30 June 2011
Pakistani troops backed by jets and helicopter gunships have killed 40 militants in a restive tribal area bordering Afghanistan in the past three days, a military commander said Thursday.Brigadier Aftab Ahmad told AFP by telephone that his forces had destroyed 17 militant hideouts in the Baizai region under his command in the lawless tribal area of Mohmand. "Militants were regularly attacking our posts on the Afghanistan border at Shonkari and Mithai...
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29 June 2011
A tribunal headed by Justice Mohammad Hashim Kakar of the Balochistan High Court submitted on Tuesday its report on the Kharotabad incident of May 17 in which five foreigners, three of them women, were killed by security personnel, but the provincial government has decided not to make it public. According to sources, the government observed after going through the report that recommendations made by the judicial tribunal could not be fully implemented....
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24 June 2011
At least five persons were killed and three others injured as fighting between rival armed groups intensified in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Thursday. Also, a khasadar was killed by unidentified assailants in Jawaki area of Frontier Region of Kohat on Thursday. Sources said that volunteers of Zakhakhel Qaumi Lashkar and members of banned militant organisation Lashkar-i-Islam traded heavy fire in Tora Vela of Tirah. They said that volunteers...
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21 June 2011
A car bomb explosion in Matni area of Peshawar killed three people including one policeman and peace committee leader Ijaz Bacha while injuring seven people on Monday. Express 24/7 correspondent Umar Farooq reported that unidentified assailants had planted a bomb on a motor-bike before parking it outside the residence peace militia member, Ijaz Bacha. The militia’s head Qadir Khan, said that the attacker quietly fled after parking his motor-bike...
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20 June 2011
Eleven people, including two activists of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), lost life in separate incidents of violence that took place in different parts of the city on Sunday. The body of a MQM activist bearing torture marks was found from Kikri Ground within the remits of Kharadar police station. The victim was identified as Feroz, son of Iqbal. SHO Ghulam Nabi Afridi said Feroz had recently shifted to Agra Taj Colony from North Karachi, adding...
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15 June 2011
Orangi Town [Karachi] remained on edge after at least five people, including two Awami National Party (ANP) supporters and a Muttahida Qaumi Movement supporter, were gunned down on Tuesday. On the second consecutive day of violence in the neighbourhood, the death toll rose to 10 and the area echoed with gunshots. The violence escalated after the target killing of MQM worker, Shafiq, on Monday. On Tuesday, Wajid Shoaib, 15, and Adnan Khan, 16, were...
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14 June 2011
A fresh wave of violence blamed on political and ethnic tensions killed at least 12 people in Pakistan's biggest city of Karachi overnight, officials said Tuesday. Tensions are high between the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Awami National Party (ANP), which represent different ethnic communities and straddle volatile political fault lines. Killings have been blamed on their loyalists. "At least 12 people were killed in targeted killings,...
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10 June 2011
The ongoing target killing and violence gripped the city, claiming 11 lives of people, including son of Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) leader Zaibun Nissa, one activist and one sympathiser of Awami National Party (ANP) and one Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activist, in different parts of the metropolis on Thursday.
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09 June 2011
More than 100 Taliban armed with rocket launchers attacked a Pakistani checkpost near the Afghan border in South Waziristan on Thursday, triggering gunbattles that killed eight soldiers. It was the second time in a week that scores of militants besieged a checkpost in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt, underscoring the scale of the threat that Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked extremists pose to security forces. Washington has called Pakistan's semi-autonomous...
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06 June 2011
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday condemned the ‘infiltration’ of militants from Afghanistan into Dir Upper and asked both the Pakistan and Afghan governments to take measures for preventing occurrence of such events in future. The provincial government made the demand in a special meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti here on Saturday. The meeting was convened to discuss aftermaths of a militants’...
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