By Barialai Ansari in ToloNews, Sept 16, 2023 at 7:42 PMThe Islamic Emirate’s leader, Mawlawi Hibatullah Akhundzada, reportedly on a visit to Uruzgan, urged officials to address the challenges of the citizens based on Sharia. A spokesman for the Uruzgan governor, Ihsanullah Hamas, said that the Islamic Emirate’s leader held separate meetings with religious clerics, tribal elders and local officials and stressed the need to address existing problems in the province. “In this meeting with…
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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…
Report in Dawn, August 19th, 2023KARACHI: Two suspected militants were arrested and a grenade was recovered from them in the Gadap area on Friday, officials said. A Rangers spokesperson said that the held suspects — Farmanullah alias Ihtisham and Daud alias Amir Sahib — were affiliated with the militant Islamic State (IS) group. A joint team of Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) and the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) carried out an intelligence-based raid and arrested the suspects.…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, August 16th, 2023QUETTA: An under-construction railway line, linking Harnai with Sibi, was blown up by unknown militants on Tuesday, according to officials. Last week, Pakistan Railway restarted passenger and goods trains after 17 years between Sibi and Harnai after laying down a new track and constructing railway bridges. All railway tracks and bridges were destroyed by the militants due to which train services remained suspended for years. While confirming the…
By Fidel Rahmati in the Khaama Press online, August 9, 2023The de facto administration of Afghanistan once again has rejected the repeated allegations of the Pakistani officials and said that Afghanistan is not responsible for the “failure of any regional country’s security.” Zabihulla Mujahid, the spokesperson of the Taliban-led government, said that following recent attacks in Pakistan, Pakistani authorities once again blamed Afghans rather than strengthening their country’s security. “The government of Afghanistan reiterates its…
by Arjun Poudel in The Kathmandu Post, Aug 1, 2023On Sunday, a delegation of locals from Kalikamai Rural Municipality of Parsa district reached the district administration office and drew the attention of the officials concerned about the growing drinking water woes in their areas. The delegation sought help from the administration office for the supply of drinking water in areas having an acute water scarcity. “Forget about rice plantations, we are even struggling to arrange…
report in Dawn, June 28th, 2023LOWER DIR: The police claimed to have recovered five suicide jackets, explosives, grenades, eatables and military uniforms with Afghanistan labels from a mountain in Shago Kas area here the other day, senior officials said. Briefing journalists here, Lower Dir district police officer Ziauddin and SP Counter-Terrorism Department Amjad Khan said the suicide vests and explosives were recovered during a search and strike operation conducted on a tip-off. The officials said…
by Mohiuddin Alamgir in The Daily Star,Jun 4, 2023 At least 18,465 non-government primary schools closed their doors for good in 2021 and 2022 due to what officials said were the impacts of Covid-19 pandemic. Most of these schools were closed in 2021 because the owners could not bear the cost of running them. The final draft of Annual Primary School Census (APSC) 2022 shows 4,352 private primary schools faced closure last year. In 2022,…
Report in Dawn, May 2nd, 2023QUETTA: At least two security personnel sustained injuries in a grenade attack on an FC checkpoint near Nushki on the Quetta-Taftan highway on Monday, officials said. In the early hours of morning, the officials said, some motorcyclists hurled a hand grenade at the FC checkpoint but managed to speed away when countered by gunfire. Two security personnel who were injured in the attack were rushed to hospital, while security forces…
By Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 13th, 2023PESHAWAR: Three militants were shot dead and six others arrested during operations by security forces and Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of police on Wednesday, officials said. An intense exchange of fire took place between security forces and militants during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the Loesum area of Bajaur, where, according to local officials, three militants were gunned down. A statement later issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR),…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press online, March 31, 2023Taliban’s Foreign Ministry officials in Nimruz province said that 20 Afghan inmates, including students, scholars and ordinary citizens were released from Iran’s Zahedan province. The Directorate of Information and Culture in western Nimruz province in an announcement said that after being released, the inmates were handed over to the Taliban officials in Zaranj the provincial capital of Nimruz province. According to Taliban officials, these individuals were…