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Two cops wounded in DIK attack

By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, December 28, 2023PESHAWAR: Two policemen were wounded in yet another attack on a police post in Dera Ismail Khan late Wednesday night. Officials said the alert cops bravely fought back and repulsed the attack. Reports said the attackers opened fire with sniper guns and automatic rifles on a post in Maddi area. Police and security personnel retaliated and the firing continued for some time. Reports said two policemen…

ASWJ man shot at, wounded in ‘targeted attack’ in Karachi

Report in Dawn, December 6th, 2023KARACHI: A local leader of the outlawed Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) was shot at and wounded in New Karachi on Tuesday evening, police and his party said. The police said that Bilal Murshid, 30, was targeted by armed assailants riding a motorbike in the Godhra area in Sector 11-G. He suffered five bullet wounds and was taken first to the Abbasi Shaheed Hospital from where he was moved to…

Gang kidnaps two policemen, kills one:

Report in Dawn, November 13th, 2023NAWABSHAH: A gang of dacoits kidnapped two policemen after an encounter at a picket near Tharu Shah town of Naushahro Feroze district on Sunday. A little later, they killed one of them and wounded the other. Bhria City DSP Habibur Rehman Lashari told the media that constables Jabir Rajput and Sudhir Larik had signalled the suspects to stop but they opened fire, which was returned. He said the gang overpowered…

One hurt in twin landmine blasts

report in Dawn, October 23th, 2023DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two landmine explosions, with an interval of one hour on Sunday in different districts, left one man wounded. According to officials, a tractor-trolley transporting a water tank hit a landmine on the under-construction road near the Jamali Pump area. In the blast, an assistant of the tractor trolley’s driver, Saindad, sustained serious injuries. He was shifted to the Dera Murad Jamali district hospital for treatment. An hour…

One hurt in twin landmine blasts

report in Dawn, October 23th, 2023DERA MURAD JAMALI: Two landmine explosions, with an interval of one hour on Sunday in different districts, left one man wounded. According to officials, a tractor-trolley transporting a water tank hit a landmine on the under-construction road near the Jamali Pump area. In the blast, an assistant of the tractor trolley’s driver, Saindad, sustained serious injuries. He was shifted to the Dera Murad Jamali district hospital for treatment. An hour…

SHO wounded as two police stations attacked in KP

By Javed Aziz Khan in The News, October 21, 2023PESHAWAR: A station house officer was critically wounded when two police stations were attacked in Dera Ismail Khan and Tank districts on the night between Friday and Saturday. Reports said rockets were fired on the police station in Kulachi DIK where no casualty was reported. Later, a police station was attacked in Tank district. Reports said the SHO of the PS Asghar Khan was critically wounded…

6 labourers martyred, 2 injured in Turbat attack

report in The News,October 15, 2023QUETTA/MULTAN: Six labourers were martyred while asleep and two wounded after gunmen targeted them in an overnight attack in Turbat, officials said. According to police, unidentified gunmen targeted the labourers sleeping in an under-construction house. The deceased, who included four family members, among them two brothers, have been identified as Rizwan, Shehbaz, Waseem, Shafiq Ahmed, Mohammad Naeem and Sikander. Ghulam Mustafa and Tauheed were injured in the attack. Expressing condolences…

Two soldiers martyred in Musakhel

by Saleem Shahid in Dawn, August 8th, 2023QUETTA: Two Levies soldiers were martyred and two others, including an officer, were wounded in an exchange of fire with dacoits on the Loralai-Musakhel highway near Rarasham late on Monday. Officials said Levies personnel, acting on a tip-off, conducted a raid at the hideout of a gang of armed robbers in the Rarasham area of Tehsil Kingri, where they came under fire. In an ensuing encounter, two soldiers…

Gunbattle leaves three men dead near Madeji

report in Dawn, June 18th, 2023SUKKUR: A fierce gunbattle between the Kalhoro and Junejo communities of Shikarpur district on Saturday left three men dead and several others wounded. The two sides have been embroiled in an old enmity, which has already claimed 15 lives. In the latest incident, heavily armed men took up positions in their respective localities in Chabar village near the riverine area of Madeji town and fought a fierce battle. Reports reaching…

Blast at Peshawar’s Ring Road leaves one dead, 3 injured: police

Report in Pakistan Today, May 19, 2023PESHAWAR: At least one person was killed and three others were wounded in a blast at a motorcycle workshop near the Ring Road here on Thursday, according to police. Peshawar Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Harood Rashid confirmed the injuries and fatalities. He said the explosion occurred in the jurisdiction of the Peshatakara police station. According to the official, the injured persons had been moved to the Hayatabad Medical…

Robber shot dead, terrorist held in Mardan:

Bureau report in The News, April 18, 2023PESHAWAR: Police in two separate actions in Mardan shot dead an alleged robber while a wanted terrorist was arrested in wounded condition. An official said police chased and intercepted two alleged robbers after they snatched Rs 1.3 million from a local on the Bank Road in the limits of City police station. He said the robbers fired at police but the cops remained safe. The fire was returned…