Quetta, May 25 (IANS) A police official deployed with the polio vaccination team was seriously injured in a firing incident near Ishaqzai Qila area of Chaman district in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. However, the members of the polio team remained safe, local media reported on Monday. Police officer guarding the polio team was injured after unidentified assailants opened fire at him on Sunday, according to police, Pakistan’s daily Dawn reported. The injured police personnel was taken to hospi…
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Islamabad, May 21 (IANS) Two school children lost their lives on Thursday, after a quadcopter drone struck a hilly area of Bajaur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan, local media reported.The fatal incident occurred in the Sahi Thangi area, which is situated about 25 kilometres from Khar, the district headquarters of Bajaur, in the afternoon, reported Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn, citing local residents and official sources.The sources added that the children who were killed w…
Islamabad, May 19 (IANS) At least two police personnel escorting polio vaccination teams were killed in separate incidents in Bajaur district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local media reported. Unidentified assailants attacked the polio vaccination teams in Tabbai and Dag Qila regions of Salarzai on Monday, Geo News reported, citing a senior police official.Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Sohail Afridi condemned the attack on police personnel guarding polio teams and ordered the Inspector …
Quetta, March 9 (IANS) A senior officer of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) was killed after unidentified assailants opened fire at him in the Killi Ismail area of Pakistan’s Quetta, local media reported on Monday. Police said Inspector Metha Khan, who recently joined CTD, was shot by armed men when he was passing through the Killi Ismail area on Sunday, Pakistan’s leading daily Dawn reported. A senior police that the CTD officer died on the spot after the armed men on motorcycles opened…
Islamabad, March 4 (IANS) An Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), Daulat Khan, was killed in a sniper attack by unknown assailants on the Badan police post in Wara Mamond tehsil of Bajaur district in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday, local media reported, citing police. Following the attack, police cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to find the suspects, Pakistan’s leading daily The Express Tribune reported. Attacks on security personnel have occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
Islamabad, Feb 19 (IANS) Pakistan has issued a demarche to the ruling Taliban regime in Afghanistan for allegedly allowing the use of Afghan soil for carrying out a recent attack on security forces in Bajaur district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, local media reported on Thursday. The demarche was issued when Pakistan’s Foreign Office (PFO) summoned the Afghan deputy head of mission. The statement read, “Pakistan condemned in the strongest possible terms the vehicle-borne suicide terrorist at…
Islamabad, Jan 3 (IANS) At least one person was killed and three others, including two police personnel, were injured during a attack on a police post in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the early hours of Saturday, local media reported Citing police and local residents, leading Pakistani daily Dawn reported that the attack took place at around 2 am at the police post in Barang tehsil of Bajaur district, located in the hilly Kohi Sar area.Speaking to Dawn, Israr Khan, spokesperson for the distri…