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India-Pakistan
11 ‘militants’ killed, five cops injured in KP terror spate
2023-01-06
[Dawn]
  • Eleven, including key TTP commander and would-be suicide bombers, said to be among dead

  • Locals, police repulse attack on Lakki Marwat police station

A day after Pakistain vowed to take pre-emptive measures to avert terrorist attacks, security forces killed 11 holy warriors, including a key commander of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban
...Arabic for students...
Pakistain, in a raid in South Wazoo, while two separate attacks targeting police in Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
left five officials injured.

In an intelligence-based operation in Wana, the security forces raided a hideout of TTP murderous Moslems and killed at least 11 terrorists, including TTP commander Hafizullah alongside two would-be jacket wallahs, said the military’s media wing.

The operation "foiled a major terrorist activity", the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement issued on Thursday evening.

"During intense exchange of fire, 11 terrorists, including terrorist commander Hafizullah alias Tor Hafiz, and two suicide bombers were killed.

"A huge quantity of weapons and ammunition was also recovered from the killed terrorists," the military’s media wing said.

It added that the murderous Moslems had remained "actively involv­­ed in terrorist activities against security forces and murder of police in the district".

SLAIN TTP COMMANDER
Local officials said that TTP commander Hafizullah had been involved in attacks on cop shoppes in Azam Warsak, Raghzai, and Wana as well as extortion and kidnapping of locals.

The 40-year-old holy warrior, who belonged to Tojay Khel, a Wazir sub-tribe, had joined Uzbeks in Wana before 2007, when Mullah Nazir, a local holy warrior, and local people joined hands against Uzbek murderous Moslems to force them out of the area.

"Hafizullah stayed quiet for a while but later joined the banned TTP and went to Afghanistan. He returned to Pakistain after Mullah Nazir was killed in a drone attack, local officials said, claiming that the TTP affiliates had gone to Afghanistan but those who belonged to Wana were allowed to return.

Sources said that those who had returned to Pakistain grouped together after some time under Hafizullah’s leadership.

"Hafizullah is believed to have been involved in attacks on security forces after the peace talks bet­ween the government and the banned outfit failed," the sources said.

They added Hafizullah escaped an attack following his return from Afghanistan when some unknown persons shot up him, leaving him seriously maimed. After his recovery, he started terrorising the district, they added.

DI KHAN AND LAKKI MARWAT ATTACKS
In Lakki Marwat and Dera Ismail Khan districts, murderous Moslems attacked police in separate incidents, resulting in injuries to at least five coppers.

The attacks, however, were repulsed by police forcing the Lions of Islam to flee the scene.

In DI Khan, a police team deployed for the protection of an anti-polio
...Poliomyelitis is a disease caused by infection with the poliovirus. Between 1840 and the 1950s, polio was a worldwide epidemic. Since the development of polio vaccines the disease has been largely wiped out in the civilized world. However, since the vaccine is known to make Moslem pee-pees shrink and renders females sterile, bookish, and unsubmissive it is not widely used by the turban and automatic weapons set. Currently the disease is only found in Pakistain and Afghanistain...
team came under a gun attack in a remote part of town, resulting in injuries to five officials.

"Unknown murderous Moslems armed with sophisticated weapons opened indiscriminate firing on the police party assigned to protect a team of the polio workers," a police official said, adding that condition of all the injured police personnel was satisfactory.

The official said that District Police Officer Muhammad Shoaib Khan along with a heavy contingent of the police immediately rushed to the spot; however, the murderous Moslems had managed to escape the scene before the police arrived.

"A search operation was launched by the law enforcement agencies in the area [to arrest suspects]," he said. On Wednesday, a similar attack on polio workers left one police guard maimed in the district.

Meanwhile,
...back at the pond, the enormous newt was trying to decide if Gloria was edible...
an attack launched by murderous Moslems on the Wargarey cop shoppe late Thursday night was repulsed by police officials and residents of the area.

