by Muqaddam Khan | Muhammad Irfan Mughal in Dawn, Jan 31, 2023SWABI/DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Four alleged militants were killed and another surrendered to the police during intelligence-based operations in Swabi and Dera Ismail Khan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Monday. According to Swabi District Police Officer Najamul Hassan, two militants blew themselves up and a third surrendered to police after law enforcement personnel encircled their hideout in Chota Lahor tehsil. Officials in Swabi said the…
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by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, January 2nd, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A police constable embraced martyrdom and a terrorist was killed after a police checkpoint in Shahbazkhel town of Lakki Marwat district was attacked by suspected terrorists with sophisticated weapons on Sunday. Just a day earlier a clash between security forces and terrorists in Janikhel area of Bannu had left four terrorists dead and a soldier martyred. A police official said that policeman Tehseenullah was martyred…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2023CHARSADDA: A constable was martyred when unidentified assailants opened fire at him in the limits of Omarzai police station here on Saturday. Officials said Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) constable Muzammil Shah was travelling on a motorcycle in Jarra locality of Omarzai when some attackers travelling in a car opened fire at him, killing him instantly. The officials said the martyred constable was the gunner of FRP deputy commandant. Soon after…
report in Dawn, December 31st, 2022DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Four policemen were injured when a group of terrorists attacked a checkpost with rockets and grenades in Kulachi tehsil here on Friday, an official said. District police spokesman Yaqoob Shah told Dawn that an unknown number of militants stormed the Takwarra checkpost early in the morning. He said the police personnel retaliated the attack, and after an intense exchange of fire, the militants escaped the scene. The…
Report in The Nation, Dec 30, 2022LAKKI MARWAT – At least 123 terrorists, including nine having head money, were arrested and 93 were killed in encounters by police in Bannu region during 2022, said Bannu Regional Police Officer Syed Ashfaq Anwar in a statement on Thursday. The RPO said a number of terror acts and crime incidents were prevented in Bannu, Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan districts through proactive policing. “The approach also helped to…
report in Dawn, Dec 29, 2022TAXILA: A chief editor of a local newspaper, his gunman and driver were shot dead near Marri village in the limits of Attock police station on Wednesday, police said. According to family sources, chief editor of a local newspaper Arshad Jaffari was going to his office along with his driver, Akhter Nawaz, and gunman, Nazam Khan, after meeting with the district police officer Attock, sharing details with him about the…
report in The Island, Dec 29, 2022The Kelaniya Police Division has recorded the highest number of crimes so far this year with 2,287 incidents, says a survey conducted by the University of Peradeniya. The Anuradhapura Police Division has come second with 2,058 crimes, while the Nugegoda Police Division reported 2,018 crimes, Prof. Wasantha Athukorala of Department of Economics of the Peradeniya University says. Over 1,000 crimes have been reported from the police divisions of Negombo,…
Report IN PAKISTAN Today, DEC 28, 2022RAWALPINDI: The Rawalpindi Police on the directions of City Police Officer (CPO) Syed Shehzad Nadeem Bukhari, conducted a search operation in Chauntra area, arrested some 13 suspects and recovered a large quantity of arms and ammunition. The search operation was conducted on houses in the vicinity of private housing societies, the Police spokesperson said. The search operation was headed by SDPO Saddar Waqar Azim, SHO Chauntra, SHO Chakri and…
report in Prothom Alo,Dec 28, 2022Police on Tuesday claimed that they have found involvement of the assistant personal secretary (APS) of late former railway minister, Suranjit Sengupta, in snatching two militants away from court premises in broad daylight. The APS, Omar Faruk Talukder, was arrested six days ago and taken to remand twice for four days where the counter terrorism investigation unit of Dhaka Metropolitan Police (DMP) interrogated him. Additional commissioner of DMP, Md Asaduzzaman,…
By Rathindra Kuruwita in The Island, Dec 27, 2022About 497 Sri Lankans have been killed in violence during the first 11 months of 2022, according to crime statistics released by the police. Out of them, 223 deaths were caused by shooting and assault. About 3,596 instances of kidnappings with the intention of collecting ransoms have been recorded. This is a 2,800 percent increase from the same period last year, when there were only 835 such…
report in Dawn, December 25th, 2022LAKKI MARWAT: A counter-terrorism department (CTD) constable survived an armed attack in Bachkan Ahmadzai village of Lakki Marwat, said a police official on Saturday. The official said that CTD constable Samiullah was going to a football ground in the village when armed men opened fire on him. He said that the constable remained unhurt and later armed villagers formed a ‘lashkar’ and chased the attackers. “A large contingent of police…