by Malik Asad in Dawn, February 21st, 2023ISLAMABAD: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) cleared former prime minister Imran Khan of terrorism charges on Monday, removing sections of the terror law from two first information reports (FIRs) against him and other leaders of the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) related to the 2014 sit-in. Judge Raja Jawad Abbas Hassan remanded the case to the sessions court. The Secretariat police station had registered FIRs over the violence during the sit-in.…
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by Mohammad Ali Babakhel in Dawn, February 20th, 2023The writer is author of Pakistan: In Between Extremism and Peace.PAKISTAN has long faced extremism, insurgency and terrorism. After 9/11, a number of legal, administrative and policy interventions were made, but despite the expanded counterterrorism (CT) apparatus, the goals have yet to be met. In practice, terrorism has interprovincial, interstate and international linkages, and so cannot be prevented or countered by provinces alone. During the last two…
report in Dawn, Feb 19, 2023QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the police has arrested a woman suspected of planning to carry out a suicide attack and recovered her jacket. The suspected was arrested near a park in Quetta’s Satellite Town when teams of CTD and intelligence agencies conducted an operation in the area against the outlawed Baloch Liberation Front (BLF), a CTD spokesperson said. He added the raid came after intelligence agencies received…
report in Dawn, Feb 19, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested eight suspected terrorists of banned organisation from different areas of the province. The CTD spokesperson said the teams had conducted intelligence-based operations in Lahore, Sargodha and Multan and arrested eight members of banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The teams also recovered a huge quantity of arms, ammunition and suicide jackets from their possession. The CTD also registered seven…
report in Dawn, February 9th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Wednesday to have killed a member of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in an encounter in Khanewal. A spokesperson claimed that the Multan CTD got a tip-off that members of a group involved in heinous terrorist activities, including attack on law-enforcement agencies (LEAs), were present in the vicinity of Chak 40/10-R in Khanewal. He said the suspected terrorists were planning to carry…
by Dr Moonis Ahmar in The Express Tribune, February 8th, 2023.The writer is former Dean Faculty of Social Science, University of KarachiTerrorism is a double-edged sword, which targets not only innocent people but also destabilises a society. Although the recent suicide attack at a mosque in Peshawar’s red zone was not of the same scale as the terrorist attack at Army Public School (APS) in 2014, it was still a horrific incident. Countless lives could…
Report in Dawn, Feb 5th, 2023LAHORE: The Punjab Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed on Saturday to have arrested 10 members of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al-Qaeda from different areas of the province. The CTD conducted extensive 20 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) in different districts across the province to avert any untoward incident. The CTD arrested 10 suspects belonging to TTP and Al-Qaeda/LeJ during the IBOs. The suspects were identified as Abdul Rehman, Roid Khan, Hanifullah…
report in The News, January 27, 2023LAHORE:The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) Punjab arrested 10 suspected terrorists from different parts of the province. According to the CTD spokesperson, the CTD Punjab conducted 44 Combing & Search Operations, in which 44 localities were checked in different districts of Punjab. He said that during these combing operations, 2,568 suspects were interrogated, 429 persons were biometrically checked and 10 suspects were arrested. He said that five FIRs were registered…
By Murtaza Solangi in The News, Jan 19, 2023The writer is a journalist.We are in election year again. Ten years back around this time we were in election mode when the terrorism unleashed by the TTP impacted the electioneering and deprived the Awami National Party and Pakistan Peoples Party, two mainstream secular parties from electioneering, especially in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to government reports at that time, 437 people were killed in over…
report in The Daily Star, Jan 17, 2023Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday called upon Alem and Olama (Islamic scholars) to instil humanitarian values among people and guide them against terrorism, militancy and drug abuse. “These are destroying families and the society as well,” she said while virtually inaugurating 50 more model mosques across the country from her official residence Gono Bhaban. She also requested all, particularly the children, not to get involved in militancy, saying,…
by Shahid Khan in the Nation, Jan 16, 2023PESHAWAR – Police and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) have shot dead the facilitators of the militants who had martyred a DSP and two other cops the other day, CTD official said. The official said that soon after the attack that claimed the lives of DSP Sardar Hussain and two other policemen, the police and CTD personnel launched a search operation in the precincts of Sarband police station.…