report in Dawn, December 27th, 2023KHYBER: Inspector General of Police Akhtar Hayat Khan inaugurated on Tuesday the first command and control centre at Police Training Center Shahkas in Khyber tribal district. He was accompanied by CCPO Sayed Ashfaq Anwar, who also performed the opening of a new police station in Bara alongside inaugurating women-specific separate complaint desk in the same new building with female staff. Addressing the inaugural ceremony of police command and control centre,…
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Report in Dawn, November 8th, 2023BAJAUR: The Awami National Party has named its candidates for the four provincial assembly seats in Bajaur tribal district, a statement issued here on Tuesday said. It said the ANP’s provincial parliamentary committee made the nominations on the recommendations of the party’s Bajaur leadership. As per the decision, Malik Hikmatullah Khan Mamond has been noaminated for PK-19 constituency, Gul Afzal Khan (ANP district president) for PK-20, Rasheed Khan for PK-21…
Report in Dawn, August 15th, 2023BAJAUR: The police on Monday claimed to have foiled a sabotage attempt by recovering 22 rockets in Bajaur tribal district. The cache was recovered from hilly Kas Krewand area of Mamond tehsil, according to a statement issued from the office of the district police officer. It said that after receiving information about the presence of rockets in the area, a team of bomb disposal squad led by its in-charge Ihsanullah…
report in Dawn, July 9th, 2023QUETTA: Unknown attackers gunned down a tribal elder and injured two others in the city on Saturday, according to the police. The police said armed men opened fire on Lala Zahir Khan Dummar when he was passing through the Double Road area. He died on the spot while his two friends were injured. The police shifted the body and injured to the Civil Hospital. The deceased sustained multiple bullet injuries,…
Report in Dawn, June 29th, 2023BAJAUR/KHYBER: Four militants, including a commander, were killed and three others wounded during intelligence-based operations (IBO) in the tribal districts of Bajaur and Khyber, the military said on Wednesday. The first IBO was conducted in Inayat Kalli area of Bajaur district following a tip-off about the presence of Shafiullah, a militant commander. According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), security forces launched the operation on reports of the presence of of…
by Ibrahim Shinwari in Dawn, April 9th, 2023KHYBER: Two soldiers lost their lives and four others were injured when their vehicle was targeted by an improvised explosive device (IED) in Bara tehsil of Khyber tribal district on Saturday, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. Local sources said the security forces’ vehicle was passing through Miangano Kalay Khearr (dry stream) in the Malakdin Khel locality in the afternoon when it was hit by…
By Umer Farooq in Dawn, April 6th, 2023PESHAWAR: A key militant commander and his seven associates were killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) carried out by security forces in the Shinwarsak area of South Waziristan tribal district, on Wednesday. A sepoy of Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom while four others, including two officers, sustained injuries during the exchange of fire with militants, confirmed the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR). Local officials said that the eight gunned down…
report in Dawn, February 25th, 2023NORTH WAZIRISTAN: A tribal elder was killed and his son injured when the vehicle they were travelling in came under attack here on Friday, the police said. Malik Remal Wazir along with a son was travelling in a vehicle when unidentified assailants opened fire on it, leaving the elder dead on the spot and seriously injuring his son, officials said, adding the assailants escaped. The officials said deceased’s son was…
report in Dawn, February 5th, 2023BAJAUR: A woman and her son were injured in a landmine explosion in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur tribal district on Saturday morning, police and Rescue 1122 officials said. “The incident occurred in Thangi Srasha area when an explosive device, said to be an anti-personal mine planted in a field of a local elder, Malik Mursaleen Khan, went off at around 8am,” DSP Abdul Sattar Khan said. Talking to reporters after…
Report in Dawn, Jnuary 24th, 2023LAKKI MARWAT/KHYBER: A Pakistan Army soldier was martyred in a bomb blast in Bannu and a suspected militant was killed in a joint operation in Khyber tribal district on Monday. A local official told Dawn that an improvised explosive device (IED) was planted by militants in the Janikhel area of Bannu district and it exploded when it was being defused by the bomb disposal unit. “The [explosive] device went off…
Years after we thought the war against militants had been won, and were reminded of this success repeatedly, it seems the battle is still very much on. In a new series of attacks which have torn apart law and order in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and specifically the former tribal areas, four policemen were killed on Sunday during an attack on a police station in the Lakki Marwat area, when militants laid siege to the building and…