Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Terrorism Watch

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6 policemen injure in attack on polio team​

D.I.KHAN: Six policemen got injured when unknown assailants opened fire on a polio team here in Musa Zai area road within the limits of Chaudhwan police station on Thursday.

According to Police spokesman, the police personnel were guarding a polio team when terrorists attacked them in Musazai area by opening indiscriminate firing. As a result, six policemen sustained injuries. The injured were identified as Imdad Ullah, Muhammad Yaseen, Muhammad Zubair and Muhammad Arshad of Elite Police Training Center (EPTC) Nowshera platoon besides regular policeman Muhammad Usman and Driver Inayatullah.

After the attack, the police responded promptly but the militants managed to escape from the scene.

 

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Drive-by grenade attack in Bannu kills policeman, injures another​

Sirajuddin
January 7, 2023


A policeman was killed and another injured on Saturday when militants lobbed a hand grenade at a police mobile in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district.

“The militants, who were on a motorcycle, threw a hand grenade at a police van,” Bannu Division Police spokesperson Wajid Khan told Dawn.com, confirming that a police constable died and another was injured.

He said the attack took place within the remit of the Township police station when the police party belonging to the Domel police station was busy carrying out a raid. The details of the raid were not shared by the police so far.

 

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Shinwari Qilla Sarband, Peshawar
CTD conducted an Intelligence based operation on reported presence of terrorists in hideouts.
In exchange of fire two Terrorists Killed
• Gul Hai alias Minhaj R/o Bara Khyber .
• Hazrat Umar alias Mansoor R/o Mohmand Hal Yeka Tut.
Three terrorists managed to escape.
Arms and ammo recovered from possession of killed Ts. Search op is ongoing for elimination/arrest of fleeing terrorists.

 

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Police vehicle damaged in Dera Ismail Khan IED blast​

The Newspaper
January 18, 2023

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A police patrol vehicle suffered slight damage after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on the road went off in the Khoi Bahara police station in the merged area here on Tuesday.

A police official said the militants had planted an IED on the roadside to target the armoured vehicle of the Khoi Bahara police.

After the explosion, the police responded to the attack and the militants escaped from the area. The police launched a search operation in the area to track down the attackers.

Meanwhile, two people were shot dead in separate incidents in Kulachi and Paroa tehsils here on Tuesday.

A police official said that unknown persons shot and killed a person named Saqlain Abbas in Babbar Pakka area of Paroa tehsil. Soon after the incident, the police reached the spot and shifted the body to the tehsil hospital.

The CTD police registered a case against unknown persons and started an investigation.

Similarly, in another incident, an unknown attacker killed a 47-year-old man, Arsala Khan, in the Loni area of Kulachi tehsil.

A police official said that Mohammad Farooq, the brother of the victim, has filed a report in the Kulachi police station stating that I, my brother Arsala Khan and other friends were sitting in hujra when a masked person who was armed with a Kalashnikov came and opened fire, killing my brother on the spot.

In another development, five masked men snatched Rs1.9 million from the staffers of a private firm distributing BISP cash assistance in the Kulachi area here on Tuesday.

A police official said that Shakib Ahmed and Dil Fayyaz were in their office to distribute BISP money when five to six masked men entered the office and decamped with Rs1.9 million cash and a mobile phone.

Published in Dawn, January 18th, 2023

 

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Militants behead teenager in Lakki on spying charge​

The Newspaper's
January 19, 2023

LAKKI MARWAT: A teenager was found beheaded in a remote area of Lakki Marwat, police said on Wednesday.

They said that beheaded body of a teenager was found in Bargai village. The victim was identified as Raheedullah, 19. He was killed by unidentified armed men believed to be militants on charges of spying.

Murad Khan, an uncle of the slain boy, told police that his nephew had gone to the fields on January 15 but did not return home.

He said that they came to know that armed men took him away along with his motorcycle.

