report in Dawn, Feb 19, 2023QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police has arrested a woman suspected of planning to carry out a suicide attack and recovered her jacket. The suspected was arrested near a park in Quetta’s Satellite Town when teams of CTD and intelligence agencies conducted an operation in the area against the outlawed Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), a CTD spokesperson said. He added the raid came after intelligence agencies received…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Feb 5th, 2023QUETTA: A tribal elder and the chief of the Rajiha Bugti tribe in Karmanzai was shot dead along with his son by unidentified gunmen in the Dera Bugti district on Saturday. Police officials said the victims — Nihalan Khan and his son Lal Jan — were on their way home in the Patokh area on a motorcycle when they were targeted by the assailants, who were waiting for…
It is getting increasingly certain that the banned militant umbrella cannot stomach being ignored for a single day. The recent bloodbath in Quetta was orchestrated on the heels of a formal announcement to call off the ceasefire in a bid to hit the headlines with far greater vigour. Instead of showing a resolute determination to defend the motherland come what may, the state continues to dilly-dally; throwing a spree of ambiguous buzzwords in a desperate…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 1st, 2022• ASI, woman and her two children martyred near Quetta• 24 injured as bomber smashes rickshaw into police truck• DIG says 25kg explosives used in suicide jacket QUETTA: At least four people were killed and 24 others injured on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a police truck in Baleli area, some 15 kilometres from the provincial capital, on the Quetta-Chaman national highway. A policeman was among those…