Police said that murderous Moslems attacked the cop shoppe located in the Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
sub-division of erstwhile Fata with heavy weapons. However,
there's more than one way to stuff a chicken...
local residents and police repulsed the attack, forcing the murderous Moslems to flee. Police and local fighters remained unhurt in the attack.

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India-Pakistan
Four policemen martyred in Dera, Tank attacks
2022-07-07
[Dawn] Four coppers were martyred in separate attacks in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
and Tank districts on Tuesday.

Dera police front man Imtiaz Ali Janjua said unidentified button men riding cycle of violences opened fire on traffic coppers — ticketing officer Shaukat Mekan and constable Habibullah — near the New Sabzi Mandi area on Tuesday morning. They went titzup.

Following the incident, a contingent of police led by DSP Saddar Hafiz Adnan Khan and SHO Saddar cop shoppe Saleem Baloch reached the spot along with teams of Rescue 1122 and shifted the martyred personnel to District Headquarters Hospital for postmortem.

The front man said the police had cordoned off the area and launched a search operation to trace the attackers.

Later, funeral prayers of the martyred cops were offered at the Ijaz Shaheed Police Lines.

Afterwards, bodies of deaders were dispatched to their native areas for burial.

Meanwhile,
...back at the cheese factory, there was only one thought in the mouse's mind: I can do this! I can do this! Then the trap sprung...
three armed motorcyclists killed two Tank police officials on Nasran-Daudkhel Road near in Nasran village.

The police said constable Naheed Khan went titzup, while constable Hameed Shah succumbed to injuries while being taken to Hospital. They said the button men also took away cash and mobile phones from the dear departed.

The police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against unknown killers and launched a search operation to trace them.

District police officer Waqar Ahmed along with DSP headquarters Inam Khan Gandapur, DSP rural Hussain Ghulam Bangash and DSP Jandola subdivision Alamgir Khan met with families of the martyred personnel and offered condolences.
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India-Pakistan
Four high-profile terrorists killed in Tank: ISPR
2017-02-21
[GEO.TV] Four high-profile bad boyz were potted by Pakistain Army during an intelligence-based operation in Ping Area, Tank, on Monday, according to ISPR.

The operation was conducted against Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
group of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), said the notification issued by ISPR. The group was involved in assassinations, extortion and kidnapping for ransom in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
, Tank and surrounding areas.

The dear departed commanders of the banned
...the word banned seems to have a different meaning in Pakistain than it does in most other places. Or maybe it simply lacks any meaning at all...
organization
have been identified as Zaman alias Toofan, Zulam Din alias Zulmat, Wasiullah and Umar son of Asmatullah Shaheen. Weapons and ammunition were also seized from their possession.

Shaheen, an important member of TTP shura, was killed by another TTP faction due to an internal rift in 2014, according to the ISPR.

Security and law enforcement agencies in a swift response to recent terror attacks have killed more than a hundred terrorists, besides apprehending several miscreants from different parts of the country.
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India-Pakistan
Two kidnappers arrested, girl recovered in Lakki
2014-07-07
[DAWN] LAKKI MARWAT: Police on Saturday claimed to have locked away
Drop the heater, Studs, or you're hist'try!
two kidnappers and freed a young girl from their captivity an hour after she was kidnapped from Tajori town.

A police official identified the accused as Gul Jamal, Mohammad Farooq and Imdadullah, who picked the girl, Mumtaza Bibi, from Tajori bazaar and took her away in their car. He said that the victim with her mother, Paveen Bibi of DI Khan had come to Paakhel Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
region to condole death of her uncle.

The police official quoted Paveen Bibi as saying that the accused started beating her and her daughter with gun butts while they were buying medicines in Tajori bazaar. She said then the three men dragged her daughter into their car and drove away.

The official said on information about the girl's abduction DPO Ismail Kharak directed coppers to secure safe release of the girl and arrest her abductors. He said that coppers noticed a suspected car near Behramkhel village and signalled it to stop. "But two men onboard the vehicle got out and started firing on cops," he added.

