report in The Express Tribune, Mar 8, 2023QUETTA: Islamic State claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing attack in Balochistan that left nine policemen dead on Monday, according to the SITE Intelligence Group. At least nine personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary embraced martyrdom and 13 others were injured on Monday after a suicide bomber riding an explosives-laden motorbike struck a police truck on the Sukkur-Quetta Highway in the Bolan district — about 120km from Quetta. The…
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report in Prothom Alo, Mar 4, 2023A 28-year-old was killed and at least 50 were injured, including nine policemen, in clashes that broke out between police and certain religious elements in Panchagarh as the latter brought out a rally demanding a halt to the gathering of the Ahmadiyyas, a sect of Islam formed by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. A total of 17 platoons of BGB have been deployed in Panchagarh city area to evade further tension,…
report in The Nation line, Feb 27, 2023 at 10:05 AMTwo policemen were injured when heavily armed terrorists attacked Rohri check post in Dera Ismail Khan District last night. According to police spokesman, the police team retaliated forcefully but the terrorists managed to escape under cover of darkness. Meanwhile, District Police Officer Abdul Rauf Babar Qaiserani, along with a Pakistan army team, reached the site and initiated an investigation into the incident.https://www.nation.com.pk/27-Feb-2023/2-policemen-injured-in-terrorists-attack-on-rohri-check-post-in-d-i-khan
By Qazi Fazlullah in The News, Jan 20, 2023In a terrorist attack on a police check-post in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Khyber Agency Thursday at least three policemen were martyred. Terrorists opened fire on the check-post in Tekhta Beg and used explosive material in the attack, after which the police station caught fire, according to the local police. The exchange of fire between the police force and terrorists still continues. Immediately after the attack, the traffic on…
report in Dawn, December 28th, 2022Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah said on Tuesday that the suspects involved in the suicide attack in Islamabad last week — that left a policeman martyred and several injured — have been arrested. The incident, in which four police officers and two civilians were injured, took place in Islamabad’s I-10/4 sector on December 23. The police had said that a suicide attacker, riding a cab, blew himself up after the vehicle…
Years after we thought the war against militants had been won, and were reminded of this success repeatedly, it seems the battle is still very much on. In a new series of attacks which have torn apart law and order in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and specifically the former tribal areas, four policemen were killed on Sunday during an attack on a police station in the Lakki Marwat area, when militants laid siege to the building and…