by Umer Farooq in Dawn, February 21st, 2023PESHAWAR: A senior security official in the provincial capital has revealed that the militants are spending the money extorted from the people to carry out their activities in the country. He told Dawn on condition of anonymity that the extortion demands totalled around Rs1.06 billion as indicated by the complaints lodged by the police. The official said that the amount was much higher than reported because many people…
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by Ikram Junaidi in Dawn, February 2nd, 2023ISLAMABAD: As Pakistan reeled from the terror wave, January 2023 remained one of the deadliest months since July 2018, as 134 people lost their lives — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 militant attacks across the country. According to statistics released by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), an Islamabad-based think-tank, the pattern of terrorist attacks continued…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, January 7th, 2023ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday sought the cooperation of provinces to eliminate terrorism that has reemerged in the country, and asked for support from the business community to make the National Energy Conservation Plan (NECP) a success. Presiding over a meeting on security, the PM emphasised the need for enhancing coordination among the federal and provincial institutions to wipe out terrorism from the country. “Terrorists…
report in The News, Jan 6, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab arrested 12 terror suspected persons from different parts of the province during the last week. CTD spokesperson on Thursday said that the CTD Punjab, in the wake of current wave of terrorism, conducted extensive and coordinated Combing Operations across the Punjab to avert any untoward incident on the directions of IG Police Punjab. He said the CTD Punjab conducted 39 Combing &…
By Editorial in The News, Jan 31, 2023A city that has seen bloodshed to last a hundred lifetimes seems to be back in the middle of a terror onslaught. At least 44 people were martyred and 157 injured in a suicide attack inside a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines area yesterday. There are fears that the number of casualties may increase. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for what seems to have been a suicide…
by Imran Mukhtar in The Nation, Jan 1, 2023ISLAMABAD – The year 2022 has seen the highest number of militant attacks in Pakistan during the last five years as the terror incidents increased by 28 percent compared to 2021. The country has also witnessed four times more suicide attacks in 2022 than in 2021. In 2022, Pakistan faced at least 15 suicide bombings while in 2021; only four suicide attacks were reported. This is the…
Report in Dawn, January 1st, 2023ISLAMABAD: The year 2022 ended with the deadliest month for Pakistan’s security personnel over a decade with the emergence of a new terror triad, comprising Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Daesh-Afghanistan. In 2023, Pakistan is likely to endure more violence, a report released by the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) stated. Security forces lost at least 282 personnel in 2022, with 40 fatalities only in…
report in Daily Times, Jan 1, 2023The year 2022 ended with December as the deadliest month for Pakistan while the country suffered as many as 376 terror attacks in last year that resulted in an increased number of casualties in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces. The Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), in its annual report released on Saturday, said that the majority of these attacks were claimed by the banned terror outfits such…
by Munawer Azeem in Dawn, December 30th, 2022ISLAMABAD: Though the interior minister claimed two days ago that suspects had been arrested in connection with last week’s terror attack in the capital, no one has so far been produced in court. Despite failure to produce the suspects in the court to make their arrest or detention legal, the capital police also remained silent over the details of the development including identification of the suspects. On Tuesday,…
By Andleeb Abbas in Daily Times, Dec 24, 2022The writer is a columnist, consultant, coach, and analystArmed attack. Daylight terror. Hostages. Killings. Blasts in Quetta, Wana and Bannu. This is not 2012 but 2022. They are back. They are threatening. They are spreading. Islamabad-based institute PIPS (Pakistan institute of Peace studies) has published a paper that claims that a 51 per cent increase in terrorism has occurred in Pakistan since the Afghan Taliban took over…
report in The Express Tribune, Dec 25th, 2022.An advocate convicted in a terror case has been able to get his licence from Sindh Bar Council (SBC) to practice the law. As per Section 108-B(d) of The Pakistan Legal Practitioners and Bar Councils Rules, 1976, it is required for the all law graduates to submit an affidavit disclosing any past conviction in any country. The Pakistan Bar Council also prohibits any such person to be admitted…