The official said after exchange of fire for fifteen minutes the law enforcers overpowered the kidnappers identified as Gul Jamal and Mohammad Farooq and seized two AK-47 assault rifles, a pistol and bullets from them.
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India-Pakistan
A clearer stance
2014-02-27
[DAWN] SLOWLY, the pieces may be falling in place -- again -- for the state to take a clear stance against militancy; for a meaningful and coherent anti-militancy policy to be developed; and for the policy to be implemented to a significant degree. Yesterday, the federal cabinet met and made two key decisions: requiring an unconditional ceasefire by the TTP for talks to progress and approving the National Internal Security Policy. Meanwhile,
...back at the dirigible, Jack stuck the cigar in his mouth, stepped onto the gantry, and asked Got a light, Mac?
Von Schtinken stopped short, lowering the dagger and trying to control his features.
If you light that thing, Herr Armschtröng, he pointed out, his voice tense, we all die!...

the military continued its localised pounding of alleged militancy strongholds yesterday and on Monday a big shot of the TTP, Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
, was killed in North Wazoo, possibly by a rival faction within the TTP or perhaps even a assassination engineered by the security establishment (facts about events in North Waziristan remain as elusive as ever).

Still, perhaps the most relevant change that is again being witnessed is the politicianship taking a strong and clear line. Even the PTI and Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
-- long hawking a dangerously simplistic line on the origins and causes of militancy and terrorism in Pakistain -- appear to have come around to accepting the inviolability of at least one principle when the state negotiates with myrmidon groups -- that the snuffies must not be allowed to dictate conditions to the state. In now publicly demanding that an unconditional ceasefire by the TTP be announced before talks can progress, the PTI has added its critical voice to a growing political consensus on the issue. Unhappily, until now the issue of the state standing firm has been debated through the narrow prism of politics and partisanship. Be it the PTI or the PML-N, while they are the elected representatives of the people and between them run three of the five governments in Pakistain, they also have a duty to protect the foundations of the state itself -- and nothing could be more fundamental than rejecting the demands of a violent insurgency that wants to change the structural and ideological underpinnings of the state.

Welcome as the change in tone may be however, it will surely not be enough to defeat the militancy threat. For that, a combination of military power in myrmidon strongholds, civilian-led counterterrorism efforts in the cities and towns and a more responsive state when it comes to delivering basic services will be required over the long term. The National Internal Security Policy could be that starting point to a holistic approach -- but it will only work if the aims are realistic and are rooted in a gradual strengthening of institutions. Ultimately, a pervasive and complex threat like militancy with roots in the wider public cannot be defeated by fiat. It will only be progressively eliminated if society is nudged along a progressive path and the state is made more responsive to the needs of the citizenry.
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India-Pakistan
TTP rejects govt's call for unconditional ceasefire
2014-02-27
[DAWN] The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain has rejected the government's call for an unconditional ceasefire. "If this is what we have to do, we would have done it 10 years ago," TTP's front man Shahidullah Shahid said on Tuesday.

"It is the government which has waged a war against us and it is for the government to end it now. Let the government hold fire and we shall follow suit," he told this correspondent.

He blamed intelligence agencies for Monday's killing of its senior commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...

He said Shaheen Bhittani, whom he described as a colleague and a veteran of jihad, had been on the hit list of intelligence agencies.

He said that there had been a few other incidents of killing of TTP commanders and his organization suspected them to be the handiwork of the agencies. "This is a drone's alternative. Now we are being hunted through ground drones."
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India-Pakistan
Separate explosions in KP kill one policeman, injure three
2014-01-15
[DAWN] Two separate kabooms occurred in different parts of the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
on Tuesday, leaving one policeman dead and three others injured.

According to the police, security personnel had cordoned off the area near a pull in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
's Regi Model Town area when an kaboom took place. Subsequently, one policeman was killed whereas another sustained injuries.

