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India-Pakistan

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India-Pakistan

Two shopkeepers killed, as many passers-by injured in groups clash in Gujrat

2019-09-03

[DAWN] GUJRAT: Two shopkeepers were killed on Sunday and as many passersby, including a woman, sustained bullet injuries allegedly when armed men of two local politicians (who happen to be brothers) belonging to rival parties — PML-Q and PML-N — exchanged fire in Kotla Bazaar in Kakrali police precincts over rent collection.

The rival groups are being respectively headed by Naeem Raza Kotla of the PML-Q and MNA Abid Raza Kotla of the PML-N who have a history of political and family rivalry spanning over the past 12 years.

The fresh clash, according to police and local sources, erupted over collection of monthly rent of some shops owned by the Kotla family located in the main bazaar of Kotla Town.

They said the clash triggered when armed men of PML Q’s Naeem Raza, also a former advisor to the Punjab chief minister (in 2002), demanded the rent from some shopkeepers doing business in the Kotla family’s market. Meanwhile, armed men of MNA Abid Raza of PML-N also reached there, and challenged their rivals.

In the ensuing exchange of fire between the rival groups, two brothers --Shahzad Ahmed and Ijaz Ahmed — belonging to Saddowal village, who ran a tailoring shop in the same market, sustained bullet injuris. As a result, Shahzad died on the spot whereas Ijaz later succumbed to his critical injuries at the Aziz Bhatti Shaheed Teaching Hospital (ABSTH).

However, none of the armed men resorting to crossfire were hurt in the incident.

A passerby woman, Tazeem Bibi and an onlooker Zafar Iqbal were also injured in the crossfire. They too were shifted to the ABSTH where their condition was said to be stable.

Superintendent of Police (investigation) Ghulam Mustafa Gillani and Kharian DSP Asad Ishaq heading a contingent reached the scene where homicide unit of the police collected evidence.

Meanwhile, the families and relatives of the deceased brothers staged a protest demonstration by placing the bodies on the GT Road, against delay in registration of double murder case against the culprits, causing disruption in traffic.

Following the protest, the police booked heads of the both groups — MNA Abid Raza and Naeem Raza on charges of double murder under sections 302, 324, 148 and 149 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the report of Javed Ahmed, the third brother of the deceased men.

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India-Pakistan

Lawyer held in blasphemy case in Sahiwal

2019-08-04

[DAWN] Arifwala police have arrested a lawyer on charges of sharing through social media `blasphemous and hate content.’

Usman Farid Chishti faces proceedings under the PPC 295/C and other relevant laws for sharing a post having blasphemous content and hate material against security establishment and superior judiciary.

The FIR was registered on the complaint of Ijaz Ahmed, also a lawyer.

Arifwala Circle DSP Ghulam Muhammad confirmed the arrest of Chishti on the recommendations of a committee headed by Pakpattan DPO Ibadat Nisar.

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Sri Lanka

Day 6: Sri Lanka attacks: 16 more arrests, death count reduced to 253, hunt for more jihadis

2019-04-26

Day 5’s events can be seen here. More about the Ahmadi refugees fleeing their homes here.

[IsraelTimes] Sri Lanka’s prime minister said Thursday that suspects linked to the coordinated Easter Sunday bomb attacks remain at large and could have access to explosives.

Some of the suspects “may go out for a suicide attack,” Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe said in an interview with The Associated Press.

Approximately 250 people were killed in the string of suicide bombings at churches and luxury hotels in and around the capital, Colombo, Sri Lanka’s health ministry said late Thursday. The death toll was revised down from previous police estimates of 359 people.

Police, meanwhile, issued a public appeal for information about three women and two men suspected of involvement in the attacks.

Wickremesinghe also said that the father of two of the suspected suicide bombers, Colombo spice dealer Mohammad Yusuf Ibrahim,

...alternatively (below), Mohammed Yoonus Ibrahim. Within a day or two no doubt the correct version will become clear,.

had been arrested. He described him as a leading businessman active in politics known as “Ibrahim Hajiar,” a Sri Lankan term for Muslims who have gone on religious pilgrimages to Mecca. The prime minister expressed doubt about Ibrahim’s complicity in the attack.

