Report in Dawn, December 27th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Security forces repulsed a militant attack on an army checkpost in Janikhel town of Bannu district on Tuesday night. Official sources said unknown militants attacked the post with heavy weapons, prompting the soldiers to retaliate. They said a fierce gun battle ensured and sounds of explosions were heard in the area. The gunfight continued for some time and the security forces foiled the terror attack gallantly, forcing the…
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report in Dawn, October 30th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Militants equipped with modern weapons attacked Hathala police station in Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan district on Sunday night. However, police repulsed the attack. Around 50 militants equipped with sophisticated weapons, hand grenades and rocket launchers attacked the police station, said officials. They said that police repulsed the attack and militants managed to escape after heavy exchange of heavy fire with the law-enforcers. “No casualties are…
report in Dawn, September 28th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The police claimed to have repulsed terrorist attacks on two police stations and district jail in Lakki Marwat city on Tuesday night. An official said a police station, a police post and the district jail building came under simultaneous attacks. He said the assailants used light and heavy weapons in a bid to breach police installations and the prison. “Policemen deployed there were fully alert as they had…
report in Dawn, August 30th, 2023SWAT: A policeman was critically injured after terrorists attacked the Talegram police station and the adjacent checkpost here on Monday night. Officials said terrorists attacked the police station building located on the main Malam Jabba Road from two sides. They said the personnel responded and repulsed the attack. However, a policeman, Jameeullah, sustained injuries during the exchange of fire with the militants. The law enforcement personnel shifted the injured to…
Report in Dawn, August 15th, 2023PESHAWAR: The police and security forces repulsed three midnight militant attacks at as many locations in the jurisdiction of Mattani police station – an area bordering the Kohat district – some 50 kilometres south of the provincial capital. Police officials said that militants attacked Hameed Khan police post with latest weaponry from a nearby forest. However, they said that the militants could not hit the police post since they were…
By Qayyum Nawaz Babar in The News, March 22, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A cop sustained injuries when a group of terrorists attacked a police check post in Kathi area, police said on Tuesday They said that terrorists attacked Kathi police check post with automatic weapons late Monday night. However, the police promptly returned the fire and a fierce exchange of fire took place between the cops and the terrorists, which continued for some time. As…
by Pazir Gul in Dawn, February 15th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: Seven militants of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed when cops repulsed an attack on a police van carrying three detained militants to Bannu from North Waziristan, the Counterterrorism Department (CTD) said on Tuesday. The three detained militants were also among those killed in the Monday night clash, the CTD said. The CTD said its officials were shifting the three militants from Miramshah to Bannu…
report in The News, Feb 05, 2023PPESHAWAR: Two police outposts in remote areas of the province came under attack on Sunday night but both the attacks were repulsed. The Tank police and locals on late Sunday night repulsed a major attack on Pir Tangi police post in Jandola police station. An official said dozens of militants armed with automatic weapons attacked the Pir Tangi Police post in Jandola, Tank district. “The cops, however, were alert…