report in Daily Times, Dec 10, 2022Pakistan has taken all-out facilitative measures at all five Pakistan-Afghanistan border crossing points to ensure the smooth processing of Afghan people, despite a heavy inflow of around 385,000 people a month. Currently, Pakistan has five crossing points operational with Afghanistan, which include Chaman, Torkham, Kharlachi, Ghulam Khan and Angoor Ada. Around 13,000 people move to and from Afghanistan through these crossing points that include pedestrians, patients, traders, tourists and…
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by Ahmad Nabi in the Nation, Dec 11, 2022KHYBER – The tribesmen of Landi Kotal blocked the pak-afghan highway in protest over a truck driver’s abduction by unidentified robbers in Kashmore, Sindh, and demanded that the provincial government should take immediate action to secure the truck driver’s safe release. Along with local political figures, members of public and transporters blocked the sultan-Khel Landi Kotal road in the Takia area with stones and other obstructions. Member…
report in The Nation, Dec 10, 2022PESHAWAR – Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) in an intelligence-based joint operation with security forces arrested four alleged members of Attiq-ur-Rehman, alias Tipu Group, in Lakki Marwat, said a press release issued on Friday. The arrested terrorists were allegedly involved in recent terrorist activities including target killings of police personnel, extortion and attacks on police installations. CTD has also recovered arms and ammunition from their possession. In another operation, another alleged…
By Samina Akhter in Pakistan Today, Dec 9, 2022The latest report of Bertelsmann Stiftung’s project ‘Shaping Change – Strategies of Development and Transformation’ for 2022 about Pakistan confirms that the state’s monopoly on the use of force is contested by terrorist organizations, sectarian groups, ethno-nationalist insurgencies, and criminal gangs involved in the smuggling of goods and narcotics. The report says that much of the violence committed by these non-state actors is concentrated in the province…
by Tahir Niaz in The Nation, Dec 9, 2022ISLAMABD – The government has decided to set up National Counter-Terrorism Department at the federal level. Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah presided over the third meeting of the board of governors of the National Counter Terrorism Authority here on Thursday. National Coordinator NACTA, Muhammad Tahir Rai presented different financial and administrative proposals besides recommending formation of National Counter-terrorism Department (National CTD). The interior minister directed the concerned authorities…
By Asim Yasin in the News, Dec 9, 2022ISLAMABAD: …….. The National Counter Terrorism Authority in Islamabad informed the ( Senate Standing) Committee on Interior on Thursday that the US withdrawal had boosted TTP activities with its base in Afghanistan still intact and that the terrorism index had risen. The Senate Committee on the Interior was briefed that during the peace talks process, the TTP gained considerable ground and increased its footprint and magnitude of…
by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, Dec 9th, 2022ISLAMABAD: A document prepared by the National Counter-Terrorism Authority (Nacta) presented to the Senate Standing Committee on Interior blamed the ‘peace talks’ with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) for an increase in terror attacks across the country. The Senate panel was informed that the dialogue initiated with the banned outfit by the government of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) “emboldened” the Taliban which increased their “footprint and magnitude of…
The coming year promises an action-filled news cycle, what with the PML-N’s Ayaz Sadiq having revealed that PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif is all set to return to Pakistan in January 2023. Nawaz, who has been in self-exile in London for three years now, will return to award party tickets to candidates for the upcoming elections. Over the last three years, many PML-N leaders have claimed – sporadically – that Nawaz will be returning soon but…
Report in The Nation, Dec 08, 2022PESHAWAR – Counter Terrorism Department on Wednesday claimed to have arrested five terrorists including one having head money of Rs2 million. A police official said that on a tip-off, the CTD personnel along with other spy agencies raided an area in the Bannu region and arrested the four men. One Kalashnikov, three mobile phones. The arrestees belonged to the banned TTP-Tipu group and had been wanted by the law-enforcement…
By Wajid Ali Syed in The News, December 08, 2022WASHINGTON: The US State Department has warned of taking action if international terrorists regroup in Afghanistan, while expressing concerns that the Taliban-run country may once again turn into a refuge for militants. US State Department Spokesperson Ned Price raised the concerns during a press briefing, in light of the deteriorating situation in the region after an attack on Pakistan Embassy in Kabul. He said that the…
Too little, too late?
Editorial in Pakistan Today, Dec 8, 2022The Supreme Court’s taking suo motu notice of journalist Arshad Sharif’s murder in Nairobi may be a case of too little too late. An FIR of the murder was registered by the Ramna Police Station’s SHO on the Court’s order on Tuesday. The complainant said in the FIR that he had gone to the Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences on the night of October 26, when the medicolegal examination…