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An improvised explosive device blast has killed at least three people and wounded 12 others in the southwestern Pakistani border town of Chaman, officials say. The blast took place on Tuesday evening and targeted a police vehicle that was on Read More …
A roadside bomb went off near a vehicle carrying paramilitary rangers in southern Pakistan on Monday, killing a ranger and wounding 11 others, mostly pedestrians, authorities said. The attack happened in the Orangi neighborhood of the port city of Karachi Read More …
Security forces conducted two separate intelligence-based operations (IBOs) on terrorist hideouts in North Waziristan, killing eight militants including three commanders, according to a statement issued by the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) on Saturday. According to the ISPR, the intelligence-based raids Read More …
Five construction workers were killed and five others received serious injuries when the pick-up truck they were travelling in hit a roadside bomb in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province. No party has claimed responsibility for the blast, which took place on Read More …
An improvised explosive device (IED) was found near the railway station on Wednesday. A locally-made device, containing about 1kg of explosive material filled in a plastic bottle with a detonator, was described by bomb disposal experts as mobile device. It Read More …
Two terrorists including an IED expert were killed during an intelligence-based operation (IBO) in North Waziristan, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said on Saturday. The security forces conducted an intelligence-based operation on terrorist hideouts in MalikKhel, North Waziristan, said the Read More …
A soldier was killed and two people were injured in a bomb explosion in Quetta city of Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province on Thursday, officials said. Some unknown militants parked an explosive-laden motorbike at the roadside and exploded it when a Read More …
A terror suspect was killed and five others were arrested during an operation in Karachi’s Shah Latif Town on Monday. The joint operation was conducted by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and officers of intelligence agencies. The exchange of fire continued Read More …
The bomb disposal unit (BDU) of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has saved thousands of lives by foiling at least 137 suicide attacks and defusing 4653 explosive devices since 2009. From a small squad of a few experts working within limited resources and Read More …
Pakistan’s military says it has killed five members of the Pakistan Taliban group in two separate security operations in the northwestern North Waziristan district, including two senior members of different factions of the armed group. In a statement released late Read More …
The Pakistan Army killed two terrorists belonging to the proscribed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) during a security operation in South Waziristan, Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said Monday. While two terrorists were killed, another was injured during the intelligence-based operation (IBO) in Read More …
Members of security forces defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by the roadside in Basima area of Washuk district, sources said on Tuesday. According to the official sources, after receiving information in this regard personnel of the Frontier Corps Read More …
Four people were injured in an explosion near a checkpoint of the Frontier Corps (FC) in a market in Turbat town in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province on Sunday, police officials said. According to a senior police official, unidentified militants apparently Read More …
The bomb disposal unit (BDU) defused a 10kg remote-controlled explosive device in Bannu district on Tuesday, while the unit has defused 467 explosive devices throughout the province in the year 2020, a senior official said. Head of the KP’s Bomb Read More …
A bomb blast was reported near Quetta’s Essa Nagri on Friday afternoon. The explosion took place near Muslim Town. “A remote control device was used in the blast,” a police officer said. An FC convoy was the target of the Read More …
Law enforcers foiled on Tuesday morning a bid to detonate a magnetic improvised explosive device (IED) in Clifton, near a Chinese restaurant in close proximity to Bilawal House. CCTV footage, acquired after a bomb disposal squad defused the explosive device, Read More …
In a second blast in the garrison city of Rawalpindi this month, over two dozen people including women and children were injured in the busy Ganj Mandi area on Sunday. The explosion, which took place at around 2pm just a Read More …
Sindh’s Counter-Terrorism Department on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two militants affiliated with a banned sectarian outfit. The CTD said the arrested men were involved in high profile targeted killings of religious scholars and were members of the proscribed Sipah-e-Muhammad’s Read More …
The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Punjab police has failed to identify suspects in any of the four terror attacks that occurred in the garrison city during the outgoing year. Three people lost their lives while more than 30 people sustained Read More …
An improvised explosive device went off outside a general store in the Pirwadhai area on Friday, leaving one person dead and seven others injured. The blast triggered fire in an auto-rickshaw parked outside the shop and caused considerable damage to Read More …