report in The News, Feb 14, 2024Karachi: The Malir district police on Monday arrested another alleged notorious terrorist of the banned Sindh Republican Army (SRA) over involvement in a number of terrorism activities in the city and other parts of the province. Malir police chief SSP Irfan Ali Bahadur said a raid was conducted after an informant tipped the police off about the presence of terrorists in an area. After facing resistance, the cops arrested…
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Report in Dawn, Feb 8th, 2023LAHORE: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Tuesday arrested a suspected terrorist from Multan and recovered a suicide jacket from him. According to details, the CTD Multan arrested a suspected member of proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Muhammad Hammad alias Commando Musa and recovered a suicide vest, arms and ammunition. The CTD claimed that the suspect was present in the area to execute a terrorist activity. The Multan CTD registered a…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, February 6th, 2023QUETTA: Seven people were injured in two terrorist attacks, one of them said to be a suicide bombing, on Sunday. The first incident took place near the Police Lines on Gulistan Road and the other on Mano Jan Road. Five people, including an office-bearer of the Civil Secretariat Staff Association, suffered injuries in the first attack. According to police officials, the blast occurred near a bridge. There was…
EDITORIAL in Business Recorder, February 1st, 2023Ever since November 1995 when al-Qaeda terrorists carried out a deadly attack on Egyptian embassy in Islamabad Pakistan has been a playing field of terrorists of various genres, but with alternating variation of timeframe. So, after a relative calm of a couple of years Pakistan appears to have fallen prey to terrorists of local brand; they’re known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). What does this entity really want? There is…
report in The News, Jan 31, 2023RAWALPINDI: Security forces and intelligence agencies killed a terrorist in Kurram district, who had martyred two intelligence officers in Khanewa earlier this month. Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Counter-Terrorism Director Naveed Sadiq and Inspector Nasir Abbas of the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) had been martyred when they were sitting in a roadside hotel in Khanewal on January 3. According to the ISPR, the intelligence agencies after hectic efforts and using latest technology…
report in Dawn, January 27th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: The Pakistan Army and police launched a joint search operation against terrorists in a forest along the Kurram River near Lakki Marwat city on Thursday. Official sources told Dawn that a large contingent of military and police personnel was dispatched to the riverside area o a tip-off about the presence of terrorists. They said that those personnel went to the area in the wee hours of the day…
by Ali Tauqeer Sheikh in Dawn, Jan 26, 2023The writer is an expert on climate change and development.………WEF’s Pakistan specific report is chilling. Developed by Mashal, it has listed the top 10 risks that pose the biggest threats to Pakistan in the next two years: i) digital power concentration and monopolies; ii) failure of cybersecurity measures (including loss of privacy, data fraud or theft, cyberespionage); iii) rapid and/or sustained inflation; iv) debt crises; v) state…
REPORT IN Daily FT, , 20 January 2023The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on Wednesday said Sri Lanka must fully compensate victims of the Easter Sunday 2019 terrorist attacks following a recent decision by the country’s top court. Last week, the Supreme Court ordered the former President and three other senior officials to compensate the families of the victims because they had failed to prevent the tragedy. Over 270 people were…
report in The News on line, Jan 14, 2023An overnight terrorist attack left three police, including a deputy superintendent of police (DSP), dead in Peshawar. The assault took place in Peshawar’s suburban area where terrorists ambushed the Sarband police station in Saturday’s early hours, leaving three police personnel, inlcuding DSP Badaber Sardar Hussain. Senior superintendent of police operations Kashif Aftab Abbasi confirmed that police station Sarband came under attack with grenades and sniper guns fitted…
by Imran Ayub in Dawn, January 6th, 2023KARACHI: Calling PTI chief Imran Khan “a frontman for terrorists”, Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Thursday accused the former premier of following an appeasement policy during his tenure that the PPP chairman said resulted in militants’ resurgence. The foreign minister even warned his own government in the Centre, saying his party would not allow any such strategy and talks with militants “behind parliament’s back”. Speaking at a press…
by Ghulam Mursalin Marwat in Dawn, January 2nd, 2023LAKKI MARWAT: A police constable embraced martyrdom and a terrorist was killed after a police checkpoint in Shahbazkhel town of Lakki Marwat district was attacked by suspected terrorists with sophisticated weapons on Sunday. Just a day earlier a clash between security forces and terrorists in Janikhel area of Bannu had left four terrorists dead and a soldier martyred. A police official said that policeman Tehseenullah was martyred…