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…
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report in in Dawn, July 29th, 2023SWABI: The police conducted 203 search and strike operations during the last six months under the National Action Plan against suspected terrorists and their facilitators in the Swabi district, arresting 4,208 of them, sources told Dawn here on Friday. During this period, the sources said the police also killed two militants. The sources said a total of 349 FIRs were registered against suspects and their facilitators in different police…
Report in Dawn, April 22nd, 2023SWABI: A constable, who was seriously injured in a terrorist attack earlier this month, succumbed to injuries in Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on Friday. Constable Mohammad Tayyab was performing duty at Tordher police station when two unidentified motorcyclists lobbed a grenade at the building on April 9. The policeman along with some civilians was injured. Tayyab’s death took the number of the police personnel martyred in Swabi during Ramazan to…
Report in Dawn, April 11th, 2023SWABI: A constable was among five people injured when unidentified militants attacked the Tordher police station in Chota Lahor tehsil with a grenade on Sunday night, the police and rescue officials said. District police officer Najamul Hussain said on Monday that the attack occurred three days after an assistant sub-inspector was martyred and two police personnel were injured when militants lobbed grenades onto their car in Yar Hussain area. He…
report in Dawn, March 1st, 2023SWABI: The police arrested 14 suspected militants during an operation conducted on the Karamar Mountain here on Tuesday. District police officer Najamul Husnain told mediapersons that drone technology was used to locate the movement of suspected persons on the mountain. He said since surge in militant activities in the district the police had kept the Karamar Mountain under tight watch. He said personnel of Elite Force, Rapid Response Force, bomb…
report in Dawn, February 5th, 2023SWABI: The police claim to have arrested four militants, including a prayer leader, belonging to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a raid on a house in Hund village here on Friday night, regional police officer (RPO) Mohammad Ali Gandapur said on Saturday. Addressing a press conference, RPO Gandapur accompanied by district police officer Najamul Hussain said the police had also recovered five kilogramme explosives, 26 hand grenades, 46 detonators,…