An official said that the militant group ‘Ittehadul Mujahideen-i-Khurasan’ had left a dagger and a hand written chit in Pashto language along the body, carrying a message that Raheedullah was found guilty of spying for army and counter-terrorism department.

Published in Dawn, January 19th, 2023

 

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PESHAWAR: TTP on Thursday claimed responsibility for a suicide bomb attack on a police post in northern Pakistan that martyred three police officers.

Attackers threw grenades at a police outpost near the Afghan border in northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and entered the premises where a suicide bomber detonated explosives, according to police.

They said the number of wounded was not yet known. In November, banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), said it would no longer abide by a months-long ceasefire with the Pakistani government.

TTP militants have been waging a campaign of bombings and suicide attacks for over a decade in a bid to run Pakistan under a harsh brand of Islamic law. They have ramped up attacks after calling off the ceasefire brokered by the Afghan Taliban in May.

Pakistan’s military has launched periodic offensives in regions along the Afghan border that have served as safe havens for militants.

 

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One policeman martyred, two injured in Charsadda terror attack​

• Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claims responsibility for the attack

BR Web
January 21, 2023

At least one policeman was martyred and two others were injured in a gun attack on a checkpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district, Aaj News reported on Saturday.

The terrorists opened fire at a checkpost on Nowshera Road in Dheri Zardad, police said.

Resultantly, a police constable identified as Imran Khan lost his life while two others — Yousuf Ali and Rameez Khan — were injured, confirmed Charsadda police spokesperson Saifullah Khan.


After the attack, a heavy police contingent reached the site and began the search operation on a large scale, the police said.

The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack.

According to the statistics released by an Islamabad-based independent think tank – Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) – the year 2022 witnessed a 28 percent increase in terror attacks across the country compared to the number of terror incidents in 2021.

The report stated that terror incidents increased by 88 percent in Balochistan and 54 percent in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa during a single month of December alone in 2022.

Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed most of the terror attacks that were carried out in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

In response to the increase in terrorism across the country, 16 security forces actions were reported in which 39 suspected militants were killed and 47 others were apprehended.

Pakistan witnessed a 28 percent increase in terror attacks across the country in 2022, while the highest number of 44 percent of militants’ attacks was reported in a single month of December, a report said.

 

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Police vehicle narrowly escapes bomb blast in Peshawar’s Badaber area​

Zahid Imdad
January 22, 2023

A patrol van of the Badaber police station in Peshawar narrowly escaped a bomb blast on Sunday, the police said.

According to a statement issued by the Peshawar Capital City Police, Nasir Khan — in charge of the Badaber’s Shaikhan checkpost — was patrolling in Gula Khan Zangal, an area bordering Khyber Agency, when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded near his vehicle.

“Khan’s vehicle was slightly damaged in the blast. Fortunately, no injuries or casualties were reported,” it said.

Police teams have arrived at the crime site to collect evidence and the area has been cordoned off. “The incident is being investigated closely,” the statement added.

Meanwhile, the bomb disposal squad (BDS) said that approximately one kilogram of explosives was used in the blast

Since the talks with the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke down in November, the militant group has intensified its attacks, particularly targeting the police in KP and areas bordering Afghanistan.

Last night, a policeman was martyred and two others were injured when unidentified assailants attacked a police post in Dheri Zardad locality of Charsadda.

Last week, a deputy superintendent of police and two constables were martyred when militants, armed with automatic assault weapons, targeted the Sarband police station on the outskirts of the province’s capital, Peshawar late at night.

Officials said the militants, equipped with advanced weapons, including thermal weapon sights, carried out a ‘coordinated’ attack.

On Jan 10, unknown militants attacked the Yarik police station in Dera Ismail Khan with rifles and missiles. However, no loss of life was reported.

 

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Solider martyred in Bannu IED blast​

Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any terrorists in the area, says ISPR

News
January 23, 2023


A soldier of Pakistan Army embraced martyrdom when an improvised explosive device (IED) exploded in general area Jani Khel of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Bannu district on Monday, the military said.

