by Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee & Mohammad Jamil Khan in The Daily Star, June 14, 2023Contrary to the widespread perception that Jamaat-e-Islami has been on the wane for over the past 15 years, the Islamist party that actively opposed the birth of the nation is actually growing, according to intelligence and party documents. In 2008, the number of the party’s permanent members or Rukon was 23,863. That figure now stands at 73,046 — a threefold rise,…
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Report in The News. June 13, 2023The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Monday claimed to have arrested three terrorists belonging to a banned outfit’s sleeper Cell. A CTD official said the police arrested the suspects with the assistance of an intelligence agency. He said they recovered a huge cache of foreign-made weapons and hand grenades, adding that the arrested men had conducted recce of consulates and sensitive installations in Karachi on the instructions of their…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, June 11th, 2023GWADAR: Armed men gunned down the brother-in-law of a former provincial minister as well as a senior police officer on Saturday. Abdul Qayyum Buledi was shot dead by men riding a motorcycle while he was sitting outside his home. “Qayyum Buledi died on the spot after receiving multiple bullet injuries,” a Levies official said. He was brother-in-law of Zahoor Buledi, an ex-finance minister of Balochistan…. In another incident,…
by Behram Baloch in Dawn, June 11th, 2023GWADAR: Armed men gunned down the brother-in-law of a former provincial minister as well as a senior police officer on Saturday. Abdul Qayyum Buledi was shot dead by men riding a motorcycle while he was sitting outside his home. “Qayyum Buledi died on the spot after receiving multiple bullet injuries,” a Levies official said. He was brother-in-law of Zahoor Buledi, an ex-finance minister of Balochistan…. In another incident,…
According to police cyber bureau, 110 cases of sexual abuse against children were reported in the past 11 months.Nepal not doing enough to tackle online child abuseby Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, June 9, 2023Seven months ago, a woman in her mid-twenties sexually abused her nine-year-old sister. She also took pictures, made abusive videos by stripping the sister naked and sent it to her boyfriend, via Gmail. In the same week, while she was…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, June 07, 2023PESHAWAR: Hours after a militant was killed in Matani, a police post in nearby Sarband was attacked late Tuesday night. Heavy firing was reported from both sides as the alert cops retaliated. The firing continued for long. An official said no casualty was reported in attack on the Achini post in Sarband police station, close to Khyber district. Some reports said a rocket was fired on…
report in Prothom Alo, Jun 7, 2023The police detained 10 leaders and activists of Jamaat-e-Islami and Islami Chhatra Shibir on Tuesday night from Banani area in the capital, reports UNB. Tajul Islam, ameer of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Banani thana committee and secretary Maulana Rafi were among the arrestees. Confirming the matter, Banani police station’s officer-in-charge Mostafizur Rahman said they were detained at around 9:30pm on Tuesday while they were holding a ‘secret meeting’ at a local restaurant…
Report in Dawn, June 4, 2023 PESHAWAR: A religious scholar was killed in Afridi Abad area on the outskirts of the provincial capital on Saturday, the police said. Badhber police station officials said Muhibullah, a brother of the deceased, Mufti Ehsan, informed them that they were on their way back home after offering prayers in a mosque when unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at his brother, killing him on the spot. The officials said the attack…
Report in Dawn, May 27, 2023KHYBER: Two policemen lost their lives in a ‘mysterious’ grenade blast inside the police training centre in Shah Kas area of Jamrud tehsil on Thursday night. However, Khyber district police officer Salim Abbas Kulachi insisted a hand grenade went off after falling from the hands of a policeman when DSP Nawaz Khan was inspecting the security bunkers of the centre at midnight. He said two policemen, Shah Mehmood and Nur…
By Anup Ojha in The Kathmandu Post, May 26, 2023Police on Thursday said their investigation into the high-profile Bhutanese refugee scam continues even after the District Attorney Office Kathmandu prosecuted 30 persons including former ministers and top officials at the District Court, Kathmandu on Wednesday. The prosecutions were based on a police investigation report the attorney’s office received on Monday. “Our investigation is not over,” Kathmandu Police Range Chief Senior Superintendent of Police Dan Bahadur…
Report in Dawn, May 25th, 2023NORTH / SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Four people, including two soldiers and a cop, lost their lives when a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a police checkpoint in North Waziristan near the Afghanistan border on Wednesday, the district administration said. Separately, in South Waziristan, security forces killed six militants in an exchange of fire, the military said. North Waziristan’s deputy commissioner, Rehan Gull Khattak, said the suicide bomber targeted the…