Pakistan: Son of tribal elder killed in Waziristan attack


The son of a tribal elder was killed in a remote controlled IED attack on his car in Lower South Waziristan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.

Police told The Express Tribune that in the Wana tehsil of South Waziristan an IED targeted the vehicle of prominent tribal elder Malik Jamil Toji Khel, resulting in the death of his young son. According to police, Malik Jamil’s vehicle was targeted with a remote-controlled IED in the Kari Kot area. As a result of the explosion, Malik Jamil Toji Khel, Malik Abdul Rasheed, Gulzada, and Muhammad Ullah were injured and transferred to the District Headquarters Hospital for treatment.

Read more…
Source: The Express Tribune News


Sign up for Counter-IED Report Newsletter


Related:

  • Pakistani security forces foil major terror bid in Balochistan

    September 18, 2018

    Pakistani security forces foiled a major terrorist bid in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province and recovered huge cache of arms and ammunition during an operation, officials said on Tuesday. According to paramilitary Frontier Corps Balochistan spokesperson, the forces carried out an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Kohlu, a district in Balochistan province. During the operation, huge amount of ...

  • Pakistan: Landmines in tribal areas

    September 17, 2018

    Landmines are a serious hazard in tribal areas of Pakistan. When the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) started returning to their homes in 2017 after a series of military operations in the tribal areas — they found their villages and areas surrounding their houses littered with deadly landmines. These landmines cost many locals their lives and ...

  • 3 security personnel injured in SW Pakistan blast

    August 26, 2018

    At least three security personnel were injured when a blast hit a vehicle of security forces in Pakistan’s southwest Mastung district of Balochistan province late Saturday night, local reports said. According to the reports, the vehicle carrying officials of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of police was passing through a market area of Mastung district when ...

  • Balochistan: One killed, 10 injured in Chaman IED blast

    August 13, 2018

    One person was killed while 10 others sustained injuries as an improvised explosive device (IED) planted on a motorcycle went off on Chaman’s Mall Road, Express News reported on Sunday. As a law enforcement vehicle was passing by the explosive device strapped to the vehicle went off, consequently, two FC officials are also among those injured in ...

  • Targetted attack: Two soldiers injured in a roadside blast

    August 7, 2018

    At least two soldiers were seriously injured when their convoy was targeted with a roadside bomb in North Waziristan district on Monday. Soldiers from the seventh engineering division BD department were on a routine checking patrol near the Dandee Kach Village when their vehicle was targeted using a bomb planted by the roadside. Two soldiers, including ...

  • Pakistan: At least 31 people killed in explosion at Quetta polling station

    July 25, 2018

    Five policemen and two children were among the victims of the attack in the city of Quetta. There are fears the death toll could rise as many of the 35 people wounded are in a critical condition. Terror group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the explosion. Hashim Ghilzai, an administration official in Quetta, said: “(The bomber) was ...

  • Suicide bombers kill 132 including political candidate in Pakistan election violence

    July 14, 2018

    Two suicide bombers have killed 132 people including a political candidate, as violence continues before Pakistan heads to the polls. Friday’s attacks were the deadliest in Pakistan’s troubled election campaign and took place just before disgraced Nawar Sharif was arrested on his return to the country. A suicide bomber killed 128, including candidate Siraj Raisani, in the ...

  • Suicide bombing kills 21 people, including politician, ahead of Pakistan election

    July 11, 2018

    The Pakistani Taliban said it was behind the attack, which targeted the Awami National Party (ANP) rally in the city of Peshawar. Haroon Ahmed Bilour, who was standing for election in the provincial legislature, was among those died in the explosion. The candidate’s father, Bashir Ahmed Bilour, was also killed by a suicide bomber in 2012. Read more… Source: ...

  • Eight tonne cache of explosives seized by Afghan authorities on Pakistan border

    June 12, 2018

    A huge cache of explosive materials was discovered by Afghan security forces in a vegetable truck crossing from Pakistan, in one of the largest ever finds. Intelligence officers found nearly eight tonnes of ammonium nitrate – the chemical widely used in making explosives – hidden beneath sacks of vegetables on the vehicle at the Torkham border crossing, at the ...

  • IED blast kills two soldiers in North Waziristan: ISPR

    May 30, 2018

    As many as two soldiers were killed and three others were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) explosion near Datakhel area of North Waziristan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Wednesday. According to military’s media wing, the blast took place when an IED planted on track by militants went off near a security forces ...

