Report in Dawn, Dec 27th, 2023KARACHI: The owner of a general store, said to be associated with the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), was shot dead in what police described as a targeted attack in Korangi on Tuesday. Korangi SHO Amin Solangi said that two assailants riding on a motorbike arrived at a shop in Zia Colony, one of them got off the two-wheeler and opened straight fire on Muhammad Saleem, 50. He suffered…
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Report in Dawn, December 6th, 2023KARACHI: A local leader of the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot at and wounded in New Karachi on Tuesday evening, police and his party said. The police said that Bilal Murshid, 30, was targeted by armed assailants riding a motorbike in the Godhra area in Sector 11-G. He suffered five bullet wounds and was taken first to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from where he was moved to…
report in The News, Nov 6, 2023If the Pakhtun community in Karachi is targeted for any reason, the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan (MQM-P) will stand by them. MQM-P Convener Dr Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui said this on Saturday as he addressed a public meeting of the party in the Saeedabad area of Baldia Town. He said that only the two classes of oppressor and oppressed existed in the country today and the MQM-P stood against the former…
report in Dawn, October 30th, 2023BAJAUR: A prayer leader was killed in what police said a targeted attack in Mamond tehsil here on Sunday. Dilawar Khan, SHO Mamond police station, told reporters that unknown assailants fired at Qari Mohammad Qasim, 42, killing him on the spot. He said the locals chased the attackers, but they managed to escape. He said Qasim was a prayer leader at a mosque in his native Laghari area. No one…
By Imtiaz li in Dawn, October 23th, 2023KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and two others were gunned down in suspected targeted attacks in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said. They said that Niaz Husain, 45, was gunned down by armed motorcyclists near Aman Chowk in Khairabad within the remit of the Manghopir police station on Sunday evening. An area police officer, Saeed Wahab, said that the victim was a…
By Imtiaz Ali in Dawn, October 23th, 2023KARACHI: A worker of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Pakistan and two others were gunned down in suspected targeted attacks in different parts of the city on Sunday, police said. They said that Niaz Husain, 45, was gunned down by armed motorcyclists near Aman Chowk in Khairabad within the remit of the Manghopir police station on Sunday evening. An area police officer, Saeed Wahab, said that the victim was a…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Sept 25th, 2023QUETTA: An official was targeted in a gun attack by armed motorcyclists while he was returning home from a Levies Force post in Qila Abdullah, a bordering district with Afghanistan, on Sunday evening. The shooters, equipped with automatic weapons, targeted Levies official Abdul Bari in Mazai Adha area of Qila Abdullah. The personnel deployed at the post immediate returned fire, forcing the motorcyclists to speed away, officials said…..…
(BREAKING NEWS)report in The Express Tribune, Sept 11, 2023At least one Frontier Corps (FC) official died, while 11 people were injured when a blast reportedly targeted a vehicle of security forces in Peshawar’s Warsak road area on Monday. Superintendent Warsak Division, while expressing grief over the tragic incident, alleged that the blast seemed to be an “IED explosion.” However, the nature of the explosion will be confirmed after a Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) report. Officials…
by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, September 1st, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: At least nine soldiers were martyred and five others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber on a motorbike targeted a military convoy in the Janikhel town of Bannu district on Thursday evening, the army said. In a late-night statement, the military’s media wing identified one of the martyred soldiers as Naib Subedar Sanobar Ali. It said the security forces had cordoned off the area and…
Report in Dawn, August 21st, 2023KARACHI: Less than four days after the targeted killing of a local office-bearer of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) in Orangi Town, another activist of the party was shot dead in Ittehad Town in the small hours of Sunday morning, police and party officials said. They added that Shaukat Hammad, 35, was sitting outside his home in Abidabad when assailants on a motorbike killed him. South-DIG Irfan Ali Baloch told…
Educational Inferno
Editorial in The Nation, Dec31, 2023The recent arson attack on a government higher secondary school for girls in Kotka Mambati Barakzai is a reprehensible act that not only undermines educational infrastructure but also poses a threat to the future of young students. Suspected militants targeted the school, located in Miryan tehsil, on Thursday night, setting ablaze the science lab and valuable equipment. This deliberate destruction reflects a distressing disregard for the importance of education and…