Pakistan: Karachi police make first arrest using facial recognition technology

Police on Monday claimed to have made the first-ever arrest using facial recognition technology in the metropolis. Without identifying the exact location, DIG Syed Asad Raza said that an alert was received by an emergency response vehicle (ERV) operator that Read More …

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: Four bogies derail as bomb rips through Jaffer Express in Jacobabad

Jacobabad SSP Saddam Hussain Khaskheli, accompanied by officials of police and Pakistan Railway, reached the site and gathered details of the incident. The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) officials had begun probe to determine the type of the bomb and the Read More …

Pakistan: Faisalabad, Multan airports to get advanced screening system

The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) will instal state-of-the-art explosive detection system (EDS) CT machines along with an advanced baggage handling system at Karachi, Multan, and Faisalabad airports. A spokesperson for the PAA said on Wednesday that the project was being Read More …

Pakistan: Mastermind, female accomplice involved in Karachi airport terror attack arrested

Sindh Home Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar on Monday announced the arrest of three terrorists, including the mastermind behind the deadly blast near the Karachi airport that killed two Chinese nationals among three people. “Javed alias Sami, who is the Read More …

Pakistan vows to hunt perpetrators of Karachi attack

On Sunday, an explosion near the Karachi airport killed three people, including two Chinese citizens, and injured over a dozen. The attack was claimed by the Majeed Brigade of the Baloch Liberation Army, a banned separatist outfit. Investigators probing the Read More …

Pakistan: Two foreign nationals dead, several injured in explosion near Karachi airport

At least two foreign nationals died while 17 others sustained injuries in a huge explosion near Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, with Home Minister Zia Ul Hassan Lanjar suspecting it to be an improvised explosive device (IED) strike. Sources told Geo Read More …

Pakistan: Security forces ‘carried out over 7,000 anti-terror ops’ in less than 3 months

Pakistan’s security forces have carried out as many as 7,745 anti-terror operations from April 1 to June 10 in their bid to curb the scourge of terrorism faced by the country, sources told Geo News on Wednesday. These operations were Read More …

Pakistan police kill bomber to thwart attack on Japanese nationals

Police in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi shot down a suicide bomber and a militant on Friday as they attacked a vehicle carrying five Japanese nationals, all of whom survived, a police spokesperson said. Islamist militants seeking to overthrow the Read More …

Pakistan: Bomb found in Karachi-bound Awami Express defused

A major tragedy was averted when a bomb was recovered from one of the bogies of Karachi-bound Awami Express train on Friday, police and railways officials said. According to details, a suspicious bag containing switches and wires was spotted under Read More …

Pakistan: 8 people killed after a rocket launcher shell explodes at a home in southern Sindh province

A shell of a rocket launcher apparently accidentally exploded at a home in a remote village in southern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, including women and children, police said. At least two people were also wounded in Read More …

Pakistan: Suicide bomb attack on Chinese shipyard workers foiled by police in Karachi

A suspected suicide bomb attack on Chinese shipyard workers in Pakistan has been foiled by police. The PTI news agency cited police officers as saying the attacker was killed by security forces on Wednesday following an intelligence tip-off. An attack Read More …

Thailand: Two bomb disposal team members die, one injured in Narathiwat

Two members of an army bomb disposal squad were killed and another injured by a southern insurgent IED attack on the convoy of the deputy commander of the Fourth Army Region in Si Sakhon district of the restive southern province Read More …

Pakistan: Militants killed in Gulshan-e-Maymar raid affiliated with IS-K

The Sindh Police’s Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on Sunday revealed that a pair of militants killed in an encounter in Karachi’s outskirts a day ago were affiliated with the outlawed militant Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K) group and had planned a suicide Read More …

Pakistan: CTD seizes IED made from mortar shell

The Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) of Sindh Police officials have claimed that they have seized an improvised explosive device (IED) made from a mortar shell. “The type of explosive device recovered from Shiraz has never been used in terrorism before,” the Read More …

Pakistan: Man carrying IED killed as device explodes in Jamshoro

A man was killed when an improvised explosive device (IED) that he was carrying exploded near the deputy commissioner’s office in the Kotri city of Sindh’s Jamshoro district early on Thursday morning, officials said. Jamshoro DC Farid Mustafa confirmed the Read More …

Pakistan police arrest suspect in deadly bombing of Chinese nationals

Pakistan says it has arrested a man who allegedly provided technical support for a deadly suicide bomb attack on Chinese teachers at the University of Karachi in April. A suspected female suicide bomber killed three Chinese teachers, drawing strong condemnation Read More …

Pakistan: Karachi Saddar Bomb Blast Main Suspect and Accomplice Killed In Encounter

Main accused involved in Karachi Saddar bomb blast along with his accomplice has been killed in encounter with intelligence agencies and Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) personnel in Karachi in the wee hours of Wednesday. According to details, intelligence agencies and Read More …

Pakistan: 1 passerby killed, at least 9 injured in IED blast in Karachi’s Saddar

One passerby was killed and at least nine injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) planted in a motorbike went off in a busy area of Saddar late Thursday night, according to officials. The blast took place in the commercial Read More …