Report in Dawn, Dec 3rd, 2023PESHAWAR: The security forces arrested a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan during an operation carried out in Mardan district on Saturday, official sources said. They said that during interrogation, the banned outfit’s member revealed about as huge cache of arms kept in the Khyber tribal district. They added that later the weapons were recovered from area. “The banned outfit’s militants had planned to carry out terror activities…
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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…
Bureau Report in Dawn, October 9th, 2023PESHAWAR: A militant was killed in an exchange of fire between the security forces and terrorists in North Waziristan tribal district on Sunday. A statement issued by Inter-Services Public Relation (ISPR), the military’s media wing, said the exchange of fire took place in Razmak area. Azeemullah, also known as Ghazi, was killed in an intense exchange of fire, the statement said, adding weapons and ammunition were also recovered from…
By Umar Cheema in The News, Sept 6, 2023ISLAMABAD: A militant having blood on his hands of more than 40 members of the Hazara community, including the Mach attack he masterminded killing a dozen coal miners of the same ethnicity, has finally been apprehended by a civilian agency, the Intelligence Bureau, when he entered Pakistan from Afghanistan. Son of a baildar, a low-rank government employee, Abdul Bari, had been on the watchlist of all security…
report in The News,July 10, 2023HANGU: The police claimed to have arrested four alleged terrorists, including a notorious commander, during a raid on a hideout of a proscribed militant organization in the mountainous areas of the district on Sunday. District Police Officer Hangu Asif Bahadur Khan said that terrorists were allegedly involved in various crimes of heinous nature, including kidnapping for ransom, target-killing and others. He said that the police had also seized a significant…
by Nazrul Islam in Prothom Alo, July 8, 2023Ikramul Haque alias Milan, who was arrested on charges of militancy, was the second-highest leader of Al Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), claimed Bangladesh police. The law enforcers claim that Ikramul was involved with militant activities in India. He had the passport of India and his wife had the Aadhaar Card of that country. An informed source said Ikramul was arrested on a tip-off that he…
Report in The News, April 20, 2023The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Sindh police claimed a major success after arresting a suspected militant of a banned militant organisation, Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army, in a recent raid in Karachi. The CTD spokesperson said the operation was carried out with the assistance of a federal intelligence agency. The suspect, identified as Obaidullah, was apprehended in Gulshan-e-Hadeed. A pistol with a magazine was seized from his possession. The initial…
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…
report in The News,March 15, 2023Karachi: Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested a militant belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a raid in the Soldier Bazaar area on Tuesday. CTD Investigation incharge Ali Raza said police carried out an intelligence-based raid in Soldier Bazaar and arrested Israr of the TTP’s Tariq Geedar group, adding that the alleged terrorist was an important associate of a commander of the group. The CTD…
Report in Dawn, March 13th, 2023PESHAWAR: Keeping in view the upsurge in militant attacks on law enforcement agencies, the authorities have provided armoured personnel carriers (APC) to police of Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu regions. The APCs, handed over to police of Dera Ismail Khan and Bannu divisions in the provincial capital on Sunday, would help the law-enforcers to effectively counter militant attacks, said a statement. “The latest weaponry, used by the US and its…