“People like that would not have wanted their sons to blow themselves up,” he said.

Sri Lankan authorities have blamed a local extremist group, National Towheed Jamaat, whose leader, alternately named Mohammed Zahran or Zahran Hashmi, became known to Muslim leaders three years ago for his incendiary online speeches.

On Wednesday, junior defense minister Ruwan Wijewardene said the attackers had broken away from National Towheed Jamaat and another group, which he identified only as “JMI.”

Wijewardene said many of the suicide bombers were highly educated and came from well-to-do families. The prime minister said it appeared that Sri Lanka’s wealthiest and best-traveled Muslims were most susceptible to the doctrine professed by the Islamic State group.

“They were too educated and therefore, they were misled,” Wickremesinghe said.

The bombers were wealthy enough to have financed the entire operation themselves, though they would have needed outside help for training and bomb-building expertise, Wickremsinghe said.

He said that authorities still hadn’t confirmed whether Zahran, who was supposed to have led one of suicide missions, was among the corpses recovered from the scenes or still at large.

Wickremesinghe said Thursday that security forces were trying to help Muslim Ahmadis from Pakistan seeking refugee status in Sri Lanka, who said they had been attacked and beaten in the days following the bombings.

An Nahar adds:

Sri Lanka's Catholic church suspended all public services over security fears on Thursday, as thousands of troops joined the hunt for suspects in deadly Easter bombings that killed nearly 360 people.

Authorities made fresh arrests and stepped up security measures.

A senior Catholic priest told AFP that all public services were being suspended and all churches closed "on the advice of security forces". Private burials will still be carried out.

Security forces using state of emergency powers arrested 16 more suspects overnight, bringing the total in custody to 74 since the attacks.

Brigadier Sumith Atapattu said the army had increased its deployment on the streets from 5,000 to 6,300, with the navy and air force also deploying an additional 2,000 personnel.

Authorities also banned drone flights.

The Daily Mail has more about jacket wallah Abdul Lathief Jameel Mohamed, who failed to detonate at the Taj Samudra hotel, here:

His bomb malfunctioned and went off at a small guesthouse, killing one tourist

Mohamed studied aviation engineering at at Kingston University in London from 2006

His sister has told MailOnline how he became radicalised while living in Australia

Mohamed's wife has been taken into police custody

Another Daily Mail article has more about brothers Inshaf and Ilham Ibrahim, who kaboomed at the Shangri-La and Cinnamon Grand hotels, here:

Workers at family firm said Ilham, the younger brother, radicalised his sibling

He was previously arrested and then released by police, it has been claimed

The lads’ father, Mohammed Yoonus Ibrahim arrested on suspicion of helping his sons plan attack

Indian intelligence sources said Ijas Ahmed Ibrahim, 30,

...alternately Ijaz Ahmed Ibrahim...
Mohammed's third son, was also questioned about the attack

Several family members had been under surveillance before attacks, but evidence hadn't been 'sufficient' enough to take them into custody.

Sri Lanka Health Ministry revises death toll of easter Sunday bombings to 253 from previous 359 after a calculation error
[TWITTER]

Sri Lanka Health Ministry revises death toll of easter Sunday bombings to 253 from previous 359 after a calculation error
— Azzam Ameen (@AzzamAmeen) April 25, 2019

Sri Lanka police arrest 3 persons along with 21 hand grenade type, locally made low explosives
[TWITTER]

#BREAKING: Sri Lanka police arrest 3 persons along with 21 hand grenade type, locally made low explosives & 6 swords during a search operation in Modera pic.twitter.com/fX5YyKJlY7
— Amichai Stein (@AmichaiStein1) April 25, 2019

Another #IS related group (at-Taqwa Media Foundation) has released a new propaganda video including perpetrators of #SriLankaAttacks. pic.twitter.com/q4PXOHyO3U
— Melisa (@cmellaniac) April 25, 2019

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India-Pakistan

5 including husband arrested for murder of public prosecutor in Hafizabad

2019-02-04

[DAWN] Hafizabad District Police Officer (DPO) Sajid Kiani on Sunday announced the arrest of five suspects including the husband of public prosecutor Naila Amjad, who was rubbed out on January 11 in front of her house.

