report in The News, Dec 25, 2022DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Suspected militants attacked a patrolling van of the police in the limits of Kulachi Police Station here on Saturday, however, no loss of life was reported in the incident, sources said. The sources said that the cops were conducting patrolling in the limits of Kulachi Police Station when the attack took place. The cops also returned the fire. No loss of life was reported in the…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, December 25th, 2022QUETTA: Five security personnel were martyred and one was injured in separate attacks in Chaman and Turbat on Saturday, police and official sources have confirmed. Official sources said unknown militants attacked a vehicle of Frontier Corps Balochistan (South) in the Dannuk Gogdan area of Turbat in Kech district. The FC personnel engaged the attackers and after a heavy exchange fire, four embraced martyrdom, including a subedar. The martyred…
The tense situation in Bannu after militants took control of a police compound has naturally sent alarm bells ringing, shortly after the brazen attack on a police outpost in Lakki Marwat. In this instance, reports allege that apprehended suspects from inside the compound somehow took control, but the TTP has already taken responsibility for the incident. There is no denying that the increasing frequency and scale of terror attacks in the country is cause for…
Report in Dawn, December 20th, 2022PESHAWAR: A Sub-Inspector of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was martyred in an attack occurred in the jurisdiction of Mathra police station here on Monday. According to the police, Shaukat Mehboob, an IB Sub-Inspector, was on his way back home after buying essentials from the market when unidentified men opened fire at him. The officials said that the area had been cordoned off and a search operation was launched to trace…
report in Daily Asian Age, Dec 18, 2022Police have found evidence of supporting and funding the new militant outfit Jamatul Ansar Fil Hindal Sharqiya by Ameer(chief) of Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami Shafiqur Rahman, said the DMP chief on Saturday. Dhaka Metropolitan Police Commissioner Khandker Golam Faruq said that the Jamaat Ameer’s son got involved with the militant outfit and later he supported and funded them willingly. He made the comment in reply to a question while briefing…
report in Dawn, December 17th, 2022SWABI: Two unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade at the Kalu Khan police station here on Friday. When contacted, police officials said that two motorcyclists stopped their motorcycle on Swabi-Mardan road and threw a hand grenade at the gate of the police station, but it did not explode. The CCTV footage shows that the attackers were two and they escaped on their motorcycle after throwing the grenade. This was the…
by Naeem Sahoutara in Dawn, Dec 16th, 2022KARACHI: The Charsadda (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) police interrogated MNA from South Waziristan Ali Wazir in the central prison here on Thursday in the sixth sedition case lodged against him some two years ago, Dawn learnt on Thursday. He was shown arrested by the Charsadda police, who obtained permission from judges of Karachi’s two antiterrorism courts (X and XII) on an application moved by Inspector Ghulam Ali of the Parang…
Edit in Daily Times, Dec 13, 2022Just a week after Karachi East Zone Police had made the headlines for all the wrong reasons, another overambitious police officer (this time, in Kasur) was ready to script out a fake encounter so that his newly-minted SHO belt could boast of a shiny notch. Thankfully this time, a viral audio recording of his designs to trap a proclaimed offender and “shoot him dead” in so-called retaliation found its…
report in Dawn, December 13th, 2022DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A police officer was injured when two unidentified attackers opened fire on Takwara checkpost in Kulachi tehsil, police said here on Monday. A police official told Dawn that two unknown motorcyclists fired at ASI Shah Waliullah, who was going to check the ongoing work at Takwara post in Kulachi police station limits, injuring the officer. After committing the crime, the accused managed to escape from the spot,…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 13, 2022Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami ameer (chief) Shafiqur Rahman was picked up by detective branch (DB) of police from his residence in Dhaka in the small hours of Tuesday, alleged the party. Prothom Alo could not immediately talk to DB officials regarding the allegation of Jamaat-e-Islami. Jamaat-e-Islami leaders said the DB men ransacked the home before picking Shafiqur Rahman up at around 2:00am Tuesday. The DB men also snatched the mobile phone…
report in Prothom Alo, Dec 8, 2022The Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) will stage demonstrations in all cities and district towns on Thursday to protest “barbaric” police action and mass arrests of the party’s leaders and activists in front of its Naya Paltan central office on Wednesday. Party standing committee took the decision at an emergency meeting at night, said a press release. Following the police action at Naya Paltan, the BNP standing committee, the highest…