report in The News, Nov 7, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: In yet another terror attack, two policemen were martyred while three others sustained injuries in Dera Ismail Khan (DI Khan), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday morning. The terrorist attack took place at an oil and gas company in the Drazanda tehsil of DI Khan, said the deputy superintendent of police (DSP). The DSP said that the injured cops and the bodies of the other two have been…
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By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 9th, 2023KARACHI: A policeman was shot dead by unidentified persons when he was returning home after visiting a graveyard on the outskirts of the city on Sunday, police and his relatives said. The SITE-Superhighway Industrial Area police said Sub-Inspector Amir Ali, 52, who was in plain clothes, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen ‘due to unknown reasons’ near Chakar Hotel on the M-9 motorway….. Talking to reporters, SSP-East Syed…
Report in Dawn, Sept 18th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A policeman embraced martyrdom when unknown assailants opened fire at him in Miramshah here on Sunday, officials said. They said constable Famran Jan was targeted when he was coming home after performing duty. They added the unknown assailants managed to flee. They also stated that he police reached the site and started investigating the incident. Meanwhile, funeral of the martyred cop was offered at the police lines. Senior…
report in Dawn, August 22nd, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A levy police personnel was martyred when unknown armed men opened fire on him here on Monday. Police said the incident occurred in Gul Waliabad locality in the area limits of the city police station. They said that levy policeman Jehanzeb Khan, 39, came under fire when he was going to bazaar on his motorcycle for shopping. “The attackers also took away his motorcycle,” they maintained. Moeenuddin, father…
By Rasool Dawar in The News, Aug 7, 2023PESHAWAR: A policeman was martyred and two others suffered injuries when a police mobile was attacked in the Badaber area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Peshawar. The KP province, which borders Afghanistan, has seen a slew of terror incidents in recent months after the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) ended its ceasefire with Islamabad, with other terrorist groups also increasing attacks. Constable Yar Muhammad suffered critical injuries along with two…
report in Dawn, June 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A policeman was martyred during an exchange of fire between police and unidentified assailants in Shahbazkhel area of Lakki Marwat district on Thursday night, an official said. He said a team of Shahbazkhel police post had set up a picket on the Bannu-DI Khan section of the Indus Highway after receiving information that six armed motorcyclists believed to be terrorists were seen roaming in the town. The official…
Report in Dawn, April 22nd, 2023SWABI: A constable, who was seriously injured in a terrorist attack earlier this month, succumbed to injuries in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Friday. Constable Mohammad Tayyab was performing duty at Tordher police station when two unidentified motorcyclists lobbed a grenade at the building on April 9. The policeman along with some civilians was injured. Tayyab’s death took the number of the police personnel martyred in Swabi during Ramazan to…
REPORT in The Express Tribune, March 30th, 2023..A terrorist attack on a police station in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s (K-P) Lakki Marwat in the wee hours of Thursday resulted in the death of at least four policemen, including DSP Iqbal Momand. At around 1 am, the terrorists attacked Saddar police station with modern and heavy weapons. The police personnel, who were already on alert, responded with retaliatory fire due to which the terrorists escaped in the darkness of…
report in Dawn, March 13th, 2023CHARSADDA: A policeman sustained injuries when two persons opened fire at him here on Sunday, the district police chief said. Mohammad Arif said the injured cop was his gunman, Mohammad Bilal. He said the two attackers were also injured and arrested, but one of them escaped from the hospital. DPO Arif said a case had been registered with the Counter Terrorism Department, adding a search operation was launched to arrest…
report in Dawn, March 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Four people including a policeman were killed and six others sustained bullet injuries when unknown assailants opened fire on them near a private school on DI Khan Road in Bannu on Thursday. Police said the incident occurred in the limits of Saddar police station and added that school students were also among the dead and injured….. After the gruesome shooting incident, Bannu regional police chief Syed Ashfaq Anwar…
report in The News, Mar 3, 2023An anti-terrorism court has indicted three alleged facilitators of an IED blast that had killed a woman and injured 11 others, including policemen, in Karachi’s Kharadar area in May last year. The ATC-XVI judge read out charges against three suspects — Dilbar Ali, Abdul Qayyum and Abdul Sattar — said to be associated with the outlawed Sindhudesh Revolutionary Army (SRA). They pleaded not guilty and opted to contest the…