PESHAWAR (TIP): Unidentified militants attacked a security check post in Pakistan’s restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, killing at least three persons and injuring two, police said.
The attack took place on January 23. The militants attacked the Aba Shaheed check post in the Dikhan district bordering South Waziristan.
Two labourers and one security personnel were killed in the attack, police said, adding that the presence of militants was spotted through thermal vision cameras.
The dead bodies were found during a search operation on Wednesday. The two labourers injured have been shifted to Dera district hospital, police said.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack. Pakistan has seen a resurgence of attacks by armed groups since 2022 when a ceasefire between the outlawed group Pakistan Taliban (TTP) and the government broke down.
More than 300 attacks have hit Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in 2023 alone, according to official data, with a vast majority of them claimed by the TTP, which was founded in 2007. (PTI)
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Militants attack check post in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa; 3 killed
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Four people killed in terrorist attack in Pakistan: Police
PESHAWAR (TIP): At least four people, including three policemen, were killed after terrorists attacked a toll plaza in Pakistan’s northwestern region on January 10, police said. The incident happened when unidentified terrorists attacked Laachi toll plaza in Kohat district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Wednesday morning. “Terrorists attacked the Laachi toll plaza in KPK provinces’ Kohat district. Four people including three policemen were killed,” said the police.
Heavy contingent of police rushed to the site to control the situation. After the incident, the police have sealed the entire area and started massive combing operation to arrest the culprits involved in the assault.
KPK’s caretaker Chief Minister Justice (Retired) Arshad Hussain condemned the attack.
He Praised the services and sacrifices of the KPK police in war against terrorism.
“The entire nation stands behind the police in their matchless struggle against terrorism,” he said. (PTI)
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Suicide bomber attacks security convoy in NW Pakistan killing 9 soldiers, says military
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (TIP): A suicide bomber riding on a motorcycle targeted a security convoy in northwest Pakistan on August 31, killing at least nine soldiers and wounding 20 others, the military and three security officials said, a sign of increasing militant violence.
The attack happened in Bannu, a district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, the military said in a statement. It said five soldiers were wounded in the attack.
However, security officials put the number of wounded persons at 20. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media on the record.
There was no immediate claim from any group, but the suspicion is likely to fall on the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up attacks on security forces since 2022. Authorities say the insurgents have found sanctuaries and have even been living openly in Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, which also emboldened them,
Bannu is located near the former militant stronghold of North Waziristan, which served as a base for insurgents until the army years ago announced that it had cleared the region of local and foreign militants. Occasional attacks have continued, however, raising concerns that the local Taliban, known as Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan, are regrouping in the area. The Pakistani Taliban are a separate group but allies of the Afghan Taliban, who seized power in Afghanistan in 2021 as the US and NATO troops were in the final stages of their pullout. (AP) -
Attacks across Pakistan, including school shooting, kill 14
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (TIP): Gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan’s volatile northwest on May 4, killing seven teachers and gunning down another teacher from the school in a separate attack. Earlier in the day, a shootout with militants elsewhere in the region killed six Pakistani soldiers.
The violence underscores the challenges the government of Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif is facing amid a surge in militant attacks across the country in recent months.
In Kurram, a district in the northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province that borders Afghanistan, a group of gunmen stormed a government school where students were taking exams. The seven killed teachers were members of Pakistan’s minority Shiite community, which is frequently targeted by militants.
Another teacher from the same school, a Sunni Muslim, was gunned down on the road in a separate attack earlier in the day in Kurram, according to local police official Abbas Ali. (AP) -
Pakistani court orders govt to ban social media app TikTok
Peshawar (TIP): A Pakistan high court on Thursday said it would order the government to ban social media app TikTok in the country, a lawyer representing Pakistan’s telecommunications regulator said. A high court in the northwestern city of Peshawar said it was ordering the ban after a private complainant said the social media app was spreading indecent content, Jehanzeb Mehsud, who represented Pakistan Telecommunication Authority in the case, told Reuters.—Reuters
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Main accused in Hindu temple vandalism arrested in Pakistan
Peshawar (TIP): Pakistani police on Friday claimed to have arrested the main accused in the vandalisation of a Hindu temple by a mob led by members of a radical Islamist party in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The main accused identified as Faizullah was arrested from Karak district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief Sanaullah Abbasi said on Friday, claiming that he instigated and facilitated the mob for attacking the temple and damaging the Samadhi of a religious leader there.
The police chief informed that 110 people have been arrested in the case so far.
The attack on the temple in Terri village in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Karak district last week by members of radical Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (Fazal ur Rehman group) drew strong condemnation from human rights activists and the minority Hindu community leaders.
The temple was attacked by the mob after members of the Hindu community received permission from local authorities to renovate its decades-old building. The mob had demolished the newly constructed work alongside the old structure. The Supreme Court has ordered the Evacuee Property Trust Board (EPTB) to start reconstruction of the damaged temple and instructed authorities to recover the money for the restoration work from the attackers whose act has caused “international embarrassment” to Pakistan.
Hindus form the biggest minority community in Pakistan.
According to official estimates, 75 lakh Hindus live in Pakistan. However, according to the community, over 90 lakh Hindus are living in the country.
The majority of Pakistan’s Hindu population is settled in Sindh province where they share culture, traditions and language with Muslim residents. They often complain of harassment by the extremists. — PTI