by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Sept 14th, 2023QUETTA: A key commander of banned outfit Daesh was killed in a gun battle with Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel in Mastung area on Wednesday. Officials said that the CTD, on intelligence reports about the presence of the suspected Daesh commander Ghulam Din Shahwani alias Shoaib in Mastung town, cordoned off the area for his arrest. The Daesh commander, instead of surrender, started firing on the CTD personnel.…
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report in The News,March 15, 2023Karachi: Sindh’s Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) claimed to have arrested a militant belonging to the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a raid in the Soldier Bazaar area on Tuesday. CTD Investigation incharge Ali Raza said police carried out an intelligence-based raid in Soldier Bazaar and arrested Israr of the TTP’s Tariq Geedar group, adding that the alleged terrorist was an important associate of a commander of the group. The CTD…
By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, March 6th, 2023PESHAWAR: Terror has severely struck North Waziristan district in southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for the last many months with incidents happening almost daily in different parts of the district. An official said that 119 terrorist incidents have been reported in the district in the last 14 months, including 17 in the first two months of the current year while 102 were witnessed in 2022. A total of…
by Imran Malik in The Nation, Jan 14, 2023The people of Pakistan have spo ken. And the government must pay heed. – The widespread, spontaneous, and vociferous protests by the people of the erstwhile FATA, in particular both Waziristans, Bajaur, Wana, Lakki Marwat, Bannu, D I Khan, Swat, etc against the re-emergence of terrorists in their areas must have taken Terrorism Central (myriad terrorist groups milling around in the wildlands of Afghanistan) and the Afghan…