by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Oct 8th, 2023QUETTA: The seventh meeting of the Pak-Iran border committee, held in the Iranian border town of Mir-Javeh on Saturday, has decided to jointly combat terrorist groups, outlaws and drug smugglers on both sides of the border and extend mutual assistance and cooperation. It was also decided to take steps to stop Iranian oil smuggling. The Pakistani delegation was led by Additional Secretary Home for Balochistan Abdul Salam Khan…
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report in The News, September 28, 2023DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The police and the Counter Terrorism-Department officials killed a wanted terrorist in an intelligence-based operation in Takora area in Kulachi tehsil here on Wednesday. The sources said that acting on a tip-off, the police and the CTD personnel conducted an intelligence-based operation in which they killed a wanted terrorist Samiullah. During the operation, the terrorist opened fire on the police upon seeing the cops, who also…
Report in Dawn, September 27th, 2023PESHAWAR: Law-enforcement agencies have busted one of the largest extortion rackets run by the outlawed militant outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan and involving hundreds of Afghan and Pakistani operatives to finance terror operations in the country, revealed the counter-terrorism department on Tuesday. Addressing a news conference at the police lines here, deputy inspector general of police at the CTD’s Counter-Terrorism Finance Unit Imran Shahid said two members of the racket, including Faizullah…
report in The News, Sept 18, 2023LAHORE: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) President Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi was re-arrested in a terrorism case in Lahore immediately after an anti-corruption court discharged him from the Lahore Master Plan 2050 corruption case. Elahi was presented in the court in Lahore to get his physical remand by the ACE. However, the anti-corruption department failed to present any incriminating evidence against Elahi. The court earlier reserved its decision on the ACE’s request…
report in Khaama Press online, Sept 16, 2023Imam Ali Rahman, the President of Tajikistan, expressed concern during the fifth summit of Central Asian countries’ leaders, which took place in the city of Dushanbe. He voiced his concerns about the increasing threats of terrorism and drug trafficking from Afghanistan into Tajikistan. According to Sputnik News, Imam Ali Rahman reported that Tajik security forces thwarted a terrorist attack on the eve of Tajikistan’s Independence Day, launched from…
by Syed Irfan Raza in Dawn, Sept 11th, 2023• Minister says TTP using Afghanistan as launching padISLAMABAD: As Pakistan faces a surge in terrorist attacks, caretaker Interior Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Sunday downplayed the increase in militancy, saying there was no need for alarm as “a little surge [in terrorism] is not so big as to make us panic”. The statement by the interim minister came amid reports of almost daily skirmishes between the security…
by Saleem Shahid Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023QUETTA: Five suspected terrorists of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an operation conducted by the Balochistan police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday, according to officials. The operation was planned on the intelligence provided by TTP militant Naseebullah, who was arrested some time back, during the investigation. He revealed the presence of militants in the Aghberg area, a locality on the outskirts of the…
by Saleem Shahid Report in Dawn, Sept 8th, 2023QUETTA: Five suspected terrorists of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed in an operation conducted by the Balochistan police’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Thursday, according to officials. The operation was planned on the intelligence provided by TTP militant Naseebullah, who was arrested some time back, during the investigation. He revealed the presence of militants in the Aghberg area, a locality on the outskirts of the…
by Malik Asad | Munawer Azeem in Dawn, Sept 6th, 2023ISLAMABAD: In what appears to be a repeat of the exercise carried out by the capital police on Sept 1, which infuriated Lahore High Court, PTI President and former chief minister of Punjab Chaudhry Parvez Elahi was again arrested on Tuesday, this time in a terrorism, theft and dacoity case. He was taken into custody shortly after the Islamabad High Court (IHC) suspended the order…
report in Khaama Press, online ,Sept 4, 2023Masood Khan, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the United States, emphasized that despite the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan, the threat of terrorism still exists in the country. According to a report by Radio Pakistan on Monday, Khan said that both the United States and Pakistan are responsible for directing Afghanistan towards stability. He highlighted the collaboration between the United States and Pakistan in the fight against terrorism, though…
report in Dawn, Sept 3rd, 2023KHYBER: Three militants were killed in an encounter with the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) sleuths in the mountainous region of Shagai in Jamrud tehsil here on Saturday. A press release issued by the CTD said that a raiding party along with two activists of the proscribed Lashkar-i-Islam (LI), who had been under the department’s custody for some time, was on way to some hidden caves near the old Torkham road in…