Pakistan: 7 injured after blast derails 4 Jaffar Express carriages in Sindh’s Shikarpur

At least seven people were injured on Tuesday after a blast on a railway track derailed four bogies of the Jaf­far Express in Sindh’s Shikarpur district, according to officials. Shikarpur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Shahzeb Chachar said that the Read More …

Pakistan: Peshawar IED blast injures four policemen: official

At least four policemen were injured on Thursday when their vehicle was hit by the improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Peshawar’s Garhi Qamar Din area, said police. Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Operations Masood Bangash said that a police Read More …

Pakistan: At least 10 dead, 32 injured in bomb blast near Quetta’s FC headquarters

At least 10 people were killed and 32 were injured on Tuesday after a bomb blast ripped through a busy street near Quetta’s Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters, officials said. According to the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Special Operations Quetta Read More …

Pakistan: 10 civilians among 24 killed in Tirah blast

At least 14 terrorists and 10 civilians were killed in a powerful explosion at an improvised explosive device (IED) manufacturing facility in the Akakhel area of Khyber district, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P), late on Sunday night. According to the state-run Associated Press Read More …

Pakistan: Explosion derails Jaffar Express in Balochistan, leaving several injured

Several passengers were injured when three carriages of the Jaffar Express derailed in the Dasht area of Mastung, Balochistan, on Tuesday, following an explosion on the railway track, officials confirmed. Railway authorities reported that one of the carriages overturned, while Read More …

Pakistan: Digital battlefield – Militants vs the State in the war of narratives

There was a time when militants published newspapers, periodicals, posters, magazines, and distributed CDs to fuel their propaganda machinery. In recent years, however, they have become as equipped in the use of digital media as state actors, if not more. Read More …

Pakistan: 89 terrorists arrested over 3 months across Punjab

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested 89 terrorists in 940 intelligence-based operations (IBOs) launched across Punjab over the past three months, the department said in a statement on Monday. During the three months, 14 terrorists were arrested in Lahore, 14 Read More …

Pakistan: Chaman border closed after “a suicide blast”

The death toll from Thursday’s deadly explosion near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in Chaman rose to six, as one more injured succumbed to his wounds, medics at the Chaman Civil Hospital confirmed on Friday, saying that three others remained under treatment. Read More …

Pakistan: Thirteen terrorists killed in IED blunder

At least thirteen terrorists were killed when explosives stored in one of their hideouts in Bannu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P) went off on Sunday. In a separate incident, another terrorist was eliminated during a gun battle in Dera Ismail Khan. Read More …

Pakistan: Terror attempt foiled as IED defused in Bajaur’s Inayat Kalay Bazaar

A major terrorist attack was narrowly avoided when security forces successfully defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in the crowded Inayat Kalay Bazaar of Bajaur district. Acting swiftly on a tip-off, bomb disposal squads from the Pakistan Army and Read More …

Pakistan: At least one killed in Bajaur explosion during cricket match

At least one person was killed in a bomb blast while a cricket match was being played in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Bajaur district on Saturday, according to the police. Bajaur District Police Officer Waqas Rafique confirmed the incident to Dawn.com in Read More …

Pakistan: Two injured in explosives-laden motorbike attack in Khuzdar

Two people sustained injuries on Saturday when explosives planted in a motorbike went off in the Naal area of Khuzdar, Balochistan. Police confirmed that unidentified attackers had rigged the motorbike with explosive material and left it parked in the Koh Read More …

Pakistan: Militant attacks surge to decade-high in August

Pakistan witnessed an alarming spike in militant violence in August this year, registering a 74 per cent increase in militant attacks compared to July, becoming the “deadliest month in over a decade”, according to data released by the Islamabad-based think Read More …

Pakistan: Explosion partially damages girls’ primary school in Lakki Marwat

An explosion at a girls’ primary school in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district partially damaged the building, though no casualties were reported, police said on Sunday. DPO Khan further said that there were two IEDs planted in the school. “One Read More …

Pakistan: More than 30 terrorists killed while assembling IED inside a mosque in Bajaur

More than 30 suspected terrorists were killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) they were assembling inside a mosque in Bajaur district went off on Thursday. The incident came hours after at least 15 suspected terrorists were eliminated in an Read More …

Pakistan: Rethinking the Taliban doctrine

Just one month before the fall of Kabul to the Taliban in August 2021, a closed-door discussion organised by an Islamabad-based security think-tank brought together regional experts, retired military officers and policymakers to assess the potential fallout of the Taliban’s Read More …

Pakistan: Attack on bomb disposal unit leaves three injured

Three security personnel got injuries on Sunday as terrorists opened fire on a bomb disposal unit in the Ladha tehsil of Upper South Waziristan district. According to security officials, the injured personnel were transported to a nearby hospital. The officials Read More …

Pakistan: Security agencies foiled Balochistan ‘suicide attack’ on Independence Day

Balochistan Chief Minister Sarfraz Bugti on Monday said security agencies had arrested an alleged “would-be suicide bomber” as they foiled a terrorist attack on Independence Day. The security situation in Balochistan has worsened in recent months, as terrorists, long involved Read More …

Pakistan: Six police officers killed, 8 injured in multiple attacks on police checkpoints in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

At least six police officials were martyred and another eight were left injured as militants attacked police checkpoints and patrols across seven districts in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, including Peshawar, Upper Dir and Lower Dir, police said on Read More …

Pakistan: Terrorists blow up a gas pipeline in Lakki Marwat

Terrorists on Wednesday blew up a gas pipeline in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district, resulting in a suspension of gas supply to Punjab, police said. Lakki Marwat police spokesperson Aamir Khan told Dawn.com that the terrorists detonated explosives planted on Read More …