report in Dawn, January 17th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Mobile van of the Lakki Marwat city police station narrowly escaped a bomb blast here on Monday. An official said unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device under a culvert on the Old Kutchery Road to target a police patrolling party. He said the area where the bomb was planted was at a stone’s throw from the city police station and the tehsil building housing offices of…
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Once again, the TTP has claimed an attack that illustrates how the group has become more audacious as it targeted the Sarband police station at the outskirts of Peshawar. A senior police officer along with two two constables embraced martyrdom in a midnight militant attack, which officials believe is the first of its kind where modern gadgets were used to target police. While the five attackers managed to flee in the dark—as has been witnessed…
Report in Dawn, January 14th, 2023DERA GHAZI KHAN: A police official and a civilian were killed, and one police official was injured in a drive-by attack by two motorcyclists at the Jhangi police checkpoint, Vehowa tehsil of Taunsa Sharif district, and escaped. According to sources, the gunmen attacked the Punjab police off-road border checkpoint and killed police official Mazar and one unidentified passer-by. Ramzan, a policeman, was injured. The attack was carried out by unidentified…
report in The News on line, Jan 14, 2023An overnight terrorist attack left three police, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), dead in Peshawar. The assault took place in Peshawar’s suburban area where terrorists ambushed the Sarband police station in Saturday’s early hours, leaving three police personnel, inlcuding DSP Badaber Sardar Hussain. Senior superintendent of police operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi confirmed that police station Sarband came under attack with grenades and sniper guns fitted…
Report in Dawn, January 9th, 2023PESHAWAR: Unidentified persons hurled a grenade on the house of a nephew of MNA Nasir Musazai here on Sunday. The inmates, however, remained unhurt in the attack, the police said. “House of Mr Taimur, who is nephew of MNA Nasir Musazai, was targeted with a hand grenade. However, all his family members remained unhurt,” a police official said, adding that a search operation had been launched in the area to…
by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, January 7th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Two police personnel and a civilian embraced martyrdom and a traffic warden sustained bullet injuries in three militant attacks in Lakki Marwat district. According to the police, 40-year-old head constable Younas Khan and his 46-year-old friend Asmatullah lost their lives when armed motorcyclists attacked them near the Paharkhel Thall area. “As soon as Younas Khan and Asmatullah riding a motorcycle reached Manjiwala link road from…
Report in Dawn, january 7th, 2023PESHAWAR: The station house officer of the Mattani police station here sustained bullet injuries when unknown motorcyclists opened fire in a bazaar on Friday. The police station’s additional Muharrar Noor Zeb said SHO Imranuddin was patrolling in the area when armed motorcyclists opened fire, injuring him and a passer-by. “Both the police officer and the passerby were immediately shifted to a local hospital, where they are out of danger,” Mr…
by Muhammad Irfan Mughal | Umer Farooq | Dilawar Wazir in Dawn, January 6th, 2023• Eleven, including key TTP commander and would-be suicide bombers, said to be among dead• Locals, police repulse attack on Lakki Marwat police station PESHAWAR / D.I. KHAN: A day after Pakistan vowed to take pre-emptive measures to avert terrorist attacks, security forces killed 11 militants, including a key commander of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, in a raid in South Waziristan,…
report in The News, January 05, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) and police have arrested two terrorists who had entered Islamabad to attack the Parliament House building, the CTD sources said. Four detonators, Prima Cord and 500gm explosive material were recovered from the terrorists and a case was registered against them under sections 7 ATA, 13/20/65 AO, 120/B, PPC and 4/5 ESA. The terrorists identified as Danyal alias Zulfiqar from Swabi and Mohammad Zubair…
Report in Dawn, January 4th, 2023LAHORE: In what police claimed an incident of terrorism, two officials of an intelligence agency were shot dead by an unidentified person in the parking of a roadside hotel in Khanewal district on Tuesday. Police said Multan region Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) director Naveed Sadiq and inspector Nasir Abbas were having tea at a roadside hotel on National Highway near Pirowal. Police said both the officials went to the parking…
by Buddhika Samaraweera in The Morning, Jan 4, 2023Former State Intelligence Service (SIS) Director, Senior Deputy Inspector General of Police (SDIG) Nilantha Jayawardena, against whom criminal proceedings were recommended by the Presidential Commission of Inquiry (CoI) that investigated into the Easter Sunday terror attacks of 2019, and who later became a State witness in the cases pertaining to the same, has been promoted to the post of Acting SDIG – Administration. When contacted by The…