by FM Mizanur Rahaman & Emrul Hasan Bappiin The Daily Star, Nov 12, 2023The Police Headquarters in August asked all its units to implement a set of measures by September 15 to prevent recurrence of militants or criminals getting snatched away. Some of the vital measures, however, are yet to be implemented. The measures were adopted based on 14 recommendations placed by a high-powered committee formed to investigate the incident of two death-row convicts in…
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by Saleem Shahid Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023QUETTA: Five suspected terrorists of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an operation conducted by the Balochistan police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday, according to officials. The operation was planned on the intelligence provided by TTP militant Naseebullah, who was arrested some time back, during the investigation. He revealed the presence of militants in the Aghberg area, a locality on the outskirts of the…
AFP report, Sept 7, 2023DUSHANBE: Tajikistan said on Wednesday that it had killed three members of a “terrorist group” who had infiltrated the country from neighbouring Afghanistan, the second such incident this year in the Central Asian nation. Tajikistan is a sparsely-populated, poor, mountainous ex-Soviet country where fears have risen that the return to power of the Taliban in its war-scarred southern neighbour could destabilise the country. “Three members of a terrorist organisation breached the…
report in Dawn, Sept 3rd, 2023KHYBER: Three militants were killed in an encounter with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) sleuths in the mountainous region of Shagai in Jamrud tehsil here on Saturday. A press release issued by the CTD said that a raiding party along with two activists of the proscribed Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), who had been under the department’s custody for some time, was on way to some hidden caves near the old Torkham road in…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, August 31st, 2023QUETTA: A top commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and three other militants of the group were killed in an exchange of fire with CTD officials during an operation in the Surkhab Afghan refugee camp area of Pishin. The TTP commander was identified as Shakar Din alias Omer Khalid. Three other TTP militants were identified as Ahmedullah, Aminullah and Abdul Fatha, all Afghans. A spokesman for the…
report in Dawn, August 27th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested eight suspected militants linked with banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. According to the spokesman, the CTD conducted 74 intelligence-based operations in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any untoward incident of terrorism, in which 74 suspected people were interrogated and eight alleged militants were arrested with weapons, explosives and other…