DPO Kiani said a special investigative team comprising sub-divisional police officer (SDPO) Saddar Circle Mohammad Khalid, Station House Officer (SHO) City Ijaz Ahmed Butt, in charge Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) Ahad Hassan Tarar, Sub-Inspector Hafiz Ahmed Jamal and Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Badar Munir, had been formed to investigate the murder of Naila Amjad.

Assistant District Public Prosecutor Naila Amjad was rubbed out in front of her house on January 11 in Hafizabad, said Kiani.

Earlier, police said Amjad would routinely visit a gym along with her husband Muhammad Zaman, a teacher at a private school. On the day of the incident, as the couple left the house, Zaman went to an adjacent street to bring his car when two motorcyclists shot at her and escaped.

Critically injured Amjad breathed her last while being shifted to the District Headquarters Hospital Hafizabad where doctors later conducted an autopsy of the body.

Police registered a case against two unidentified suspects under Sections 302 and 34 of Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) on the complaint of Sajid Ali Awan, the brother of the deceased.

DPO Kiani today said evidence was collected from the Punjab Forensic Science Agency's (PFSA) crime scene unit and through the use of modern technology the crime was investigated. Kiani added that he would supervise developments in the case on a daily basis.

As per the DPO, Amjad's husband was taken into custody on the basis of substantial evidence. During the initial investigation, Zaman confessed to the murder and added that he had hired professional hitmen named Rizwan and Javed with the help of his brother Ali Raza and a cousin Tahir alias Baga. He added that he had paid the hitmen Rs0.2 million for completing the job.

According to Kiani, the suspects had run away to other provinces where they were traced with the help of advanced technology. He added that Zaman, the main suspect, was an IT expert and had been planning the murder for six months — thinking of a way as to not leave any evidence.

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India-Pakistan

Three IED blasts rock Peshawar locality

2017-05-21

[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Three improvised bombs went off in the limits of Daudzai cop shoppe here early on Friday. However,
a good lie finds more believers than a bad truth...
there were no casualties reported.

The blasts took place in Ghani Rehman Qila area located along the Charsadda Road on the outskirts of the quiet provincial capital.

A Duadzai cop shoppe official told this correspondent that the first blast took place outside the residence of Ijaz Ahmed at 3.30am, slightly damaging the house’s gate. The second blast targeting vehicle of Mohammad Younas, a cousin of Ijaz, took place at around 5.50am, the official said, adding Younas, who was coming to visit his relatives after hearing of the blast occurred on the Charsadda Road, escaped unhurt in the attack.

The third kaboom occurred near a garbage dump in the same area, the official said, recalling that Ijaz’s father, Khaista Meer, was also killed in an IED kaboom in 2012.

A senior police official said the reason behind the blasts was personal enmity, which also claimed the life of Khaista Meer.

He said one of the devices weighed around 200 grams, while the other about 600 grams. "All the three blasts took place in short distance of each other," the official said. The CTD registered an FIR and started investigations.

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India-Pakistan

One dead, four injured in clash

2016-10-16

[DAWN] RAW
... India's Research and Analysis Wing, Pakistain's equivalent of the Boogie Man...
ALPINDI: A clash left one woman dead and four others injured, including a pedestrian and a ward master from the Benazir Bhutto
... 11th Prime Minister of Pakistain in two non-consecutive terms from 1988 until 1990 and 1993 until 1996. She was the daughter of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, founder of the Pakistain People's Party, who was murdered at the instigation of General Ayub Khan. She was murdered in her turn by person or persons unknown while campaigning in late 2007. Suspects include, to note just a few, Baitullah Mehsud, General Pervez Musharraf, the ISI, al-Qaeda in Pakistain, and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, who shows remarkably little curiosity about who done her in...
Hospital (BBH) on Friday, police said.

