By Naveed Hussain in T-magazine, Express Tribune, Dec 31, 2023The recent dramatic uptick in terrorist violence has again shone the spotlight on the safe havens of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terror group in Afghanistan. “Average TTP attacks per month increased from 14.5 in 2020 to 45.8 in 2022 and expanded in geographical scope, reflecting increased operability and improved weaponry acquired when the Afghan government collapsed in August 2021,” according to the Global Conflict Tracker. Official…
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report in The Express Tribune, Dec 12, 2023At least three security personnel were martyred and 12 were injured in a suicide attack in the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P). According to police officials, terrorists attacked security forces billeted at the Daraban School in DI Khan. A vehicle-borne improvised explosive device (VBIED) was rammed in to the building at around 3am, causing it to collapse. Following the car bombing, terrorists entered the school premises.…
By Mariana Baabar in The News, November 29, 2023ISLAMABAD: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday summoned a representative of the Afghan Embassy in Islamabad where Pakistan strongly condemned the suicide attack perpetrated on a security forces convoy in the Bannu district on November 26 by an Afghan national. The foreign office demanded the Afghan interim government to take swift “verifiable actions” against all terrorist groups and their sanctuaries. The envoy was also asked to…
By Isarulhaq in The News online, Sept 29, 2023HANGU: At least five people, including a police officer, lost their lives while several others were injured after a bomb went off inside a mosque during Friday’s sermon, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Hangu, where people were gathered for weekly prayers. The city’s district police officer (DPO) Nisar Ahmed said that the blast took place within the limits of the Doaba police station. Over 30 people have been buried…
Bloomberg report, Aug 7, 2023 at 11.02 AM ISTIn mid-May, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi issued a warning to the Taliban: Honor Afghanistan’s water-supply agreement or face the consequences. A well-known Taliban figure offered a mocking gift of a 20-liter water container in response and told him to stop making terrifying ultimatums. About a week later, a skirmish erupted on the border, leaving two Iranian guards and one Taliban member dead. The Taliban sent thousands of…
By Banafsha Binesh in ToloNews online, July 28, 2023US House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, at a hearing examining the Biden administration’s planning for the US military withdrawal from Afghanistan, said the idea of lowering the number of troops to 650 was “insane,” that “12,000 prisoners” including “suicide bombers” and “ISIS-K” were released from Bagram, and that “$7 billion of equipment” was left behind and is being sold to “our adversaries and to terrorist…
report in The News, July 06, 2023RAWALPINDI: Three soldiers of the Pakistan Army were martyred and three civilians were injured when a suicide bomber exploded himself in the general area of Miran Shah, North Waziristan District, on Wednesday. Naib Subedar Sahib Khan (age 41 years, resident of Mianwali), Naik Muhammad Ibrahim (age 40 years, resident of Dera Ismail Khan) and Sepoy Jahangir Khan (age 24 years, resident of Mardan) embraced Shahadat while three innocent civilians…
By Karoun Demirjian and Eric Schmitt in The NY Times, Apr 26, 2023WASHINGTON — The Taliban have killed the leader of the Islamic State cell responsible for the suicide bombing at the international airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, in August 2021 that killed 13 U.S. troops and as many as 170 civilians, the White House said on Tuesday. Four senior American officials said that U.S. intelligence analysts became aware in early April that the mastermind of…
By Mujeeb Rahman Awrang Stanikzai in TOLOnews, Mar 27,2023 at 8:50 PMAt least six civilians were killed and several others, including three Islamic Emirate forces, were wounded in a suicide attack near a security checkpoint in Malik Asghar Square in Kabul, a spokesman for the Kabul security department, Khalid Zadran said. The eyewitnesses described the incident as a heavy explosion. “It was around 3:00pm. We were at the office of the deputy minister. A blast…
By Zarmeen Zehra in The News, March 20, 2023QUETTA: Security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in the general area of Rehman Kahul, Chaman, and recovered a huge quantity of arms and ammunition, including improvised explosive devices (IEDs), suicide jackets and rockets from suspected terrorists’ hideouts. An IBO was carried out to clear a suspected hideout of terrorists, linked with recent terror incidents, including the planting of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in Chaman and surrounding…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, March 18, 2023PESHAWAR: A senior police official Friday claimed that there was a covering suicide bomber to carry out the attack who would have acted if his accomplice involved in Malik Saad Shaheed Police Lines bombing had failed. “We have arrested a facilitator of the suicide bomber identified as Imtiaz Khan alias Tora Shpa. He himself was a trained suicide bomber and had to blow himself up if…