By Abdul Sami Paracha in Dawn, May 24th, 2023KOHAT: Six security officials were martyred after more than a dozen militants stormed an oil and gas exploration site, police and the energy firm said on Tuesday. The attack took place at facilities run by MOL Pakistan Oil and Gas Company, a unit of Hungary’s MOL, in the Manji Khel area of Hangu district near the Afghan border. Police said the militants targeted two wells, known as…
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Report in Dawn, May 23rd, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Two government schools for girls in Mirali were blown up late Sunday night, police said. No loss of life was reported in the incidents. According to police, Government Girls Middle School, Noor Jannat, and Government Girls Middle School, Yunus Kot, were targeted by the attackers around midnight. Locals said around 500 girls were enrolled in the two schools. District Police Officer, North Waziristan, Saleem Riaz said it was…
report in Dawn, May 20, 2023Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq on Friday narrowly escaped a “suicide attack” that targeted his convoy in Balochistan’s Zhob while six others were injured, according to police. City police station Station House Officer (SHO) Sher Ali Mandokhail told Dawn.com that all of the injured were being treated at Civil Hospital, Zhob and one of them was in critical condition. He said Haq’s vehicle was partly damaged in the incident while…
By Nizamuddin Rezahi in Khaama Press, May 20, 2023Taliban released Ali Latifi, an Afghan-American journalist after he was detained in Kabul on charge of “suspicious behavior” according to police officials. Khalid Zadran, a spokesperson for the Taliban’s security command in Kabul wrote on Twitter on May 19 that Latifi was arrested late on May 18 in the capital on charges of suspicious behavior, but released late Friday night. Hashmat Ghani, the brother of former Afghan…
Report in Pakistan Today, May 19, 2023PESHAWAR: At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in a blast at a motorcycle workshop near the Ring Road here on Thursday, according to police. Peshawar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harood Rashid confirmed the injuries and fatalities. He said the explosion occurred in the jurisdiction of the Peshatakara police station. According to the official, the injured persons had been moved to the Hayatabad Medical…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, May 17, 2023The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the decisions of lower courts to convict Resham Lal Chaudhary, a former lawmaker, in connection with the August 2015 Tikapur incident that saw seven police personnel and a toddler killed. Rejecting Resham’s plea for a clean chit, a division bench of justices Anand Mohan Bhattarai and Nahakul Sudedi concluded that he should face life imprisonment. Resham, along with ten others—who…
report in Prothom Alo, May 16, 2023Law enforcement agencies including the police do not have any specific information about the whereabouts of Major (retd) Abdul Jalil, the main accused in the Colonel Khandkar Nazmul Huda murder case. It has been confirmed that he is alive. It is learned that he used to live in an apartment in Siddheshwari of the capital a couple of years ago. Nobody has any information as to where he lives…
By Abdul Wahid Shahwani in Dawn, April 28th, 2023KHUZDAR: A senior police official of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Khuzdar was martyred in a bomb attack on Thursday. According to the police, a roadside bomb went off when Inspector Sharbat Khan’s vehicle reached Khuzdar Medical College on the Quetta-Karachi Highway while he was on his way to the police station. Mr Khan died on the spot as the explosion left his vehicle completely…
report in The Island, Apr 27, 2023Two of the seven Senior DIGs suddenly transferred by police headquarters have refused to abide by the directive, demanding the immediate intervention of the National Police Commission (NPC). Retired IGP Chandra Fernando heads the NPC. The senior officers transferred with effect from 25 April, included Lalith Pathinayake, Ajith Rohana, S.C. Medawatte and W.K. Jayalath on what police headquarters called, service requirements. Senior DIG of the Southern Province Ajith Rohana,…
By Fazal Khaliq | Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, April 25th, 2023SWAT / LAKKI MARWAT: At least a dozen people, including police officials, lost their lives in a powerful explosion inside the Kabal police station late on Monday evening. According to hospital sources, at least 57 people — including three civilians — sustained injuries in the blast. The explosion that rocked the police station, which reportedly occurred on the premises of the Counter Terrorism Department…
By Essa Khankhel & Mehboob Ali in The News, April 25, 2023MINGORA/ISLAMABAD: At least 13 people, majority of them believed to be policemen, were killed and 42 others injured in two mysterious explosions at the heavily-guarded Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Kabal town of Swat district on Monday. “The explosions took place at the CTD Police Station in Kabal in which 13 policemen were killed and 42 injured,” a senior police official told The…