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 Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, Feb 24th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Six militants were killed in an intelligence-based operation in the Kurrum Par area of Lakki Marwat district, a police official said on Thursday. He said a large contingent of police officers, assisted by counterterrorism officials, reached the trans-river area after being informed by local authorities that militants were present there. “There were reports that a group of militants have assembled in the forest near Abbasa…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, February 21st, 2023PESHAWAR: A senior security official in the provincial capital has revealed that the militants are spending the money extorted from the people to carry out their activities in the country. He told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the extortion demands totalled around Rs1.06 billion as indicated by the complaints lodged by the police. The official said that the amount was much higher than reported because many people…
report in Dawn, February 8th, 2023BAJAUR: Unknown miscreants lobbed grenades at the house of a police official in Lashora area of Khar tehsil on Monday night. However, no casualty was reported, the police said. A police statement said the grenades landed inside the house of police instructor Sahibzada. The statement did not mention the number of grenades used in the attack, saying the police official and his family members remained unhurt in the attack. It…
by Kamran Yousuf in The Express Tribune, Jan 5th, 2023.ISLAMABAD: Pakistan would approach the interim Afghan government with a fresh demand to deny the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its affiliates any space on the Afghan soil, official sources told The Express Tribune here on Wednesday. While the civil and military leadership decided to deal with the TTP and other terror outfits with iron hands, the Afghan Taliban would be asked to cooperate in this…