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At least three security personnel martyred, 12 injured in DI Khan attack

report in The Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2023At least three security personnel were martyred and 12 were injured in a suicide attack in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). According to police officials, terrorists attacked security forces billeted at the Daraban School in DI Khan. A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) was rammed in to the building at around 3am, causing it to collapse. Following the car bombing, terrorists entered the school premises.…

Uncollected taxes, penalties and interest now amount to Rs 943 bn

By Shamindra Ferdinando in The Island, Nov 20, 2023The Inland Revenue Department (IRD) has told the parliamentary watchdog Committee on Public Accounts (COPA) that it couldn’t fully take over the Revenue Administration Management Information System aka RAMIS for want of sufficient number of qualified personnel. Top management of the IRD said so when COPA Chairman Lasantha Alagiyawanna (SLPP), during proceedings, asked them whether they could run RAMIS on its own. This is Alagiyawanna’s second stint…

No police personnel have been charged over Easter bombings yet – Minister

report in adaderana.lk, Sept 21, 2023Minister of Public Security Tiran Alles has stated that no police personnel have been charged in connection with the Easter Sunday bombings of 2019 thus far. Speaking in Parliament today (20 Sep.), he stated that as per the reports submitted by the relevant Presidential Commission of Inquiry, no police personnel have been charged in this regard, and have only been under observation thus far. The Minister asserted this in response…