“Sepoy Gul Sher, a 24-year-old resident of Khyber district, embraced shahadat [in the incident],” military’s media, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said in a statement.

Sanitisation of the area is being carried out to eliminate any terrorists in the area, it added.

The incident comes two days after a policeman embraced martyrdom while two of his colleagues sustained injuries as another check-post came under terrorists’ attack in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa’s Charsadda district.

District Police Officer (DPO) Charsadda Suhail Khalid told The Express Tribune that terrorists on a motorbike opened fire at a check-post manned by three policemen in Dheri Zardad in Charsadda, injuring all of them.

The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement.

The TTP, which has ideological linkages with the Afghan Taliban, executed more than 100 attacks last year, most of which happened after August when the group’s peace talks with the Pakistan government began to falter. The ceasefire was formally ended last year on November 28 by the TTP.

 

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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police in Pakistan have ordered 700 thermal imaging weapon sights for their standard-issue assault rifles, meant for nighttime counterinsurgency operations.

100 of these have already been received, with the remaining 600 due soon.

 

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Militant hideouts pounded in Lakki operation​

January 28, 2023

LAKKI MARWAT: The security forces and police jointly carried out a crackdown on militants near Lakki Marwat city for the second consecutive day on Friday.

Official sources told Dawn that the security and law-enforcement agencies besieged the dense forest along the Kurram River after receiving intelligence information about presence of militants.

They said heavy weapons were used against militants, while their hideouts were pounded by Cobra helicopters.

The sources said the operation was carried out in Ihsanpur area on the northern side of the Kurram River and in Kaichi Kamar village on the river’s southern side. They said militants had established hideouts in the dense forest and used them after carrying out attacks on police and other law-enforcement agencies in the district.

The military’s media wing, ISPR, didn’t issue any statement about the operation.

A surge in terrorist attacks against police was reported in Kurram Par area, which borders Karak and Mianwali districts, in recent months.

In Nov 2022, two security personnel and six policemen were martyred and two injured in a militant attack near Wanda Shahabkhel locality in Kurram Par and Wanda Pashan areas.

Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2023

 

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Security forces bust suicide bombing network in KP

January 29, 2023

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Security forces have busted a network of terrorists involved in suicide attacks and other nefarious activities in the country during intelligence based operations in different parts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to PTV, Afghan mobile SIM cards, drugs, and foreign currency were recovered from possession of the terrorists

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Security forces kill one terrorist in North Waziristan IBO

January 28, 2023

A terrorist was killed by the Security Forces during an Intelligence Based Operation in general area Mir Ali, North Waziristan Tribal District.
According to the ISPR, during conduct of the operation, intense fire exchange took place between own troops and terrorists.
Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorist.
The killed terrorists remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and killing of innocent citizens.

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11 terrorists killed in clash with security forces in South Waziristan

January 05, 2023

Security Forces have killed 11 terrorists, including terrorist commander Hafiz Ullah alias Tor Hafiz and two suicide bombers, in an Intelligence Based Operation conducted in Wana area of, South Waziristan District.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), the security forces successfully foiled a high profile terrorist activity in the area.
A huge quantity of weapons and ammunition was also recovered from the killed terrorists.
The killed terrorists remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and incidents of target killing in South Waziristan District.

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Four terrorists killed, one soldier martyred in Bannu IBO

December 31, 2022

Four terrorists were killed in an Intelligence Based Operation conducted by security forces in Jani Khel area of Bannu district.
According to Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Pakistan Army troops effectively engaged the terrorists’ location and conducted the successful operation.
The killed terrorists remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and killing of innocent citizens.
Weapon and ammunition was also recovered from the killed terrorists.
However, during intense exchange of fire, Sepoy Muhammad Wasim having fought gallantly, embraced martordom. Sanitization of the area is being carried out to eliminate any other terrorists found in the area.

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Two terrorists were killed during an exchange of fire between terrorists and security forces in the Esham area of the North Waziristan district, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR)..