Report in Dawn, November 13th, 2023NAWABSHAH: A gang of dacoits kidnapped two policemen after an encounter at a picket near Tharu Shah town of Naushahro Feroze district on Sunday. A little later, they killed one of them and wounded the other. Bhria City DSP Habibur Rehman Lashari told the media that constables Jabir Rajput and Sudhir Larik had signalled the suspects to stop but they opened fire, which was returned. He said the gang overpowered…
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Report in Dawn, Sept 13th, 2023QUETTA: Four people, including two policemen, were injured in two hand grenade attacks on police vehicles on Tuesday. Officials said unknown miscreants riding motorcycles hurled a grenade at a patrolling police vehicle in the Sariab Road area. However, it missed the target and exploded away from the vehicle. Police personnel travelling in the vehicle remained safe, but two passers-by, identified as Niazullah and Karim Nawaz, were injured in the grenade…
report in Dawn, August 27th, 2023KURRAM: Two police personnel were wounded after an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a police vehicle, followed by an exchange of fire between suspected militants and the police on Saturday. Station House Officer Sadda Khalil Khan reported that a police van was patrolling in the area when the IED went off. He added that two police personnel, Habibur Rehman and Zakir Masozai, sustained injuries. “After the explosion, the police…
Report in Dawn, August 10th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A policeman accompanying a polio team was martyred when unidentified miscreants targeted him in Miryan area of Bannu district on Wednesday, an official said. He said lower head constable (LHC) Kamran Khan was on the security duty with polio workers in Akhundkhel area when he came under the attack. The official said Kamran received serious bullet wounds and was rushed to a hospital where he was declared dead…….…
Report in Dawn, May 1st, 2023SUKKUR: Gangsters believed to be members of the notorious Mitho Shah gang abducted two policemen along with their official weapons after storming the Khalid Nawaz Jakhrani check-post in the Jagir area within the jurisdiction of the Mauladad police station in Jacobabad district late on Saturday night. Jacobabad SSP Dr Sumair Noor Channa denied reports of the abduction but later a video uploaded on social media by Mitho Shah confirmed the…
By Essa Khankhel & Mehboob Ali in The News, April 25, 2023MINGORA/ISLAMABAD: At least 13 people, majority of them believed to be policemen, were killed and 42 others injured in two mysterious explosions at the heavily-guarded Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) police station in Kabal town of Swat district on Monday. “The explosions took place at the CTD Police Station in Kabal in which 13 policemen were killed and 42 injured,” a senior police official told The…
Report in The News, April 12, 2023QUETTA: Four policemen were martyred during an intelligence-based operation in Quetta on Tuesday. The attack took place in the Kuchlak area near Quetta during a search operation launched following Monday’s bombing, Chief Minister Abdul Quddus Bizenjo said. “The officers who were martyred during the encounter with the terrorists set an example of courage and bravery,” he said in a statement. Zohaib Moshin, a senior superintendent of police (operations), said…
Report in The News, April 11, 2023QUETTA: In the latest terror incident, four people – including two policemen – were martyred Monday after an explosion near a police vehicle in the city’s Shahrah-e-Iqbal area. Officials told Geo News that at least 15 people were also injured in the blast which left several cars and motorcycles in the vicinity damaged. The bodies have been shifted to the Civil Hospital, hospital administration said. Those killed in the…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, April 04, 2023PESHAWAR: As many as 127 policemen were martyred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in various attacks in the first three months of the current year. According to an official, 116 of them were martyred in January, two died in February and nine lost lives in March. At least four deputy superintendents of police (DSPs) and some junior officers were among those martyred in attacks during the first quarter…
By Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, March 31st, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A deputy superintendent of police (DSP), along with his three gunmen, was martyred in an attack targeting a police vehicle in Lakki Marwat in the early hours of Thursday. According to details, militants stormed the Saddar police station on the Bannu-Mianwali road near Chawkijand area when personnel inside the station called for reinforcements. DSP Iqbal Momand, who responded to the call, was on his way…
by Irfan Mughal | Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, March 14th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN / LAKKI MARWAT: Two policemen embraced martyrdom and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat while a militant was shot dead in a security forces operation in Dera Ismail Khan district on Monday. A police van came under attack in the Kot-Azam area of Tank district while it…