by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Jan 1, 2023ISLAMABAD – The year 2022 has seen the highest number of militant attacks in Pakistan during the last five years as the terror incidents increased by 28 percent compared to 2021. The country has also witnessed four times more suicide attacks in 2022 than in 2021. In 2022, Pakistan faced at least 15 suicide bombings while in 2021; only four suicide attacks were reported. This is the…
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Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: The year 2022 ended with the deadliest month for Pakistan’s security personnel over a decade with the emergence of a new terror triad, comprising Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Daesh-Afghanistan. In 2023, Pakistan is likely to endure more violence, a report released by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) stated. Security forces lost at least 282 personnel in 2022, with 40 fatalities only in…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2023CHAGAI: A huge cache of arms and ammunition was recovered during an intelligence-based operation near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chagai district, a district official confirmed. Dalbandin Assistant Commissioner Abdul Basit Buzdar told Dawn that mortar shells, anti-aircraft guns’ bullets and other ammunition was dumped in a mountainous area which was recovered. However, no arrest was made during the raid.https://www.dawn.com/news/1729329/huge-cache-of-weapons-seized
Report in Dawn, january 1st, 2023KARACHI: The Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) on Saturday claimed that they carried out 269 operations against terrorism, targeted killings, extortion and kidnapping for ransom, and arrested 65 ‘high-profile’ suspects involved in these four categories of heinous crimes. These high-profile suspects were linked with ‘Lyari gang-war, MQM-London and outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),’ according to the paramilitary force spokesperson. Giving break-up, the official said that total 181 operations were conducted against terrorism in…
report in Daily Times, Jan 1, 2023The year 2022 ended with December as the deadliest month for Pakistan while the country suffered as many as 376 terror attacks in last year that resulted in an increased number of casualties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces. The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in its annual report released on Saturday, said that the majority of these attacks were claimed by the banned terror outfits such…
report in Khaama Press, Dec 31, 2022Refugees from Afghanistan are facing unprecedented challenges in Pakistan, especially after the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August 2021. Their numbers have swelled in Pakistan in the last two years as Afghanistan is going through a difficult phase with acute food and medical shortages. With the increase of insecurity in different parts of Pakistan, Afghan men are regularly picked up for interrogations by the state security agencies. Even women…
Report in The Nation, Dec 31, 2022ISLAMABAD – The National Security Committee (NSC) Friday expressed an unequivocal opinion that Pakistan’s national interests will not be compromised and nobody will be allowed to harm the key concept of national security. The NSC, which met in Islamabad on Friday with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif in the chair, expressed the commitment that the fundamental interests of Pakistan’s survival, security and development will be safeguarded with utmost courage, consistency…
report in Dawn, December 30th, 2022ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office has said that Pakistan has pursued continuous and practical engagement with the interim Afghan government since the Taliban’s takeover of Kabul on Aug 15, 2021. Addressing a weekly briefing on Thursday, FO Spokesperson Mumtaz Zehra Baloch said that during the outgoing year Pakistan was involved in multilateral diplomacy, both in an individual capacity and as a member of international groupings. Regarding Afghanistan, she expressed disappointment over…
by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, December 29th, 2022ISLAMABAD: Amid a rise in terror attacks across the country, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) leader Fawad Chaudhry on Wednesday linked the resurgence of terrorism with what he called the “reversal of PTI government’s policy on Afghanistan”. Addressing a press conference in Islamabad, the former information minister said Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari did not understand the situation in Afghanistan. He added if the situation in Kabul deteriorated it would have…
report in The News, Dec 29, 2022LAHORE/ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman and former prime minister Imran Khan has said his government had been negotiating with the Afghan Taliban government resettlement of some 40,000 Pakistani Taliban, including 5,000 to 10,000, militants, but the new government did not pay much attention to this issue and the country is facing terrorism now, reports Geo News. He said the Pakistani Taliban, who had fought the Americans and were mostly…
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…