report in The Daily Star, Mar 13, 2023Rab said its members have arrested nine members of the newly surfaced militant group Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya from Bandarban yesterday. The outfit’s training commander Didar Hossain alias Chompai was among the arrestees, Khandaker Al Moin, Rab’s legal and media wing director, said today. They were arrested along with arms and ammunition during a drive at the district’s Tonkaborti area, he said, adding that Rab would hold…
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By Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Mar 5, 2023ISLAMABAD – The upward trajectory of anti-state violence continued in February of this year as 32 percent more militant attacks were recorded in the month compared with January 2023. Despite an increase in militant attacks during the last month, the resultant deaths have declined compared with January. Militants carried out 58 terrorist attacks during the past month in which 62 people were killed including 27 civilians, 18…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, Mar 2, 2023ISLAMABAD: Militant attacks witnessed a surge in the month of February this year, but the resultant deaths were down as compared to January. An attack by the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Karachi Police Headquarters was the most high-profile attack in the month of February. According to the statistics released by Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), militants carried out 58 attacks during the past month…
AFP report in Dawn, March 1st, 2023KABUL: Taliban forces claimed to have killed a top commander of the Islamic State-Khorasan (IS-K) militant group, who allegedly planned attacks against diplomatic missions in Afghanistan’s capital, a government official said. Violence in Afghanistan dramatically dipped after the Taliban seized power in August 2021. But in the past year, security has worsened, with a spate of mass casualty attacks claimed by Islamic State’s regional chapter, IS-K. Taliban forces killed…
Report in Dawn, February 23, 2023PESHAWAR: The counter-terrorism department killed a militant and arrested five others in an operation in Tela Band area, some 20 kilometres south of the provincial capital, early on Wednesday. A senior police official told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the operation was carried out after receiving intelligence about the presence of militants in the area. He said the militants both killed and arrested were Afghan nationals and worked for…
report in Dawn, February 14th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN/BAJAUR: Two, including an alleged militant, were killed and nine injured in three separate attacks in North Waziristan and Bajaur district on Monday. The alleged militant was killed and his three accomplices were taken into custody following an exchange of fire with security forces in the Sirkot area of Miramshah tehsil, officials have said. A security team was defusing a bomb after receiving information when militants opened fire. Local…
Report in The Daily Star, Jan 23, 2023 at 09:27 AMRapid Action Battalion said they arrested a top leader of newly surfaced militant group Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya and one of his associates following a gunfight in Ukhia upazila of Cox’s Bazar today. The arrestees are Ranbir, a shura member and head of the military wing of the militant outfit and his associate, “bomb expert” Bashar, from the area adjacent to Kutupalong Rohingya camp,…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 22, 2023Rapid Action Battalion arrested a convicted member of banned militant outfit Hizb-ut Tahrir from Dhaka’s Jatrabari area yesterday. The arrestee, Tauhidur Rahman Tauhid, 32, was sentenced to two years’ rigorous imprisonment by an Anti-Terrorism Tribunal in a case filed with Hazaribagh Police Station. He is an active member of the “Dawah” and finance department of the militant outfit, said Md Fazlul Haque, media officer of Rab-2. Acting on…
by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, January 7th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Two police personnel and a civilian embraced martyrdom and a traffic warden sustained bullet injuries in three militant attacks in Lakki Marwat district. According to the police, 40-year-old head constable Younas Khan and his 46-year-old friend Asmatullah lost their lives when armed motorcyclists attacked them near the Paharkhel Thall area. “As soon as Younas Khan and Asmatullah riding a motorcycle reached Manjiwala link road from…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Jan 1, 2023ISLAMABAD – The year 2022 has seen the highest number of militant attacks in Pakistan during the last five years as the terror incidents increased by 28 percent compared to 2021. The country has also witnessed four times more suicide attacks in 2022 than in 2021. In 2022, Pakistan faced at least 15 suicide bombings while in 2021; only four suicide attacks were reported. This is the…
by Muhammad Amir Rana in Dawn, December 21st, 2022“WHAT can Khyber Pakhtunkhwa learn from Punjab to effectively counter the threat of terrorism?” A Peshawar University student asked this question during a recently-held seminar in the presence of lawmakers, academia, and security experts. At the time, none of the speakers took the question as seriously as they should have, given the worsening security situation in KP. In the past year alone, terrorists belonging to the Tehreek-i-Taliban…