Three injured, Mazram Bibi, Raja Tanveer and Ibrar Elahi, were brought to BBH. They were followed by their rivals, who then opened fire in the hospital, injuring two other people including a ward master.

Police claimed to have incarcerated
Book 'im, Mahmoud!
five of the attackers, and said a hunt has been launched for the individuals who escaped. Mazram Bibi, who was critically injured, was pronounced dead by hospital doctors.

The clash began between Ijaz Ahmed and Shahbaz, outside their home on the Service Road in Sadiqabad. Their relative Mazram Bibi and three others ‐ including Shakeel Ahmed, a pedestrian ‐ were maimed in the crossfire.

The Ameer Afzal group, the other party in the clash, followed the injured to BBH and started quarrelling with the relatives of the injured. Someone involved in the quarrel then pulled out a gun and opened fire. Raja Noman, a ward master on duty in the emergency ward, was injured.

Police reinforcements were later called in to control the situation.

According to witnesses, once the gunfire began in the emergency ward, several patient attendants ran outside the ward in panic.

DSP Raja Taifoor said all the individuals involved in the clash belonged to the same family. Mr Taifoor named Khaliq Mehmood as the individual who opened fire in the hospital.

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India-Pakistan

Two hanged in Faisalabad

2015-05-28

[DAWN] FAISALABAD: Two death row prisoners were hanged in the central jail here on Tuesday.

Iftikhar Ahmed had gunned down Allah Rakha, his brother Ramzan and relative Ashraf in 2001 in Model Town.

Second condemn prisoner Asif Zeb of Chak 111-NB, Sargodha, had killed his rival Ijaz Ahmed in 1998.

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India-Pakistan

Lawyers, litigants come to blows

2015-03-13

[DAWN] A free for all erupted on sessions court premises here on Wednesday involving lawyers, litigants and police after a man reportedly slapped a lawyer in front of a courtroom.

Following the incident, the lawyers went on a strike and boycotted the courts.

The ugly incident happened following hearing of a case registered against a lawyer, Aftab Sohal, for allegedly blocking public path. The complainant, a resident of the same village where Mr Sohal lived, got started the paperwork but haven't done much else against him with Jalalpur Jattan Sadar cop shoppe.

The litigant slapped the lawyer when they came out of the court of Additional Session Judge Zafar Iqbal Tarar. This infuriated other lawyers present there who scuffled with the litigants and some coppers doing their duty.

The lawyers alleged that ASI Asghar Shah, the investigation officer of the case, instigated the litigants to attack them.

Soon after the incident, District Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmed reached there and held negotiations with the representatives of the District Bar Association, assuring them of action against the police officials if they were found guilty.

Later, Civil Lines police started the paperwork but haven't done much else against a litigant and four police officials on the report of Aftab Sohal under sections 506/2 and 109 of the PPC.

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India-Pakistan

Qazi Qassem's Top 20 Most Wanted in Punjab

2015-03-13

[DAWN] 1 Name: Mati-ur-Rehman
Other name(s): Samad, Ustaad Talha
Head money: Rs10,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide Attack on then Prime Minister of Pakistan Shaukat Aziz, Civil Lines Karachi bomb blast.
Affiliated with: Sipah-i-Sahaba/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (SSP/LJ), Jaish-i-Muhammad (JM)

2 Name: Mansoor
Other name(s): Ibrahim, Chotta Ibrahim, Hasaan
Head money: Rs5,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide Attack on then President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf
Affiliated with: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ), Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

3 Name: Qari Ehsan ul Haq
Other name(s): Basit, Ustaad Huzaifa
Head money: Rs5,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide Attack on then President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf
Affiliated with: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ)

