by Iftikhar A. Khan in Dawn, December 12th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Peoples Party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Monday called for a thorough investigation into the release of terrorists from prisons during the PTI rule, regretting that such a decision was taken without taking the parliament and the nation into loop. Sitting beside caretaker Interior Minister Sarfaraz Bugti during a press conference, the PPP chairman expressed these views while talking to reporters after visiting ‘The Wall of…
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report in The News, August 13, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Saturday claimed to have arrested 21 alleged terrorists of banned militant outfits in intelligence-based operations (IBOs). In a statement, the CTD said it had conducted 135 operations in the province, during which it interrogated 135 suspects and arrested 21 alleged militants. According to the CTD, the arrested men were from Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Sapiah-i-Sahaba Pakistan, Daesh and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, among other banned militant…
Our darkest day
Editorial in The News, December 16, 2023December 16 is a date that Pakistan is not likely to forget, for today marks the ninth anniversary of arguably the darkest chapter in our history. On this day in 2014, heavily armed TTP terrorists stormed the Army Public School in Peshawar and martyred at least 144 people, mostly children. The horrific attack shook the nation to its core, the lives lost that day forever etched into its collective…