By Azaz Syed in The News, April 15, 2023ISLAMABAD: Responding to the query of MNA Mohsin Dawar, a high-ranking security official said two top militants from Swat allegedly involved in butchering people back in 2009-10 were still in custody of the security forces. “When I came I was told that both the butchers of Swat were being released but I ordered stopping their release,” he said. Dawar had asked about Muslim Khan and Mehmood Khan…
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By Manzoor Ali | Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, April 12th, 2023PESHAWAR/KHYBER: Three alleged militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in Bannu district on Tuesday, according to the military’s media wing. The operation was conducted in the Nurar locality of Bannu district around midnight, the ISPR said, adding that three alleged terrorists were killed following an intense exchange of fire with the troops. The ISPR claimed that the deceased terrorists were actively involved in attacks…
Report in Dawn, April 11th, 2023SWABI: A constable was among five people injured when unidentified militants attacked the Tordher police station in Chota Lahor tehsil with a grenade on Sunday night, the police and rescue officials said. District police officer Najamul Hussain said on Monday that the attack occurred three days after an assistant sub-inspector was martyred and two police personnel were injured when militants lobbed grenades onto their car in Yar Hussain area. He…
report in Dhaka Tribune, Apr 9, 20-23The Counter Terrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) unit of Bangladesh police said on Saturday that two death-row militants, who were snatched from the Dhaka court premises, are still residing in Bangladesh. The militants were snatched after a six-month-long plan and the information about the plan was delivered to the imprisoned militants by Shikha, the wife of one of the escaped militants Md Abu Siddique Sohel and the key coordinator…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, March 11th, 2023PESHAWAR: Just two days after the killing of six militants in Datta Khel, at least five militants were gunned down and a huge cache of arms and ammunition was seized from their possession during an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) carried out by the security forces in North and South Waziristan districts on Friday. According to local officials, security forces acting on information received about presence of militants in parts…
by Ali Raza Rind in Dawn, March 9th, 2023WASHUK: A Levies Force sepoy was martyred and another was injured after Dahli check post was attacked by banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants late Tuesday night, triggering an exchange of fire. Basima Assistant Commissioner Shahzad Zehri told Dawn that a miscreant was also killed in the exchange of fire with Levies Force members during the clash. He said sepoy Naimatullah was critically injured and later died while…
by Muhammad Irfan Mughal | Pazir Gul in Dawn, March 9th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN/NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A police officer guarding a census team was martyred and four other cops were injured when militants targeted their vehicle in Dera Ismail Khan on Wednesday. Separately, six militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in the Datta Khel area of North Waziristan, the military’s media wing said. In the Dera Ismail Khan attack, unidentified shooters targeted the police vehicle…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, March 3rd, 2023GWADAR: Two alleged militants were killed in an exchange of fire with security forces in Shapok and Sammi areas of Kech district on Thursday. Officials said security forces had launched a search operation on a tip-off about the presence of suspected militants in the mountainous area of Kech district. The alleged militants were identified as Shoaib and Yahya who belonged to a banned outfit, according to officials. In…
by Pazir Gul in Dawn, February 15th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Seven militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed when cops repulsed an attack on a police van carrying three detained militants to Bannu from North Waziristan, the Counterterrorism Department (CTD) said on Tuesday. The three detained militants were also among those killed in the Monday night clash, the CTD said. The CTD said its officials were shifting the three militants from Miramshah to Bannu…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, Jan 15, 2023• Two ‘assailants’ killed hours after Sarband attack; militants used automatic weapons, thermal sights PESHAWAR: A senior police officer along with two constables embraced martyrdom in a midnight militant attack, which officials believe is the first of its kind where modern gadgets were used to target police, on Sarband police station on the outskirts of Peshawar. Deputy Superintendent of Police Sardar Hussain and his gunmen Irshad Khan and…
by Riazul Haq in Dawn, December 28th, 2022, updatedInterior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the number of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) fighters in the region was between 7,000 to 10,000, adding that some of the militants who had previously laid down arms have now secretly resumed activities. In an interview with Dawn News TV programme Live with Adil Shahzeb on Tuesday, he revealed that there were around 7,000 to 10,000 TTP fighters in the region…