Peshawar police bloody encounter with extremists

[American Pakistani]

Peshawar police bloody encounter with extremists
Updated at: 0900 PST, Monday, April 11, 2011

PESHAWAR: A fierce fighting between the local police and the militants that took place near Karkhano market in the city area here left one ASI and three militants dead.

http://http://geo.tv/4-11-2011/80241.htm

 

[Ahmad]

PESHAWAR: Three militants and a policeman were killed in a pre-dawn gunfight in Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday, police said.

More than 4,200 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other religious extremist networks, concentrated in the northwest, since government troops stormed a mosque in Islamabad in 2007.

Monday’s clashes took place in the wealthy suburb of Hayatabad when a group of five militants attacked a police patrol with small machine guns and Kalashnikovs, police said.

“Three militants were killed during the exchange of fire. We also lost one of our policemen,” Shafiullah Khan, a senior police officer, told AFP.

Two militants managed to flee the scene, Khan added.

Khan said that police recovered five grenades, two Kalashnikovs, two small machine guns and explosives from the scene.

Mohammad Ijaz Khan, another senior police official, confirmed the incident and casualties. – AFP

 

[Major Sahab]

Sad news.

 

[NaqsheYaar]

Kudos to the Policemen!!
So they managed to kill 3 ba$tards even when they were ambushed.

 

[pak-marine]

may our fallen policemen rest in peace , they are the real shuhadae pakistan... May Allah open doors in heaven

 

[fatman17]

Memorandum of Understanding Signed Between the United States and Pakistan for Equipment

Media Note
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC

April 15, 2011

On April 13, 2011, the United States and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Police signed a Memorandum of Understanding on the provision of over $17 million in vehicles, communications, and other equipment. These vehicles and equipment funded by the U.S. will support the KP Police – including the Elite Force – in their mission to protect the local population.

State Department Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, Ambassador William R. Brownfield and the Inspector General of KP Police Fiaz Toru presided over the ceremony. Also in attendance were U.S. Acting Consul General Constance C. Arvis and Embassy Islamabad Narcotics Affairs Section Director Garace Reynard.

The U.S. supports civilian law enforcement in Pakistan through equipment, training, refurbishment, and construction of new police facilities. Last year, the United States committed $102.6 million for civilian law enforcement assistance. This year, the United States will continue to supply the KP Police with approximately 440 additional vehicles, including trucks, armoured vehicles and personnel carriers, ambulances, and motorcycles, as well as other equipment vital to the execution of its critical mission.

The signing of this agreement is another example of ongoing American support and is a symbol of the continuing close cooperation between our two countries.


PRN: 2011/593

 

[F86 Saber]

So, what exactly is the equipment the KP police will get?