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4 soldiers martyred in terrorist attack along Pak-Iran border in Balochistan’s Kech: ISPR

2023-04-02

[Dawn] Four soldiers were martyred on Saturday in a terrorist attack along the Pak-Iran
Iran

...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate ~~Jews~~ ~~Zionists~~ Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
border in the Jalgai sector of Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
’s Kech district, according to the military’s media wing.

A blurb from the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said: "On April 1, 2023, a group of murderous Moslems operating from Iranian side attacked a routine border patrol of Pak security forces operating along Pakistain-Iran Border in Jalgai Sector, District Kech.

"In the attack, unfortunately, four soldiers, including Naik Shair Ahmed, Lance Naik Muhammad Asghar, Sepoy Muhammad Irfan and Sepoy Abdur Rasheed, were critically injured and later embraced martyrdom."

The ISPR said that "necessary contact" with the Iranian side was being made for "effective action against terrorists" on their territory and to prevent such incidents in the future.

Update from Khaama Press at 3:30 p.m. ET:

Insurgent ethnic Baluch nationalist groups operating on both sides of the border have fought for decades for a more significant share of regional resources.

The Balochistan Liberation Army took responsibility for the attack and claimed to be fighting for the independence of Balochistan, which is rich in minerals, water and natural resources.

The Baloch people also claim that they face discrimination from the government. However,
a hangover is the wrath of grapes...
the Pak authorities reject the claims.

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India-Pakistan

Multan woman handed death sentence for husband's murder

2017-10-18

[DAWN] An anti-terrorism court in Multan on Tuesday sentenced a woman to death on two counts while also handing her a life imprisonment sentence after finding her guilty of murdering her husband.

A first information report had been registered against the accused, Yasmeen, at Ludden Vehari Police Station in Multan on June 23.

Judge Malik Khalid Mehmood, in his verdict said that Yasmeen has been found guilty of "the brutal and gruesome murder of her husband," Muhammad Imran Ashraf.

"The convict sprinkled acid on Muhammad Irfan Ashraf, entailing his death," the verdict noted.

Yasmeen was sentenced to death under the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 and the Pakistain Penal Code. She has also been made liable to pay a fine of Rs20,000.

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India-Pakistan

Inspector gets death for killing two lawyers in Daska

2016-01-16

[DAWN] SIALKOT: An anti-terrorism court handed down death sentence on four counts and 30-year hard jail to a convict police inspector in a murder case of two Daska-based senior lawyers on Thursday.

The court ordered Shahzad Warraich to pay Rs400,000 as financial compensation to the families of the two slain lawyers.

Judge Chaudhry Imtiaz Ahmed awarded death sentence on two counts under section 302 of the PPC and another two counts under 7-ATA to the convict.

According to the prosecution, the convict police inspector had rubbed out Daska Bar Association president Rana Khalid Abbas and senior lawyer Muhammad Irfan Chohan in front of the main gate of the Daska City cop shoppe on May 25, 2015, when lawyers clashed with tehsil municipal workers over some issue and allegedly abused police when it intervened.

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India-Pakistan

Three ST men, JI worker shot dead in city

2013-06-04

[Dawn] Three workers of the Sunni Tehrik
...formed in Karachi in 1992 under by Muhammad Saleem Qadri. It quickly fell to trading fisticuffs and assassinations with the MQM and the Sipah-e-Sahaba, with at least a half dozen of its major leaders rubbed out. Sunni Tehreek arose to become the primary opposition to the Deobandi Binori Mosque, headed by Nizamuddin Shamzai, who was eventually bumped off by person or persons unknown. ST's current leadership has heavily criticized the Deobandi Jihadi leaders, accusing them of being sponsored by Indian Intelligence agencies as well as involvement in terrorist activities...
and an activist of the Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
were bumped off in the city on Sunday, police said.

They said that a violent clash between two rival groups in Shah Faisal Colony No 5 on Sunday led to the killing of three persons and injuries to two others.

They said that an exchange of gunfire between the two groups has also triggered fear and anxiety among the residents.

Shah Faisal SP Irfan Mukhtar Bhutto said: "Three persons bumped off while two others sustained injuries in the clash".

"We are investigating as to what had triggered the fighting," said DIG-East Zone Captain Tahir Naveed.

He said the victims were said to be workers of the ST.

The head of the emergency department of the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Dr Seemin Jamali, said that two men were brought dead from Shah Faisal Colony and they were identified as Jawad alias Sunni and Fahim Abdul Majid.

She added that a third body was also brought to the health facility from the same area later on. The victim was identified as Muhammad Irfan.

