Report in Dawn, April 8th, 2023SWABI/NORTH WAZIRISTAN: An assistant sub-inspector of police embraced martyrdom and two other personnel suffered critical injuries when militants attacked the vehicle they travelled in with a hand grenade in Swabi district on Friday evening. Also in the day, a police constable was killed in an act of ‘target killing’ in North Waziristan tribal district. The Swabi attack was reported in the main Yar Hussain Bazaar a few minutes before Iftar…
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report in The News, April 03, 2023PESHAWAR: A police post in the Sheikhan village of the Badaber area was attacked with a hand grenade early Sunday. No casualty was reported when unidentified motorcyclists lobbed a hand grenade into the police post, close to the boundary with the Khyber tribal district, said officials. In one such attack on Sarband Police Station a few weeks back, the attackers targeted a deputy superintendent of police, Sardar Hussain, and…
report in The Daily Observer, Apr 3, 2023The Anti Terrorism Unit (ATU) of Bangladesh Police arrested an active member of the banned militant organisation ‘Ansar al-Islam’ from Kalapara in Patuakhali on Sunday morning. The arrestee is identified as Abdur Rahman, 36, son of Late Jabbar Munshi, hailed from Rahamatpur area of Kalapara municipality. Sources said a team, led by Assistant Sub Inspector of Anti Terrorism Unit (ATU) Abdur Rahim Chawdhury, conducted a raid in Rahamatpur…
report in adaderana.lk, Apr 1, 2023 at 11:50 pmSri Lanka Police have arrested 28 Chinese nationals who were involved in online financial fraud. Among the suspects were five Chinese women. The police found five laptops, and several smartphones on the suspects at the time of the arrest. After being informed by the INTERPOL about the group of scammers, local law enforcement authorities swung into action and apprehended the suspects who were staying at a tourist…
By Fatima Adib in TOLOnews, April 01,2023 at 2:34 PMThe Ministry of Interior Affairs said on Saturday that the number of police force members has increased to nearly 200,000. Abdul Nafay Takur, a spokesman for the ministry, said the purpose of the recruitment is to ensure public order and fight drugs and crimes. “The number will increase if needed,” he said. Military affairs analysts said focusing on establishing well-trained and professional forces is essential. “I…
Report in Pakistan Today, Mar 31, 2023PESHAWAR: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in a pair of attacks killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa early Thursday, police said. The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to the attack on a police station in the town bordering…
Report in Dawn, March 30th, 2023KARACHI: Four policemen narrowly survived a grenade attack on their mobile van in Shah Latif Town in the wee hours of Wednesday morning, police said. No one claimed responsibility for the attack in which the police van was partially damaged. The police said that the incident took place at Haji Ismail Jokhio Goth off National Highway at around 4:15am when the mobile van was stationed and policemen were busy in…
Report in The News, March 30, 2023Unidentified suspects threw a hand grenade at a police van in Karachi’s outskirts early on Wednesday morning. Police said the incident took place near Shah Latif’s Manzil Pump, which falls in District Malir. SSP Hasan Sardar told the media that no one was hurt in the attack. He said that three men on two motorbikes had arrived on the scene and one of them had hurled a bomb at…
Report in Dawn, March 27th, 2023DADU: A hand grenade was safely defused by the bomb disposal squad (BDS) of Sehwan police after it was found lying on the rail tracks near Bagh-i-Yousuf in the city on Sunday. Sehwan SHO Abdul Jabbar Memon told local reporters that the area police received information from some people about presence of the grenade on the track. A joint team of the Sehwan police station and Madadgar-15 rushed to the…
Report in The News, March 26, 2023The chief of the East Range police, Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Muqadas Haider, on Saturday announced the arrest of two suspects involved in the recent murder of Maulana Sufi Abdul Qayyum in Gulistan-e-Jauhar. In a media briefing at the East SSP Office, DIG Haider said the suspects involved in the killing of the religious scholar, the case of which was registered under the sections 302/34 at the Gulistan-e-Jauhar police…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, March 22nd, 2023KARACHI: A religious scholar was shot dead in what police described as a targeted attack in Gulistan-i-Jauhar on Tuesday morning. The area police said that Mufti Abdul Qayyum, 45, was targeted by two assailants in Block-9 at around 7am when he was returning home after offering Fajr prayer. SSP-East Zubair Nazeer Shaikh said that the scholar was on foot when two men on a motorcycle intercepted him, fired…