Report in Dawn, December 30th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Suspected militants torched a government higher secondary school for girls in Kotka Mambati Barakzai area of Bannu on Thursday night. A police official said the school was located in Miryan tehsil. He added the attackers set the science lab and equipment dumped there on fire. The official said the laboratory and staffroom along with furniture and other objects were destroyed. He added the militants also took away the…
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By Amjad Safi in The News, December 14, 2023PESHAWAR: Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Wednesday demanded an inquiry into the negotiations with militants and bringing them back to the country without taking parliament and people into confidence. Addressing the members of Peshawar High Court Bar Association (PHCBA) here, Bilawal said such elements should be exposed before the nation and held accountable for betraying the martyrs. PPP provincial president Syed Mohammad Shah Bacha,…
by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, December 9th, 2023KHYBER: Security forces carried out heavy bombardments on the hideouts of suspected terrorists in Tirah Valley of Khyber district on Friday, according to local sources. Separately, five terrorists were killed during an intelligence-based operation in Tank district. There was no official statement from the Inter-Services Public Relations, the military’s media affairs department, on the operation in the valley. However, sources told Dawn that the alleged hideouts were pounded…
Bureau Report in Dawn, November 9th, 2023PESHAWAR: Two militants were gunned down by members of security forces in an intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out in Ursoon area, a locality situated near Pak-Afghan border in Chitral district, on Wednesday. A statement issued by Inter -Services Public Relations (ISPR), the military’s media wing, said the security forces conducted an IBO in Ursoon area where an intense exchange of fire took place between security forces and militants. Two…
Report in Dawn, November 9th, 2023KOHAT: The police repulsed a rocket and gun attack on Khurram Muhammadzai police station in Karak district’s Banda Daud Shah tehsil on Tuesday night, forcing militants to flee, officials said on Wednesday. However, they said a constable was injured when a splinter from a wall struck him. Karak district police officer Sajjad Ahmed Khan and DSP Nazir Hussain said that the militants attacked the police station from its backside. Following…
Report in Dawn, October 10th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A policeman was martyred and another sustained injuries when militants attacked the Hathala police station here on Sunday night. A police official said a group of militants attacked the police station located in the suburbs of Dera with rockets and grenades, attempting to break the central gate. However, the police personnel foiled their attempt. The official said that besides hand grenades, five rockets were also fired at…
by Mateen Haider in The Nation, Sept 19, 2023ISLAMABAD – After Pakistan’s pressure to take action against TTP militants involved in the attack on Pakistani border posts in Chitral, Afghan Taliban authorities have ordered operation against TTP hideouts in Kunar. As many as 70 militants affiliated with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), among them 15 who sustained injuries in exchange of fire, have been arrested during the ongoing operation. Last week Pakistan’s charge d’affaires had met…
Report in Dawn, Sept 15th, 2023QUETTA: Unknown militants blew up a gas well in the Pirkoh gas field area of Dera Bugti on Thursday, suspending supply to various localities of the district. Officials said unknown militants planted explosives at the well No 41, which went off, causing fire in the well and suspending supply to a vast area. Security forces rushed to the site after the explosion and brought the fire under control. “The gas…
by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 19, 2023On August 17, 2005, militants blasted bombs in 63 districts of the country simultaneously within a span of 30 minutes. Around 18 years have passed since that incident but the trial of the cases is not over yet. On the contrary, the activities of the banned outfit Jama’atul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), the militant group responsible for the attack, have not stopped. Although somewhat cornered, the JMB is…
report in Prothom Alo, 13 Aug 2023Sohel Tanjim, a physician of a private medical college hospital in Sirajganj, had been missing along with his wife Mayesha Islam since 26 July. Their family lodged a general diary with the local police station, seeking assistance to trace them. The police arrested Mayesha from a militant den in a deserted area of Kulaura upazila in Moulvibazar on Saturday, but her husband Sohel managed to escape. The counter terrorism…
Report in Dawn, June 6th, 2023PESHAWAR/SWAT: Three soldiers were martyred during clashes between security forces and militants in North and South Waziristan districts, according to the military’s media affairs wing. Two militants were also killed in the fighting, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said. In Swat, meanwhile, a key militant commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) was arrested during an operation in which a civilian lost his life and a policeman was injured. ISPR said…