  • Afghanistan seizes truck carrying 10 tonnes of explosives from Pakistan

    May 29, 2018

    Afghan border police have seized a truck carrying 9,800 kilograms of ammonium nitrate, an ingredient of improvised explosives, at Torkham crossing with Pakistan, officials said Sunday. The explosives were placed under fruit boxes in a Pakistani lorry. The discovery was made on Saturday evening during check at Torkham port, Afghanistan’s Interior Ministry said. Read more… Source: 1tvnews.af  

  • CTD Balochistan recovers massive cache of weapons, explosives

    May 21, 2018

    The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) recovered a large cache of weapons and explosives during a raid in Quetta’s Kili Barat area late Sunday night. Security forces conducted a raid at a hide-out used as a weapon factory by Balochistan Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) commander Salman Badeni and other militants – who were killed in an intelligence-based operation last week. Over ...

  • 3 killed in IED blast on wedding in NW Pakistan

    April 27, 2018

    At least three people were killed and 30 others injured on Friday by an improvised explosive device (IED) blast at a wedding ceremony in northwestern Pakistan, near its border with Afghanistan, local officials confirmed. “The IED went off in a house in the Saidgai area of North Waziristan where hundreds of people were gathered for a ...

  • Three suicide attacks rock Quetta, killing six police

    April 24, 2018

    Three suicide bombers attacked Pakistani police and paramilitary soldiers in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, killing six police and wounding 15 members of the security forces, officials said. One bomber detonated his explosives near a police truck, provincial police chief Moazzam Jah Ansari said. Seven police officers were wounded in that attack. Read more… Source: The ...

  • Three Iranian security personnel killed at Pakistan border – Revolutionary Guards

    April 17, 2018

    Three Iranian security personnel were killed by militants in a cross-border attack on the frontier with Pakistan on Tuesday, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said. An Iranian police officer was killed in an ambush on a border post in the city of Mirjaveh in Sistan-Baluchestan province, and two soldiers died when their vehicle was hit by an improvised ...

  • Peshawar: IEDs, suicide jackets seized

    March 15, 2018

    The police and security forces recovered suicide jackets and improvised explosive devices in Peshawar and Charsadda areas on Wednesday. In Peshawar, the city police claimed to have recovered two improvised explosive devices and a suicide jacket from the outskirts of the city. SSP operations Javed Iqbal said that two IEDs and a suicide jacket were recovered from ...

  • Afghan militants involved in Kurram agency IED blast: Sources

    January 31, 2018

    The militants based in neighboring Afghanistan were involved in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast which occurred in Kurram agency yesterday, sources said on Wednesday. On Tuesday, eight people including three women and a child were killed when their vehicle struck a landmine in Ghos Ghari area of Kurram agency. Sources said that the Afghan militants were ...

  • Deadly attack on Methodist church in Pakistan

    December 17, 2017

    A suicide bomb and gun attack on a Methodist church in Pakistan has killed at least five people, reports say. The attack happened in the city of Quetta, some 65km (40 miles) from the border with Afghanistan. More than a dozen people were also wounded after gunmen wearing explosive vests tried to enter the building. The two attackers ...

  • Pakistan: IEDs, landmines still a serious threat in FATA

    November 5, 2017

    Landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) are posing a serious threat to the lives of innocent tribesmen who after experiencing the worst kind of sizzling heat and chilly cold weather in adjacent Khyber Pakhtunkhwa districts, are returning to their homes in North and South Waziristan Agencies. Compared to North Waziristan and the rest of the Federally ...

  • Pakistani forces foil major terrorist plot

    October 7, 2017

    Pakistani security forces have foiled a major terrorism plot in southwestern Balochistan province, a statement from the army said on Saturday. The paramilitary force Frontier Corps seized 1, 300 kilograms of explosives during an intelligence-based operation conducted in Grandani, Kohlu and Naseerabad areas of Balochistan, which was being planned to be used for terrorist activities in ...

  • IEDs blasts become a new challenge for Waziristan tribesmen

    September 28, 2017

    An exemplary peace has been restored in the once volatile South Waziristan Agency (SWA) after successive military offensives; however, the rising blasts of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) have become a new challenge for the war-weary tribesmen, as so far 70 people have been affected by these blasts within few months after repatriation. Pakistan has been battling ...

  • Pakistani Taliban says behind deadly blast in tribal region

    September 17, 2017

    The militant Pakistani Taliban group said it carried out an attack on Sunday that killed five people in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Mohammad Khurassani said the militants planted an improvised explosive device “to target security personnel” in the Bajaur Agency area that is part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The ...