Report in Dawn, January 10th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unknown militants attacked the Yarik police station here on Sunday night with gunfire and ‘missiles’. However, no loss of life was reported. A police spokesman, Syed Yaqoob Shah, told Dawn on Monday that militants surrounded the Yarik police station at around 1am and fired missiles at the building. He said the police retaliated to the attack and an exchanged fire with the attackers took place, which lasted…
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Report in Dawn, January 6th, 2023KARACHI: Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday the Islamic State (IS) militants involved in the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul have been killed in an operation, Dawn.com reported. Afghan security forces carried out operations in Kabul against a “dangerous network” of the militant Islamic State group who were involved in attacks on the Pakistan embassy and on a hotel where Chinese nationals were staying, Mr Mujahid said…
Report in Dawn, January 6th, 2023KARACHI: Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabihullah Mujahid said on Thursday the Islamic State (IS) militants involved in the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul have been killed in an operation, Dawn.com reported. Afghan security forces carried out operations in Kabul against a “dangerous network” of the militant Islamic State group who were involved in attacks on the Pakistan embassy and on a hotel where Chinese nationals were staying, Mr Mujahid said…
report in Prothom Alo,Dec 28, 2022Police on Tuesday claimed that they have found involvement of the assistant personal secretary (APS) of late former railway minister, Suranjit Sengupta, in snatching two militants away from court premises in broad daylight. The APS, Omar Faruk Talukder, was arrested six days ago and taken to remand twice for four days where the counter terrorism investigation unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) interrogated him. Additional commissioner of DMP, Md Asaduzzaman,…
report in The News, Dec 25, 2022DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected militants attacked a patrolling van of the police in the limits of Kulachi Police Station here on Saturday, however, no loss of life was reported in the incident, sources said. The sources said that the cops were conducting patrolling in the limits of Kulachi Police Station when the attack took place. The cops also returned the fire. No loss of life was reported in the…
IF the Afghan Taliban want the world to grant them legitimacy, then they should be able to fulfil the duties of a responsible government. This includes maintaining calm at the borders, and preventing their own fighters or other militants from attacking innocent people across the frontier. The tragic incident at the Pak-Afghan border in Chaman on Sunday indicates that either Kabul’s rulers are incapable of securing their borders, or that some elements within the Taliban…
report in The Daily Star, Dec 6, 2022Five operatives of newly formed militant outfit Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindai Sharqiya were planning to kill a member of a law enforcement agency before they were arrested by Rab on Sunday. The outfit recruited three to four members who would have executed the plan in Gaibandha under the leadership of an armed and trained member, Rab said yesterday. The five operatives were arrested from Narayanganj’s Sonargaon and Dhaka’s…
AFP report, Dec 2, 2022WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday announced it was designating South Asian Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) leaders as terrorists, vowing action as alarms grow over Afghanistan. The targeted militants include four leaders of Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent (AQIS), a regional branch of the network, including its self-styled “emir” Osama Mehmood. The United States also designated the number two of the TTP, Mufti Hazrat Deroji, also known as Qari Amjad,…
by Kristin Huang in South China Morning Post, Apr 13, 2017, 10:34pm A remote area in China’s Xinjiang is offering huge rewards to thwart terrorism, the latest authority in the region to give large cash incentives to help catch militants. Altay, which is close to Kazakhstan, Russia and Mongolia, is offering up to 5 million yuan (US$725,000) for tip-offs, the prefecture’s police authority said in a statement on its social media account. The rewards dwarf…
Meherpur: Two people were killed reportedly in a ‘gunfight’ with police at Gangni upazila in Meherpur at midnight on Thursday. Identities of the deceased, both aged about 25, could not be known immediately. Police said miscreants opened fire on a patrol police team in Hariadaho village under Raipur union of the village, triggering a gunfight with the police that left two people dead on the spot.http://en.prothom-alo.com/bangladesh/news/145245/Two-killed-in-police-shootout
Pakistan’s continuing ceasefire violations on the Indian border and other uncalled for and illegal actions against Indian people for several months now have gone beyond “skirmishes“ and are grave enough for the international community to condemn these actions and warn the country’s leadership. Ever since the surgical strike by the Indian Special Forces caught the Pak military and political leadership off guard and left them red faced, there has been a concerted effort to divert…