Report in Dawn, April 14th, 2023KOHAT: Customs officials recovered a large cache of illegal ammunition from a truck and arrested the driver near an old toll plaza on the Indus Highway here on Wednesday night. Spokesperson for the department told Dawn on Thursday that the magazines with bullets of rifles worth Rs23.34 million were seized while being smuggled from Malakand to Punjab. He added that the cache included 33,160 rounds of M-16, Kalashnikov, M4, and…
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report in The Express Tribune, Feb 6, 2023QUETTA: At least nine security personnel were martyred and six injured in an explosion near a truck of the Balochistan Constabulary in the Bolan district of Balochistan on Monday. According to Levies officials, the explosion occurred at the Kambri bridge on the Quetta-Sibi highway and targeted a vehicle of security forces. Superintendent of Police (SP) Bolan Mehmood Notizai said that the explosion could have been a suicide attack.…
Report in The Kathmandu Post, Dec 17, 2022Several businessmen and various truck associations protested at Belhiya checkpoint in Rupandehi district on Friday against the movement of overloaded Indian trucks. They said Indian trucks have been carrying loads up to three times more than the legal limit. Businessmen organised a protest march from the truck parking lot in Belhia to the customs office at the border chanting slogans. Stating that carrying weight beyond capacity by trucks…
by Ahmad Nabi in the Nation, Dec 11, 2022KHYBER – The tribesmen of Landi Kotal blocked the pak-afghan highway in protest over a truck driver’s abduction by unidentified robbers in Kashmore, Sindh, and demanded that the provincial government should take immediate action to secure the truck driver’s safe release. Along with local political figures, members of public and transporters blocked the sultan-Khel Landi Kotal road in the Takia area with stones and other obstructions. Member…
by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, Dec 1st, 2022• ASI, woman and her two children martyred near Quetta• 24 injured as bomber smashes rickshaw into police truck• DIG says 25kg explosives used in suicide jacket QUETTA: At least four people were killed and 24 others injured on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a police truck in Baleli area, some 15 kilometres from the provincial capital, on the Quetta-Chaman national highway. A policeman was among those…