4 Name: Rana Muhammad Afzal
Other name(s): Fazal Ullah, Noor Khan
Head money: Rs5,000,000
Major crime(s): Attack on Saddar Kabirwala district, Khanewal, 2005
Affiliated with: Jaish-i-Muhammad (JM) [Masoor Azhar Group], Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

5 Name: Qari Obaidullah
Other name(s): Qari Imran, Hakeem Nasir, Abdul Rahim, Qari Sahib
Head money: Rs5,000,000
Major crime(s): Various attacks in Mianwali, Multan, DG Khan and Faisalabad
Affiliated with: Ameer Lashkar-i-Khurasan, Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

6 Name: Muhammad Hammad Akbar Khan
Other name(s): Ilyas Moavia
Head money: Rs2,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide attack on PTS Sargodha/PAF bus Sargodha in 2007
Affiliated with: Jaish-i-Muhammad (JM), Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

7 Name: Muhammad Tayyab
Other name(s): Baba Ji
Head money: Rs2,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide attack on PTS Sargodha/PAF bus Sargodha in 2007
Affiliated with: Jaish-i-Muhammad (JM)

8 Name: Faiz Muhammad
Other name(s): Kaskat, Qasim
Head money: Rs2,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto, Rawalpindi in 2007
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), BM

9 Name: Ikram Ullah
Other name(s): None
Head money: Rs2,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide attack on Benazir Bhutto, Rawalpindi in 2007
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), BM

10 Name: Qari Muhammad Yasin
Other name(s): Osama, Aslam, Hakeem, Sangarbar, Ustad Mushtaq, Sabir, Arif Khan
Head money: Rs2,000,000
Major crime(s): Various attacks in Rawalpindi, Attock and Lahore
Affiliated with: Sipah-i-Sahaba/Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (SSP/LJ)

11 Name: Noor-ul-Ameen
Other name(s): Khalid Pathan
Head money: Rs1,000,000
Major crime(s): Attack A-R Bazar, Rawalpindi in 2004
Affiliated with: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ)

12 Name: Abdul Hameed Watto
Other name(s): Watto, Abu Tariq
Head money: Rs1,000,000
Major crime(s): Involved in suicide attack on GPO Chowk and Naval War College Lahore
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), BM

13 Name: Bilal aka Abdul Rahim
Head money: Rs1,000,000
Major crime(s): Various attacks in Sargodha
Affiliated with: Jaish-i-Muhammad (JM)

14 Name: Muhammad Zubair
Other name(s): Mugheera, Farooq
Head money: Rs2,500,000
Major crime(s): Involved in ISI Qasim Bela, Multan
Affiliated with: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ)/Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

15 Name: Muhammad Majid
Other name(s): Abdul Majid
Head money: Rs500,000
Major crime(s): Attack in Rahim Yar Khan
Affiliated with: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ)

16 Name: Abdul Waqar
Other name(s): Waqar Azeem
Head money: Rs200,000
Major crime(s): Two attacks in Vehari
Affiliated with: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ)

17 Name: Ahmed aka Shareef aka Ayaz Punjabi
Major crime(s): Two attacks on Sakhi Sarwar district, DG Khan
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

18 Name: Zara Ali aka Naeemullah
Major crime(s): Two attacks on Sakhi Sarwar district, DG Khan
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

19 Name: Ayub aka Saifullah
Major crime(s): Two attacks on Sakhi Sarwar district, DG Khan
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)

20 Name: Ijaz Ahmed
Major crime(s): Attack on Cantt, Multan
Affiliated with: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) [Qari Obaidullah Group]

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India-Pakistan

Three TTP Militants Arrested

2014-12-17

[Dawn] GUJRAT: The Gujrat police claim to have captured three more murderous Moslems belonging to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP, Asmatullah Moaviya group) wanted in the murder of two religious figures.

The accused had slaughtered Dr Naqi Husain Shah of Lalamusa and Mubarak Ahmed of Toba Tek Singh after kidnapping them separately for ransom back in 2009 and 2010, respectively.