She said that one maimed, Syed Karar Hussain, was brought at the hospital for treatment from the same area with bullet wounds to his leg.

A front man for the ST told Dawn that their three workers were murdered in Shah Faisal Colony.

Tension prevailed in the locality following the violent clash as shops and other commercial activities were shutdown.

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India-Pakistan

Pakistan tests nuclear-capable missile

2012-09-17

Pakistan on Monday conducted a successful test fire of the indigenously developed multi tube Cruise Missile Hatf-VII (Babur), having a range of 700 kilometers.

Babur Crusie Missile is a low flying, terrain hugging missile, which can strike targets both at Land and Sea with pin point accuracy. It carries stealth features. Equipped with modern cruise missile technology of Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) and Digital Scene Matching and Area Co-relation (DSMAC), it can carry both nuclear and conventional warheads.

The missile was launched from a state of the art Multi Tube Missile Launch Vehicle (MLV), which significantly enhances the targeting and deployment options of Babur Weapon system.

The test was witnessed by Director General Strategic Plans Division Lieutenant General (R) Khalid Ahmed Kidwai, Chairman National Engineering and Scientific Commission (NESCOM) Mr. Muhammad Irfan Burney, senior officers from the armed forces and strategic organizations.

In todays test National Command Authoritys fully automated Strategic Command and Control Support System (SCCSS) was once again employed. It enables robust Command and Control capability of all strategic assets with round the clock situational awareness in a digitized network centric environment to decision makers at National Command Centre (NCC). The system has the added capability of real time remote monitoring of missile flight path. The test consolidates and strengthens Pakistans deterrence capability and National security.

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India-Pakistan

Kukikhel areas of Tirah fall to militants

2012-06-12

[Dawn] Taliban took full control of Kukikhel
...a tribe of primitives inhabiting Khyber Agency. They are a branch of the Afridi tribe. Traditionally they have been migratory, tromping between Jamrud and the Rajgal valley with the seasons. The tribe has had mustache-cursing relationships with several other tribes, including the Zakkakhel and Kambarkhel, and with the Mullagori. They make welcome most anyone with a turban and automatic weapons, but every once in awhile they get together a tribal lashkar to mollify the government...
-dominated areas of Tirah as more families left their homes and moved to Jamrud.

Sources said that besides fortifying their positions in the newly-occupied localities, Taliban had also torched houses of some Kukikhel elders in Bagh and Sra Vela. They said Taliban in announcements made on loudspeakers from local mosques had asked residents to hoist white flags atop their houses and volunteer one person from each family to join the Taliban.

"The entire Tirah valley, except Bazaar Zakhakhel, is now under effective control of three cut-thoat groups, Tehrik-e-Taliban
Pakistain (Tariq Afridi group), Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency

...
-led Lashkar-e-Islam and Ansaarul Islam," confirmed Bakhtiar Mohmand, assistant political agent of Jamrud.

He said that while Taliban entrenched themselves in Kukikhel areas, Mangal Bagh was holding the fort in Sipah and Malikdinkhel areas, but the Zakhakhel tribe was in control of Bazaar Zakhakhel.

The official said that his administration had made arrangements to shift Kukikhel families to Jalozai camp, established for internally displaced families of Bara, but so far no-one had approached them.

"Most of the displaced families have opted to live with their relatives in different parts of Jamrud and only a few were without any abode but they too were reluctant to go to Jalozai and preferred rented houses," he said.

Muhammad Irfan, a resident of Jamrud, told Dawn that except for Puk Darra and Daman-e-Koh, all areas, including Sra Vela, Bagh, Pathai, Ghakhai, Baarhi Saporhi and Maniyakhel, had fallen to Taliban and residents had moved to Ali Masjid and Ghundi in Jamrud. He however, denied that any offer had been made by the political administration to any of the displaced families and said they had not received any assistance from local authorities.

He said residents of Puk Darra and Daman-e-Koh were also eager to leave their homes for fear of Taliban, but all routes leading to Jamrud and Bazaar Zakhakhel were either occupied by Taliban or activists of Lashkar-e-Islam. Muhammad Irfan conceded that the Kukikhel lashkar which was no match for the Taliban had to succumb to the Taliban pressure.

He said that except for two Kukikhel elders in Tirah, Malik Zabita Khan and Malik Zaboor, all other notables were against the formation of a lashkar or peace committee against Taliban in Tirah. "We were short of arms and ammunition and financial resources whereas Taliban were well-equipped and well-trained and, therefore, we would not be able to hold our ground for long against them," he acknowledged. He also said that while Malik Zabita Khan and his family had come to Jamrud, Malik Zaboor fled to Afghanistan.

