New JMB hideouts were found this month in Chittagong’s Sitakunda, Sylhet and Moulvibazar areas. According to police, New JMB members Kamal and his wife Arjina, who were arrested alive from Sitakunda, confessed that the…
By Mohiuddin Molla & Arifur Rahman Rabbi Comilla/Dhaka: Law enforcers on Wednesday discovered a den of terrorists at south Bagmara village in Kotbari of Comilla Sadar south upazila, while two other suspected militant hideouts in Borohat and Nasirpur areas of Moulvibazar Sadar upazila had already been cordoned off the same day. They have laid a siege to the suspected hideout, Superintendent of Police of Comilla Shah Abid Hossain told reporters. Preferring to be anonymous, an…