Report in Dawn, March 20th, 2023KHYBER: Armed men attacked a police checkpost in Bara tehsil of the Khyber tribal district on Saturday night, damaging a vehicle parked there. Sources in Bara said that a group of militants hurled grenades at a checkpost, which was established inside a mosque in Merikhel locality. They said that the attack caused fire to a vehicle parked inside the checkpost, while the attackers managed to escape when the policemen retaliated…
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report on adaderana.lk, March 19, 2023 at 07:35 pmThe police have uncovered a hidden cache of high-power explosive materials from Avissawella, following a confession made by contract killer “Booru Muna” who was arrested after fleeing police custody recently. Thereby, 662 grams of C-4 type high-power explosive materials were found hidden under a utility pole on Dasawella Road in Hanwella. The explosive material stash was recovered by the crimes division of the Western Province (South) Police.…
report in Daily Times, mar 18, 2023The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday revealed that the mastermind behind the police lines mosque suicide bomb attack has been traced and confirmed that a faction of the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was behind it. Additional IG CTD Shaukat Abbas and DIG CTD Sohail Khalid stated that the attack was planned in Afghanistan and that a second suicide bomber was also prepared to carry out the…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, March 18, 2023PESHAWAR: A senior police official Friday claimed that there was a covering suicide bomber to carry out the attack who would have acted if his accomplice involved in Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines bombing had failed. “We have arrested a facilitator of the suicide bomber identified as Imtiaz Khan alias Tora Shpa. He himself was a trained suicide bomber and had to blow himself up if…
by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, March 15th, 2023KARACHI: Relatives of two persons, said to be involved in the Karachi Police Office (KPO) attack, staged a protest demonstration outside the Chhipa morgue in Abyssinia Lines on Tuesday against their killing in what they alleged a ‘fake’ encounter. On Monday, the Counter-Terrorism Department claimed to have killed two suspected militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan in an alleged encounter on the outskirts of the metropolis. It claimed…
by Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, March 14th, 2023KARACHI: Police on Monday claimed to have killed two ‘masterminds’ of last month’s deadly attack on the Karachi Police Office (KPO), while two other suspects affiliated with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested after an ‘encounter’ on the outskirts of the metropolis. Sindh Information Minister Sharjeel Inam Memon, flanked by senior officials of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD), said that in order to eliminate the network behind the…
report in The Daily Star, Mar 12, 2023Over 220 people were injured after students of Rajshahi University fought running battles with locals and police in Binodpur area near the campus yesterday evening over trifles. At least 20 students suffered shotgun pellet injuries as police fired teargas and rubber bullets to control the situation. Witnesses and law enforcers said the students vandalised and set ablaze some 50 shops in the area. A police outpost was also…
AFP in Dawn, March 12th, 2023MAZAR SHARIF: A bomb blast in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-i-Sharif on Saturday killed a security guard and wounded a group of journalists as well as several children, police and a witness said. The blast came two days after a suicide bomber killed the Taliban governor of northern Balkh province in an attack claimed by the militant Islamic State (IS) group. Saturday’s blast took place during an event honouring…
By Fidel Rahmati in Khaama Press online, March 10, 2023The Kabul police’s spokesman, Khalid Zadran, acknowledged an explosion in the city’s fifth district of Kabul on Friday evening. The blast occurred at the intersection of Spin Kelly in the Khushal Khan Mina area, fifth district of Kabul, where two people were injured. The police forces have gone to the place for investigation, Zadran said.During the last week, security has deteriorated, and Islamic State Khorasan has…
report in Dawn, March 10th, 2023SWABI: Gunmen killed three people in a car attack in Shewa village of Razaar tehsil here on Thursday. The police said Waqar Ahmad, his father Mohammad Sadiqand another person, Wahid Zaman, were targetedon the way to the Swabi Judicial Complex in Shahmansoor area. They said Waqar and Sadiq were to attend the court hearing into a murder case, while Zaman hitchhiked. The police said Sadiq died on the spot, while…
by Yohan Perera in Daily Mirror online, Mar 10, 2023Offering promotions to senior police officers who have been held responsible for the failure to prevent the Easter Sunday attacks cannot be accepted, the Catholic Church said yesterday. A member of the social communications committee of the Colombo Archdiocese, Rev. Fr. Cyril Gamini, told a press conference yesterday that these police officers are to be promoted at a request made by some senior politicians. “These police…