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Huji-B tries to resurface in guise of Ansar al Islam

by Nuruzzaman Labu in Dhaka Tribune, Aug 22, 2023The banned militant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad-al Islami Bangladesh (Huji-B), which had direct involvement in the grenade attack on August 21, 2004, is now trying to resurface in the guise of another banned militant organization Ansar-Al-Islam The organization is still carrying out its operations in the country. Some top leaders were executed for their involvement in a grenade attack on August 21. Besides, some were arrested. Despite many challenges,…

Three midnight militant attacks repulsed in Peshawar

Report in Dawn, August 15th, 2023PESHAWAR: The police and security forces repulsed three midnight militant attacks at as many locations in the jurisdiction of Mattani police station – an area bordering the Kohat district – some 50 kilometres south of the provincial capital. Police officials said that militants attacked Hameed Khan police post with latest weaponry from a nearby forest. However, they said that the militants could not hit the police post since they were…

10 held from Moulvibazar ‘militant hideout’, explosives recovered

report in The Daily Star, Aug 12, 2023Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police arrested 10 people — four male and six women — from a “militant hideout” in the remote hilly area of Kulaura in Moulvibazar today. They also had three children with them, Mohammad Asaduzzaman, chief of the specialised unit, told the media after the operation. “We had information that a new extremist group had radicalised a large number…

CTD denies existence of Tehreek-i-Jihad, claims it is another name for TTP

Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023PESHAWAR: The counter-terrorism department on Wednesday denied the existence of Tehreek-i-Jihad Pakistan and claimed that the TJP was an alternative name for the proscribed militant outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan. “The TJP is a name used by the banned TTP. Though the banned TTP disassociated itself from the July 25 suicide bombing in Ali Masjid area of Khyber tribal district, we [department] have evidence of its involvement in the blast,” CTD deputy…

Counter-terrorism approach should evolve in line with threat: US official

Report in Dawn, Aug 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan grapples with an increase in militant attacks seemingly emanating from across the border, a top White House National Security official has called the threat “more ideologically diverse and geographically diffuse”, underscoring the need for keeping pace with the threat level. “More broadly, today’s terrorist threat is more ideologically diverse and geographically diffuse than that of two decades ago. Al-Qaeda, ISIS and associated forces have expanded from Afghanistan…

4 alleged terrorists held, weapons seized in Hangu

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…

Who are these Kuki-Chin armies in the CHT? (From Archives)

by Probir Kumar Sarker in Dhaka Tribune, May 18, 2023The Kuki-Chin National Front (KNF), or the Bom Party, surfaced on the scene last year after the Indian border forces arrested a dozen members with arms and ammunition in Mizoram. In October, law enforcers discovered that KNF was training members of a new militant group named Jama’atul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya in exchange for money. Formed in 2017, the KNF aims at establishing a separate State…

Casualties from violence soar in year’s first quarter

Report in Dawn, April 16th, 2023ISLAMABAD: At least 854 people were killed or wounded in militant attacks and counterterrorism operations in the first quarter of this year, a number that was half of what witnessed during the entire 2022, a report showed on Saturday. According to the report, prepared by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, the number of deaths was 358 and that of injuries was 496, which resulted from as many as…

‘Militant commander’ among eight killed in S. Waziristan

By Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 6th, 2023PESHAWAR: A key militant commander and his seven associates were killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out by security forces in the Shinwarsak area of South Waziristan tribal district, on Wednesday. A sepoy of Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom while four others, including two officers, sustained injuries during the exchange of fire with militants, confirmed the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Local officials said that the eight gunned down…

CTD claims arrest of suspected militant in Kotri:

Report in Dawn, April 2nd, 2023HYDERABAD: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Hyderabad police arrested a suspected member of banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan who claimed to have links in past with Tehreek-i-Taliban Afghanistan as well, and found a hand-grenade in his possession. A CTD spokesman said in a press release issued here on Saturday that the suspect Ammar Khan alias Qalandar Umar, a resident of Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was picked up after an intelligence-based operation near…

Two policemen martyred in attacks on census teams in KP

by Irfan Mughal | Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, March 14th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN / LAKKI MARWAT: Two pol­i­cemen embraced martyrdom and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s sou­thern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat while a militant was shot dead in a security forces operation in Dera Ismail Khan district on Monday. A police van came under attack in the Kot-Azam area of Tank district while it…