Report in Pakistan Today, Nov 20, 2023QUETTA/KECH: Three people travelling in a car were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on roadside exploded in Hoshab area of Kech district in Balochistan on Sunday, officials said. Commissioner Mekran Division Saeed Ahmed Umrani confirmed that unidentified terrorists targeted a car using an improvised explosive device (IED) in Hoshab tehsil of district Kech, adding all three persons travelling in the car were killed on the spot.…
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By Saleem Shahid in Dawn, October 9th, 2023QUETTA: An official of the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) lost his life and his driver was critically injured in a roadside blast in the Sor Range coalfield, some 30km from Quetta, on Sunday. PMDC coal project manager Shabar Ali Mirza was on his way to the coal mines from Quetta when his official vehicle was targeted near the hilly region of Sor Range. The explosion was powerful…
by Umer Farooq in Dawn, Sept 12, 2023PESHAWAR: A Frontier Corps (FC) soldier embraced martyrdom and nine others, including three civilians, sustained injuries in a roadside explosion on the outskirts of Peshawar on Monday, police said. The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for carrying out the attack. The FC convoy of Mohmand Rifles was on its way from Michni area of district Mohmand towards the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED)…
Report in Pakistan Today, Mar 31, 2023PESHAWAR: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in a pair of attacks killed four police officers by targeting a police vehicle with a roadside bomb and wounded six in an attack on a police station in Lakki Marwat city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa early Thursday, police said. The bomb killed four officers in a police vehicle carrying reinforcements sent to respond to the attack on a police station in the town bordering…
Report in Dawn, January 4th, 2023LAHORE: In what police claimed an incident of terrorism, two officials of an intelligence agency were shot dead by an unidentified person in the parking of a roadside hotel in Khanewal district on Tuesday. Police said Multan region Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) director Naveed Sadiq and inspector Nasir Abbas were having tea at a roadside hotel on National Highway near Pirowal. Police said both the officials went to the parking…