Report in Dawn, June 4, 2023 LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested six suspects belonging to different banned outfits during operations in different areas of Punjab. According to the spokesman, the Punjab CTD conducted 39 intelligence based operations (IBOs) in different districts of the province, interrogating 40 suspects and arresting six militants allegedly affiliated with different banned outfits, recovering weapons, explosives and other prohibited materials from them. Those arrested…
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By Arshad Dogar in The News, Mar 13, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department arrested four suspects in 45 combing operations in different parts of the province on Sunday. According to the Punjab CTD spokesman, the police conducted 45 combing operations in various districts of the province with the help of local police and security agencies and arrested four suspected persons and registered cases against them. Giving details of the operations, the spokesperson said that…
Editorial in Dawn, March 11th, 2023THE riverine areas where the borders of Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan meet have long been a haven for criminal gangs, and frequent armed operations by the state have failed to permanently dislodge the outlaws from their redoubts. Yet another operation is being planned, this time by the Sindh government, to address the problem of criminal gangs in the upper reaches of the province. The Sindh cabinet on Thursday decided that…
Report in Dawn, March 11th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department claims to have arrested 12 suspects belonging to the defunct organisations from across Punjab. A spokesperson for the department said the CTD conducted 59 intelligence-based operations across the province to avert any untoward incident. During raids, 61 suspects were interrogated. He said CTD teams managed to arrest 12 suspects belonging to various banned militant organisations, including the TTP. They included Irshadullah, Muhammad Luqman Shahid, Anas…
report in The Nation online, Mar 10, 2023 at 11:14 AMThe Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday apprehended 12 terrorists belonging to banned outfits, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda group, during multiple operations in Punjab. According to details, CTD conducted a grand operation on the hideouts of terrorists in several districts of Punjab including Lahore, Sargodha and arrested 12 terror suspects. During the operation in Lahore, forces arrested three terrorists belonging to banned TTP, said…
report in The News, March 6th, 2023LAHORE: Caretaker Punjab Minister for Information and Culture Aamir Mir has said that on March 8 in Lahore, full security will be provided to the participants of the Aurat March by the police and the safety of women participating in the march would be ensured. The organisers of the march had demanded protection for participants of the march, to which the provincial minister assured the organisers that the government…
report in The Nation, Mar 5, 2023LAHORE – The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab has arrested eight alleged terrorists of banned outfits during intelligence based operations across Punjab. According to the spokesman, the CTD Punjab conducted 31 intelligencebased operations in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any untoward incident of terrorism, in which 33 suspected persons were interrogated and eight alleged terrorists were arrested with weapons, explosives and other prohibited materials. He…
Report in Dawn, Feb 12th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have killed a suspected terrorist allegedly belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in an encounter and arrested 11 other members of banned outfits from different cities during intelligence-based operations (IBOs) across Punjab. According to a spokesperson, the Punjab CTD conducted 26 IBOs in different districts of the province to counter the menace of terrorism and interrogated 26 suspects. During…
Report in Dawn, Feb 5th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested 10 members of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda from different areas of the province. The CTD conducted extensive 20 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different districts across the province to avert any untoward incident. The CTD arrested 10 suspects belonging to TTP and Al-Qaeda/LeJ during the IBOs. The suspects were identified as Abdul Rehman, Roid Khan, Hanifullah…
By Khalid Bhatti in The News, Jan 16, 2023The writer is a freelance journalist.The battle for Punjab has entered a decisive phase. Not only did Chief Minister Punjab Parvez Elahi successfully win the vote of confidence from the Punjab Assembly but he also advised the Punjab governor to dissolve the provincial assembly. According to the constitution, the Punjab Assembly stands dissolved from January 14 regardless of the Punjab governor’s notification. The PTI had already confirmed…
That sinking feeling: An election that no one wants?
by M A Niazi in Pakistan Today, Jan 20, 2023“When the Assembly is dissolved, you get a sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach. You are faced with another election.” Thus spoke a Punjab MPA in 1990, when reacting to the dissolution of the Punjab Assembly. That member never made it back to the Assembly. That dissolution had come after President Ghulam Ishaq Khan had used his powers under Article 58 (2-b) of the…