Police added that the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) personnel defused two bombs worth five kilograms from the site of kaboom.

Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village the snowball down Jack's back had finally melted......
a huge contingent of police personnel reached the area and a probe into the incident went underway.

Separately, a bomb kaboom took place near a police van, injuring two cops near the Kolachi Tehsil area of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...

The bomb was remotely detonated.

Other sources reported that seven coppers were maimed in the blast on Rohri road and that the Station House Officer (SHO) of Kolachi cop shoppe was among those injured in the blast.

The kaboom comes as the country celebrates Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) on 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal, and strict security measures have been put in place across the country.

Mobile phone services were suspended in most parts of the country in order to avoid any untoward incident.

Further details of the incident were not available till the filing of this report.

Dera Ismail Khan sits close to the restive South Wazoo tribal region bifurcated by the semi-autonomous Frontier Region Jandola.

Earlier, four bodies of unidentified people were recovered from Aman Gar area near Kabul River, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Nowshera district.

A policeman of Nowshera Police confirmed that the four people were rubbed out and their bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital for identification.

In a separate incident in Swabi District, an official of the intelligence agencies, Amjad was rubbed out in Swabi bus stand area where he was on duty.
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India-Pakistan
Pakistan Taliban appoint interim leader: spokesman
2013-11-04
[Dawn] The Pak Taliban have appointed an interim leader to head the group temporarily after the death of commander Hakimullah Mehsud in a US drone strike, a front man told AFP Sunday.

Mehsud, who had a $5 million US government price on him, was killed along with four cadres in North Wazoo tribal district near the Afghan border on Friday.

Shahidullah Shahid, the main front man for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) said a permanent replacement had not been chosen yet.

"Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
, the head of the supreme shura, has been appointed as temporary head of the TTP," Shahid told AFP, adding that prayers for Mehsud were still going on.
Yesterday they said another guy was appointed. Guess he musta changed his mind.
When according to the rules of cricket is it okay for us to drone-zap the new guy...
The killing of Mehsud sparked a furious reaction from the Pak government, which accused Washington of sabotaging fledgling efforts towards peace negotiations with the Taliban.
They've got a picture of Asmatullah up at the site. He's got the creepy eyes of a lunatic.
Interior minister Chaudhry Nisar said a group of holy mans had been ready to go and meet the TTP to initiate talks, which have been backed by all major political parties, when the drone struck.

Shahid refused to say there was no chance of the talks going ahead, but accused the government of kowtowing to Washington and cutting a deal to "sell" the bad turbans.

"Nobody in history has ever negotiated with slaves," he said.

"We were waiting for a meeting, while the Pakistain army and government was sitting with the US finalising deals to sell us." And he stopped short of vowing Dire Revenge™ for Mehsud, who took over as TTP chief after founder Baitullah Mehsud in a drone strike in 2009.

"Time will tell whether we take Dire Revenge™ of his martyrdom or not," he said.

In the past, the TTP has responded to its leaders being killed with deadly violence.
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India-Pakistan
Bride among five shot dead in Lower Dir
2013-04-29
[Pak Daily Times] Five people, including a bride, were killed when unidentified gunnies opened fire on a wedding party in an area of Lower Dir in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
, officials said on Sunday. Officials said the incident took place in Jandola Samar Bagh where gunnies attacked the vehicles of a wedding party, leaving five people dead.

The bride and two other women were also killed, as the wedding party travelled from Samar Bagh to Tatar area.

Police cited old enmity as the reason behind the incident, and said that two people were also injured in the attack. The dead and the injured were shifted to Lower Dir Civil Hospital. Police claimed that the attacker, who managed to flee after the attack, hailed from Bajaur Agency, aka Turban Central
...Smallest of the agencies in FATA. The Agency administration is located in Khar. Bajaur is inhabited almost exclusively by Tarkani Pashtuns, which are divided into multiple bickering subtribes. Its 52 km border border with Afghanistan's Kunar Province makes it of strategic importance to Pakistain's strategic depth...
.
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India-Pakistan
Waziristan admin, PTI head for showdown
2012-10-06
[Dawn] The political administration of South Wazoo Agency and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
are heading for a showdown as the former insists that the situation in the tribal area is not ripe for a big gathering while the latter seems adamant to go ahead with its planned peace march.