The two main leaders of the group, Afzal Fauji of Kunjah and Hafiz Wajid of Kotla Arab Ali Khan, had already been placed in durance vile
Please don't kill me!
by the law-enforcement agencies. Both are on physical remand from the Gujranwala Anti-Terrorism Court.

These murderous Moslems are yet to appear before the Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
Anti-Terrorism Court in connection with the murder and kidnapping of Mubarak Ahmed as they had been in Gujrat police custody in connection with the killing of Dr Naqi Husain, a homeopath.

Gujrat District Police Officer Rai Ijaz Ahmed confirmed the arrests but did not share the identity of the third one who was captured from Toba Tek Singh.

He told Dawn the other two arrested murderous Moslems were Nazim alias Kalu of Tibbi Ganda village of Kunjah and Ghulam Mustafa of Mandi Bahauddin. They would be presented before the Gujranwala ATC for physical remand.

He said one of the suspects had been an official of the Gujrat jail police who was dismissed later.

Sources in law-enforcement agencies, however, identified the third holy warrior as Ahmed who had formerly been the head of the religious organization ?Ahmedul Furqan? but later on he abandoned the organization and joined holy warrior group?s activities.

A bigwig told Dawn Afzal Fauji was the criminal mastermind of terror and sectarian activities occurred in and around Gujrat district in the last few years whereas Hafiz Wajid had once been the head of the TTP (Moaviya group) in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
.

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India-Pakistan

Five killed in Peshawar suicide attack on FC convoy

2014-09-25

[DAWN] A suicide kaboom targeting a senior military official killed at least five people in a 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.
Cantonment area on Tuesday.

The jacket wallah blew up his explosives-laden vehicle on Sher Shah Suri Road, not far from the Governor House, Frontier Constabulary headquarters, the Cantonment railway station and the Peshawar Press Club.

"The moving vehicle targeted the convoy of Frontier Corps DIG Brigadier Khalid Javaid who narrowly escaped with a few injuries. An FC soldier, a woman and a passerby were killed on the spot," the Capital City Police Officer of Peshawar, Ijaz Ahmed Khan said. Two others died in hospital.

The blast destroyed three military vehicles, a rickshaw and a cycle of violence and damaged several cars on the busy thoroughfare.

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India-Pakistan

Gunmen kill three policemen, passerby in Peshawar

2014-07-19

[DAWN] PESHAWAR: Three coppers and a passerby were killed and three others injured when unidentified gunnies attacked a police party in Pishtkhara area on the outskirts of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
capital on Friday.

Superintendent of Police (SP) Cant, Muhammad Faisal confirmed that three coppers and a civilian have been killed and three including two cops and another passerby maimed in the ambush.

"The coppers were breaking their fast at a local restaurant at Landi Akhun Ahmed neighbourhood on the outskirts of the city when unknown assailants opened indiscriminate firing on their van killing three coppers and a waiter of the restaurant on the spot," he said.

The dead and the injured have been shifted to the Khyber Teaching Hospital.

An official of the KTH hospital said that seven injured were brought to the hospital where two coppers including ASI Noor Muhammad and driver of the police mobile van Baz Muhammad gave up the ghost.

The eyewitnesses said that the coppers were staying for Iftar near a roadside restaurant when the attackers riding a car opened fire on them resulting in the death of three cops and maimed four others.

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.
police chief Ijaz Ahmed confirmed to the media that coppers were having Iftar out in the open when targetted by the miscreants riding a white car. He also confirmed the number of casualties.

Funeral of the slain coppers was offered at the police lines which was attended by the speaker of the KP Assembly, Asad Qaiser besides the high ranking coppers. Later the bodies of the slain coppers were shifted to their ancestral towns for burial.

Meanwhile,
...back at the bunker, his Excellency called a hurried meeting of his closest advisors. It was to be his last. They discussed the officers's efficiency rating system...
the bomb disposal squad defused a bomb near Khyber police checkpost in Hayatabad. Sources said that two kilograms of homemade kaboom was recovered and seized near the checkpost.

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