Report in The News, November 19th, 2023RAWALPINDI: Security forces killed four terrorists, including a High Value Target (HVT), during the conduct of an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in North Waziristan on Saturday. Security forces conducted an operation in general area, Khaisoor, North Waziristan District, on reported presence of terrorists, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) in a statement said. Troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location as a result of which four terrorists were sent to hell,…
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by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, November 19th, 2023QUETTA: The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP), rejecting the committee on missing persons headed by caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti, staged a demonstration in front of the Press Club on Saturday. The relatives and heirs of missing persons chanted slogans, while carrying placards and banners inscribed with their demands for the recovery of all missing persons. The protest was led by Nasarullah Baloch and Mama Qadeer. Speaking…
report in Dawn,November 12th, 2023BAJAUR: A man was injured when a bomb went off in Mamond tehsil of the Bajaur tribal district on Saturday, the police and residents of the area said. They said that the blast occurred in the hilly Ghakhi area. They added that the bomb planted along a way was detonated with the help of a remote control. One person identified as Abdur Rehman, a resident of Ghakhi locality, was wounded in…
by Muhammad Irfan Mughal in Dawn, Nov 12th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Three police personnel, including a station house officer (SHO), were martyred and five others including a deputy superintendent of police, sustained injuries in a militant attack on police in Kari Shah Noor area of district Tank on Saturday. Police spokesperson informed that DSP Chan Shah was leading a police party to arrest kidnappers of a woman in Shah Noor village when unidentified assailants opened…
report in Khaama Press online, Nov 4, 2023A high-level delegation from the de facto administration of Afghanistan, under the leadership of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs, embarked on a significant diplomatic mission to Iran on Saturday. The official statement from Baradar’s office highlights the primary agenda of the delegation’s trip, which revolves around engaging in discussions with Iranian officials. The topics on the table include a broad spectrum of issues…
By Partha Pratim Bhattacharjee in The Daily Star, Oct 30, 2023The way the events unfolded on Saturday has given the Awami League rank and file a confidence boost, claim leaders of the ruling party. They said the kind of momentum BNP tried to gather with its grand rally did not come to pass, and it has “hurt the morale of the party activists”. The violence that took place that day was mostly between BNP and…
Report in Business Recorder, Oct 21, 2023LAHORE: All is set for the return of PML-N supremo to the country and a big power show of the party at Minar-e-Pakistan on Saturday (today). Nawaz Sharif, who is in Dubai, will travel to Pakistan in a charter plane on Saturday. He would reach Lahore Fort through a helicopter to attend the PML-N public meeting at Minar-e-Pakistan. The PML-N supremo is returning to the country after ending his…
report in Dawn, October 15th, 2023MANSEHRA: Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf Parliamentarians’ chairman Pervez Khattak on Saturday insisted his party would form the next government in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Speaking at a public gathering in Pattan, the district headquarters of Lower Kohistan, he claimed he helped Imran Khan establish his party’s government in KP twice. Former chief minister Mahmood Khan and PTI-P Hazara division president Salah Mohammad Khan also spoke. Mr Khattak claimed when he was the chief minister…
By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, October 9, 2023Ten Nepali students have been killed while four others were injured in armed attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel on Saturday. …. As per the Nepali embassy in Tel Aviv, one student is still missing. While the attack spread terror across the country, 17 Nepali students in Kibbutz Alumim, an area near the Gaza Strip, came under direct attack by the militants. Of…
report in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023SWABI: A member of Awami National Party (ANP) provincial council was shot dead by two unidentified motorcyclists here on Saturday. Javed Khan, 55, was the eldest son of Sher Hassan, a retired police officer and a member of Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan’s Caravan. DSP Jawad Khan said that preliminary investigation made clear that the ANP leader was shot at from a very close range by the assailants. They moved close…
by Zulqernain Tahir | Atika Rehman in Dawn, Oct 1st, 2023LAHORE / LONDON: After in-depth discussions on the issue with the party’s second-tier leadership at two separate meetings, the PML-N on Saturday declared that supreme leader Nawaz Sharif is ready to face “all kinds of circumstances” upon his return from London on Oct 21. A day after senior leader Ishaq Dar announced they would no longer be demanding for accountability of elements behind the elder…