report in Dawn, October 15th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: The security forces killed six militants and injured eight others in an intelligence-based operation in the Mir Ali town of North Waziristan district on Saturday, the military’s media wing said. “Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorists, who remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and target killing of innocent civilians,” the ISPR said. A soldier was also martyred in the incident, the…
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by Raheed Ejaz in Prothom Alo, Aug 25, 2023Exactly six years ago on this day (25 August), thousands of Rohingya men and women crossed the border over from Myanmar’s Rakhine state into Bangladesh, in a bid to save their lives. Over the next few months, at least 700,000 Rohingya crossed the Naf river and took shelter in Bangladesh, fleeing from the atrocities of the Myanmar armed forces. Even back then it had been feared that…
By Nazir Shinwari in ToloNews, Aug 7, 2023 at 10:18 PMOfficials at the Academy of Science of Afghanistan said that a plan for the reopening of schools for girls above grade six is being discussed by Islamic Emirate officials. Speaking at a press conference of the organization’s annual activities, the officials of the Academy of Science of Afghanistan, said that at least 46 projects of scientific research have been completed. “The issue to which you…
report in Prothom Alo, July 4, 2023As many as 119 journalists were harassed in different ways — being tortured, threatened and accused in cases — for playing their professional roles in the last six months of 2023 — between January and June; of them, the highest 29 in Dhaka followed by 8 in Chattogram and Cumilla each. Ain o Salish Kendra (ASK) revealed these statistics on Monday in a six-month human rights report, prepared on…
report in Dawn, June 18th, 2023LAHORE: Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested six alleged militants of banned outfits during operations in different areas of the province. According to a spokesman, the Punjab CTD conducted 55 intelligence based operations (IBOs) in different districts of the province to effectively deal with any incident of terrorism, interrogating 50 suspects and arresting six alleged militants with weapons, explosives and other prohibited materials. He says those arrested…
report in The News, Feb 25, 2023KOHAT: The officials of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday arrested six alleged terrorists of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in a raid here. The sources said that acting on a tip-off the CTD personnel raided the alleged hideout of the TTP men and made the arrests. The arrested Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan men also included a commander identified as Mohammad Kamal alias Rocketi. The arrested persons, who were shifted to…