Well-placed sources said that the administration had received orders not to allow the rally to enter South Waziristan. These sources said that the federal government had intimated the authorities concerned to stop participants of the rally ahead of Frontier Region Jandola.

"Entry of the rally in South Waziristan and Jandola is out of question. They will not be allowed even get to Tank city," said a bigwig familiar with the situation. He said that there was a high threat perception for the rally and the administration would not put lives of people at risk.

"This is in the interest of the people to give up rally, otherwise they will not be permitted to go ahead with their programme," he said. On the other hand, South Waziristan PTI organiser Dost Mohammad Mehsud said that the peace march would proceed to Kotkai according to the scheduled programme.

"We have reports that the political administration will not let the marchers to reach Waziristan or Jandola. But we will hold protest meeting on the place where the administration disallow us further journey," he said.

Giving details of the programme, Mr Mesud said that PTI Chairman Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who ain't the brightest knife in the national drawer...
and others, including foreigners, would reach Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
on Saturday night. They would stay at Hathala Farmhouse situated along the main highway between Tank and Dera.
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India-Pakistan
PTI denied permission for S. Waziristan rally
2012-10-03
[Dawn] The administration of South Wazoo Agency has refused to allow the Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf to hold a rally in Kotkai area of the conflict-hit region.

"Neither the condition in Waziristan is favourable nor the political administration has the capacity to provide security to about 100,000 participants of the rally in Kotkai," an official said on Monday.

He said the administration had intelligence reports that beturbanned goons might attack the rally and the authorities could not take a risk because local people were also opposing the planned demonstration in their area.

"The administration has received applications from local people against the plan to hold the rally in Kotkai," he said.

People displaced by violence in the area have recently been repatriated from camps.

The PTI is reported to have sought permission from the administration to allow its chief Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
to hold the rally in Kotkai, near the Jandola Frontier Region.

Local PTI leader Dost Muhammad met Political Agent Shahidullah at his office in Tank on Monday and discussed the matter.

Initially, the party had proposed to hold the rally in Spinkai Raghzai near Kotkai.

"The administration informed the PTI leader that it was not possible to allow political parties to hold any public meeting or rally in any part of South Waziristan," the official said.

Imran Khan said at a presser in Islamabad that a 30-member delegation of foreigners had arrived in the country to take part in the 'peace rally' in South Waziristan.

He said the Mehsud, Burki and Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
tribes had welcomed the plan and pledged to provide security.
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India-Pakistan
Taliban will not disrupt PTI's peace march, says Imran
2012-10-02
[Dawn] Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaf
...a political party in Pakistan. PTI was founded by former Pakistani cricket captain and philanthropist Imran Khan. The party's slogan is Justice, Humanity and Self Esteem, each of which is open to widely divergent interpretations....
(PTI) chief Imran Khan
... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems...
on Monday said that he has received a message from Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) assuring that they will not disrupt the PTI's peace march towards South Wazoo, DawnNews reported.

Speaking exclusively in DawnNews' programme "Faisala Awam Ka," Khan reiterated that there is no military solution to Waziristan problem. "If the fight in Waziristan is not stopped now it will be stretched to ten more years," he added.

The PTI chief claimed that tribal people will not only be alongside the state but will also provide solution to militancy if end of the military operation is announced.

Khan said Mehsud, Burki and Bhittani
...a Pashtun tribe centered on Jandola, in Tank district. They are the hereditary enemies of the Mehsuds, unless there are furriners or infidels around, in which case they share ammunition and targeting data...
tribes of Waziristan have welcomed the peace rally. The tribal leaders had also assured the security of the participants of the rally, he added.
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