Report in Dawn, July 25th, 2023PESHAWAR: Unidentified gunmen killed an official of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Public Service Commission in the limits of the Shahpur police station here on Monday morning, officials said. They said Arshad Khan, a resident of Charsadda district, who was serving as the commission’s director examination, was travelling to his office along with his driver when he came under attack. Aftab Khan, an official at the Shahpur police station, said Ismail Khan,…
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report in The News, June 26, 2023PESHAWAR: A police constable was shot and injured at Khan Mast Colony in the limits of the Agha Mir Jani Shah (formerly Yakatoot) police station on Sunday. The police said constable Farman performs duty at the University Town police station. He was on leave and travelling in a car when armed men opened fire on his car. The attackers escaped after the firing. The senior police officials and investigation…
By Fazal Khaliq | Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, April 25th, 2023SWAT / LAKKI MARWAT: At least a dozen people, including police officials, lost their lives in a powerful explosion inside the Kabal police station late on Monday evening. According to hospital sources, at least 57 people — including three civilians — sustained injuries in the blast. The explosion that rocked the police station, which reportedly occurred on the premises of the Counter Terrorism Department…
By Nazim Qasimi in ToloNews, April 6, 2023 at 10:21 PMThe Sada-e-Banwan radio station in the northern province of Badakhshan resumed broadcasting after a weeklong suspension.Sada-e- Banwan, the women-dedicated radio station, was closed by the Islamic Emirate over a week ago due to the broadcast of music. “We referred to the office of the information and culture department and we made a commitment that we will attempt to prevent such violations, which are considered one…
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…
By Shiran Ranasinghe in The Island, Mar 30, 2023 A significant number of fuel filling station owners had stopped placing orders with the Ceylon Petroleum Corporation (CPC) due to an announcement by Energy Minister Kanchana Wijesekera that fuel prices would be significantly reduced in the first week of April. According to a spokesperson for the Fuel Distributors’ Association of the CPC, a reduction of approximately Rs 100 per litre of fuel would result in a…
report in TOLOnews, Feb 13, 2023 at 9:22 PMOn World Radio Day, the Ministry of Information and Culture reported that 200 radio stations are now operating across the country. According to this ministry, 44 radio stations have stopped operating due to economic problems in the past 18 months. “There are now more than 200 operating radio stations in Afghanistan. After the Islamic Emirate came to power, 44 radio stations ceased operations,” said Abdulhaq Hemad, director…
Report in Dawn, Feb 8th, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Police repulsed an attack on a security checkpoint in Hathala Tuesday late night. Police officials said the armed terrorists attacked the Hathala post of Kulachi police station and exchanged fire with security forces for half an hour. A heavy contingent of police reached the spot and returned fire, forcing the attackers to flee, they added. They said police launched a search operation in the area. This was…
by Asif Chaudhry in Dawn, February 1st, 2023LAHORE: A day after a deadly suicide bombing in Peshawar claimed over 100 lives, a police station in Mianwali came under a gun attack by a group of heavily armed militants belonging to banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Tuesday night. However, police claimed late at night the attack had been repulsed. The attack is significant in that terrorists — who had so far targeted police stations and check…
Report in Dawn, Jan 20th, 2023KARACHI: The FIR of an alleged attack on Ahmadiyya community’s place of worship in the Martin Quarters area was lodged at the Jamshed Quarters police station on Thursday. Zaheer Ahmed, a member of the Ahmadiyya Centre, lodged the complaint stating that he was present in his private office in Clifton at around 3:45pm on Wednesday (Jan 18) when he received the information that some 10-12 people wielding sticks etc had…
report in Dawn, January 17th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: Mobile van of the Lakki Marwat city police station narrowly escaped a bomb blast here on Monday. An official said unknown miscreants had planted an improvised explosive device under a culvert on the Old Kutchery Road to target a police patrolling party. He said the area where the bomb was planted was at a stone’s throw from the city police station and the tehsil building housing offices of…