Targeted: SP CID killed in Quetta The Express Tribune
QUETTA: Superintendent of Police Crime Investigation Department (CID) Shahnawaz Khan succumbed to bullet wounds sustained in a targeted attack by unidentified men on Tuesday in the Satellite Town area of Quetta, Express News reported.
According to police officials, Khan was strolling near his house when unidentified men on two motorcycles opened fire on him, killing him instantly.
Previous reports stated that he was wounded severely and was shifted to a hospital where he succumbed to his injuries.
The police and Frontier Corps (FC) surrounded the area and have begun a search for the assailants.
He traced important cases and had received multiple threats from criminals in this regard, said a police source.
The police have constituted teams for conducting investigations.
Recently, a convoy of the Frontier Corps (FC) was targeted in a blast on Saryab Road in Quetta, killing two people and injuring 16 others.
Members of the Hazara community, United Nations (UN) workers and security personnel have also been targeted and killed in different incidents in Balochistan where the security situation is yet to be brought under control.
Many citizens abducted from different areas of the province also remain missing
Uch Gas Field vehicle escapes bomb attack The Express Tribune
QUETTA: A vehicle of Uch Gas Field escaped a remote controlled blast in Nuzband Bridge area of Sohbatpur on Monday.
According to police, a vehicle of Uch Gas Field, along with a police escort, was traveling to Sohbatpur from the Uch Gas Field when an explosive device planted along the road went off near the Nuzband Bridge. Fortunately, the vehicle and motorbikes escaped the blast and remained unhurt.
A heavy contingent of police and security forces immediately rushed to the spot soon after the explosion and threw a cordon around the area.
The target was the Uch Gas Field vehicle. However, no loss of life and property was reported in the blast, Station House Officer (SHO) Abdul Hameed Lashari told the media.
A case has been registered against unknown persons and an investigation is underway.
No group has so far claimed the responsibility for the explosion.
30 killed as Waziristan fighting heats up The Express Tribune
30 killed as Waziristan fighting heats up
By Nasruminallah
Published: May 8, 2012
Helicopter gunships target arms market in Miramshah, triggering a series of explosions. PHOTO: REUTERS/FILE
MIRAMSHAH:
At least 30 people, including 22 Taliban insurgents, were killed in fresh fighting in North Waziristan Agency on Monday, a day after nine troops were killed in an ambush in the same region.
Helicopter gunships bombed suspected militant hideouts in the suburb of Datta Khel Town where an indefinite curfew remained in place for a second consecutive day, officials and locals said.
Gunships also targeted a three-storey building believed to house weapons shops in Miramshahs main bazaar, causing a huge fire, witnesses said. The building in Noor Din Arms Market was hit several times, an eyewitness told AFP requesting anonymity.
I can see a huge fire and can hear explosions, I do not know whether people are trapped inside or not, its already curfew here, he added.
At least five people, including two children and a woman, were killed while 30 others injured due to the explosions at the arms market, a medic at the agency headquarters hospital told The Express Tribune.
An AFP reporter and dozens of other tribesmen witnessed the bodies of children lying on the ground after the explosions.
A few hours on two tribesmen were killed and 15 wounded as they tried to salvage weapons from the gutted shops, an official added.
According to sources, militants fired missiles at the Miramshah fort housing security forces in which one Frontier Corps soldier was killed. And in retaliatory fire three militants were also killed.
A security official said 12 suspected militants hiding in a house in Datta Khel were also killed by the security forces while 10 died in other operations.
In another incident, 20 tribesmen were injured when a stray shell hit a mosque near Miramshah, officials and residents told The Express Tribune.
Meanwhile, two soldiers were reportedly beheaded after being captured during Sundays fighting, officials said.
The heads of the soldiers were found dumped without their torsos one hanging from a barbed wire fence in the neighbourhood of Makane Bagh and the other in Zafar Town, local officials told AFP.
Fighting intensified in the area after Sundays attack on a security convoy by militants in the region.
Jirga under way
Officials said that local tribal elders were holding a jirga with top officials of the political administration. Maulvi Gul Ramzan and Mulvi Noor Ali Shah were leading the jirga, sources told The Express Tribune. Another jirga will be convened on Tuesday.
The fighting in Miramshah followed the murder last week of a senior cleric, Maulana Naseeb Khan, who taught at Jamia Haqqani in Akora Khattak. The Taliban blamed the army and vowed to avenge his killing. (With additional input by Agencies and Zulfiqar Ali from D I Khan)
Published in The Express Tribune, May 8th, 2012.