Both the Kukikhel elders had in February this year convened a jirga of their tribe and ordered all cut-thoat groups including Taliban to leave their area or face resistance.

In 2010, Taliban of the Tariq Afridi group established some hideouts in Dwa Thoe and Mehraban Kali after they had been forced to flee from Darra Adam Khel by security forces. Clashes have been taking place since then with Taliban carrying out at least two suicide kabooms against Kukikhels in 2010 and 2011, killing more than a hundred rustics.

Khaistha Gul, another Kukikhel primitive, said they had lost their homes and agricultural land to Taliban. The Kukikhels were also forced to surrender their arms at the Nakai checkpost near Nari Bara established by Lashkar-e-Islam.

He thanked the Al Khidmat Foundation which, he said, had set up a relief camp at Ali Masjid where displaced families were getting food and water. It was also providing transport to those who wanted to move to other places.

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India-Pakistan

Eight gunned down in Karachi

2011-04-15

[Dawn] At least eight people, five political activists among them, were bumped off in different areas of Bloody Karachi on Wednesday as murders remerged in full fury, prompting fresh fears among people that the scourge is beyond the control of political and security administrations in the province.

There was no word from key officials in the provincial set-up about government efforts to put an end to the bloodshed as corpse count swelled to 15 in three days of violence. However,
The emphatic However...
police officials claimed that efforts were being made to stop the menace from spreading to so far unaffected parts of the city.

In the deadliest incident on Wednesday, four men on two

cycle of violences attacked a group of four people in Sector 10 of Orangi Town, killing three of them on the spot and leaving one severely injured.

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) claimed that the victims were its activists.

"The gunnies fired on them when they were sitting at the corner of a street popularly known as Mohajir Chowk," said SP Khurram Waris of Orangi Town.

"They decamped after the firing, leaving 24-year-old Waqas Tariq, 44-year-old Zaheer Hanif and 38-year-old Habib Rafiq dead.

Another man, Muhammad Irfan, sustained a bullet wound in the abdomen and survived."

The incident sparked panic in the locality and traders closed of their shops. Transport disappeared from the streets in densely populated neighborhood.

A large number of MQM activists and leaders of the party went to the hospital to offer condolences to the family and fellow workers.

The MQM, which is a coalition partner of the PPP-led provincial government, demanded immediate arrest of the killers and swift measures from the federal and provincial authorities to curb the new cycle of violence.

"Armed hard boyz have been given a free hand to target MQM workers and over the past 24 hours some seven party activists have been killed," an MQM statement said.

The Orangi incident triggered violence in New Bloody Karachi where a bus driver was rubbed out near Saba Cinema.

"The driver has been identified as 53-year-old Barkatullah. He was a resident of Malir and originally hailed from Khyber Pakhtunkhawa," said an official at the New Bloody Karachi Industrial Area cop shoppe.

A few minutes later, more than half a dozen gunnies on four motorbikes attacked a restaurant on the University Road near Old Sabzi Mandi, killing a 45-year-old man who was there with friends.

The victim was identified as Chaudhry Saqib Nadim. But some people attacked the assailants and killed one of them and injured another, said an official of the New Town cop shoppe. The injured suspect was later handed over to police.

Earlier in the day, tit-for-tat killings claimed the lives of an Awami National Party (ANP) activist and an elderly member of MQM in New Bloody Karachi area. The two incidents took place in Ayub Goth, a poor neighbourhood between Super Highway and New Bloody Karachi.

"In first incident, 26-year-old Hazrat Ali alias Hero was intercepted by two men on a motorbike near Street No 1 of Sindh Cooperative Housing Society in Ayub Goth area," DSP Iftikhar Lodhi, the area's supervisory police officer (SPO), said.

Ten to 15 minutes later, gunnies on two cycle of violences attacked 60-year-old Shahbaz alias Shabbu. He had a poultry shop in the area and was said to be associated with MQM.

The fresh wave of violence coincided with the presence of Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Näwaz Shärif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
in the city.

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India-Pakistan

Gunmen open fire at Nato containers near Mastung

2009-11-21

[Dawn] Two people were injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire at two Nato containers near Mastung city.

According to police, the containers were carrying goods for Nato forces and were on their way to Afghanistan when unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at the containers in Chhoto area.
Muhammad Irfan who sustained serious injuries was rushed to Quetta while Manzoor Ahmed was shifted to Mastung Headquarters Hospital.

Law enforcement agencies have cordoned off the area and started search operation.

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India-Pakistan

Chief of Taliban beheading squad captured

2009-09-18

Sher Mohammad Qasab, one of 15 Taliban 'commanders' carrying a head money of Rs10 million, was captured in Swat on Wednesday, along with 16 other militants.

Thirty-seven terrorists laid down their arms in different areas of the valley. Qasab's is the third high-profile arrest announced in five days.

According to the Swat media centre, security forces arrested 17 militants, including Mohammad Qasab and his son Adalat Khan, during a search operation in Gat Kandao area of Charbagh.

Qasab, who was injured in the operation, was presented before local people in Charbagh Bazaar. His other three sons, Zahid, Shah Wazir and Perwanat, had been killed in a clash with security forces a couple of days ago.

Qasab was wanted in various cases of terrorism, including attacks on government installations and beheading of security and police personnel.

(According to AFP, military officials confirmed Qasab's arrest. 'He was injured during an exchange of fire with security forces. In the same exchange of fire, three of his sons were killed,' Col Akhtar Abbas, the military spokesman in Swat, said.

'Troops encircled him for days,' a military official in Peshawar said. Col Abbas accused Qasab of personally beheading members of security forces and setting fire to a dozen girls' schools in different parts of the valley. 'He was running a slaughter centre in Charbagh where he himself used to slaughter opponents and security personnel,' he added.)

According to the ISPR, 37 militants, including one Shamakhel and his two sons, laid down arms in Shah Dheri, Shah Dand Banda, Kanju and Bar Shor areas.

Eight tunnels were discovered and three bombs defused in Ashar, Banr and Mangaltan areas. A woman and her child were injured when a mortar shell hit their house.

Muhammad Irfan Mughal in Dera Ismail Khan adds: Eight militants were killed when security forces backed by helicopter gunships pounded their hideouts in Paharpur area near here on Wednesday.

Six militants were arrested and a large quantity of weapons and ammunition was seized. Officials said that several militant hideouts near Lakki Marwat had also been destroyed.

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India-Pakistan

Military convoy attacked in N Waziristan; soldier dies

2009-08-17

One soldier was killed and two others were injured when militants attacked a military convoy in Derga Mandi area in the restive North Waziristan tribal region on Saturday. According to sources, the convoy was on its way to Miramshah from the border town of Ghulam Khan. They said the assailants used machine guns and rockets in the attack.

Soon afterwards the security forces launched a counter-attack and targeted nearby houses. Residents said four people, including two children, received bullet injuries.

Muhammad Irfan Mughal adds from Tank
Supporters of Baitullah Mehsud and those of Turkistan Bhittani clashed in the Gomal Bazaar area on Saturday, leaving four people dead. According to local people, Baitullah's supporters attacked the office of pro-government militant commander Turkistan Bhittani, killing one man and wounding two others. The Bhittani group killed three attackers. The group also claimed seizing four wounded assailants. However, the claim could not be confirmed. Baitullah's supporters had attacked their rival's offices in the area a few days ago and kidnapped several people.

Meanwhile, four unidentified bodies were found in the Kariwam area of Frontier Region of Jandola on Saturday, local officials said.

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India-Pakistan

One dies, six hurt in Dera blast

2009-07-30

[The News (Pak) Top Stories] A security guard was killed and six others, including two lawyers, were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off in the parking lot of the district courts here on Wednesday.

Sources said the IED, planted by unknown terrorists, exploded as soon as the car of Syed Mastan Shah, a senior lawyer belonging to the Shia community, entered the parking lot. The IED was exploded with remote control.

The lawyer suffered multiple injuries while his security guard, Asad Abbas, was killed on the spot. Other wounded persons included Iqbal Hussain, the driver of Mastan Shah, Manzoor Ahmad, lawyer Rashid Irfan, Syed Manzoor Hussain and Muhammad Irfan. Driver Iqbal Hussain was said to be in critical condition. The blast was so powerful that it destroyed the car of the lawyer.

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India-Pakistan

21 injured in grenade attack in DI Khan

2009-06-12

An unidentified motorcyclist hurled a hand grenade on people in Topawala Bazaar on Thursday injuring 21 people, police said. The man attacked civilians near Jadeed cloth house around 11:55am, police said. The injured were identified as Ramzan, Younus, Shamsur Rehaman, Muhammad Nawaz, Qadir Islam, Shair, Inayat, Najamuddin, Iran, liaqat, Allah Wasaya, Ahmad Bakhsh, Yousuf, Muhammad Irfan, Fazal and a seven-year-old girl, Hunza.

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