Tag: Forces

PESHAWAR - Security forces killed 15 to 20 militants in Mohmand Agency, an official claimed on Sunday. The official said the militants were killed after security forces repulsed their attack on a checkpost in Ziarat, adding that more than 25 were also injured in the gunbattle that ensued.
The official said around 100 armed militants attacked the checkpost around midnight. "Our forces were on high alert, therefore, they succeeded in repulsing the attack," Assistant Political Agent

PESHAWAR - Without ensuring the supremacy of constitution and parliament, no one can handle the challenges of terrorism and militancy that have put Pakistan's sovereignty and solidarity at risk.
It was said by the speakers and participants at a seminar on "From Militarisation to Civilisation" arranged by the Individual Land in Peshawar on Saturday, where a speaker, Shamim Shahid, said a number of internal and external reasons were behind the militarisation as, internally, the

SINGAPORE - Two Afghans hired by a Singapore-based engineering firm were killed last week by "friendly fire" from NATO-led security forces in Afghanistan's Helmand province, the company said on Monday. A third Afghan employee of the Central Asia Development Group (CADG) was seriously injured in the incident on February 3, CADG spokesman Matthew Goldthwaite said in an email to AFP.
"On February 3, 2011, a CADG vehicle, carrying four of CADG's Afghan national staff were caught in

LAHORE - The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday disposed of a petition challenging establishment and functioning of various task forces. Justice Iftikhar Hussain Chaudhry was hearing the petition filed by Maqsood Abbas, a resident of Green Town. He submitted that the Punjab government after establishing task forces, appointed chairmen, chief coordinators and coordinators in every government department.
Maqsood pointed out that huge expenditures are being incurred on these task

PESHAWAR - Scores of militants attacked a security checkpost in Mohmand Agency early on Wednesday, killing at least three security personnel. In retaliation, the forces reportedly gunned down 15 assailants while injuring eight others. The officials said a group of more than 70 militants attacked a Frontier Corps checkpost at Anargee in Baizai Tehsil of Mohmand Agency during the wee hours of Wednesday.
Three troops were killed and four others injured in the sever assault.

PESHAWAR - The security forces on Wednesday said its one soldier was killed and 3 others sustained wounds when the Afghan National Army fired some 10 mortars on a security check post at Ghulam Khan over the Pak-Afghan border some 25 kms from Miranshah in North Waziristan.
No confirmation of the report could be received from Inter-Services Public Relations till the filing of this news report. Afghan authorities were holding Pakistani forces responsible for what they said an

SWAT - Security forces shot dead six miscreants Sawat's tehsil Matta on Monday. Security forces intercepted six miscreants, in Serwan an area of Tehsil Matta (Swat), who were trying to enter the town. Encircling the men, security personal tried to arrest them but they fired at the security personal and were killed in retaliation. The dead men were wanted by the police in several criminal cases.

MOHMAND AGENCY - The security forces cleaned up more areas from militants in their operation in the Mohmand Agency and arrested ten suspected men on Sunday, while a large number of people migrated from the areas due to escalation in military operation.
The security forces' ongoing operation in Mohmand Agency became intensified and gunship helicopters, jet planes, tanks and heavy artillery were being used in it. The security forces making continuous advance in various parts of the

QUETTA - National Party Senior Vice President Senator Mir Hasil Khan Bezinjo has strongly criticised the government, saying that they had sought an apology first and then unleashed atrocities against the Balochs, setting new records comparable to their predecessors.
He said that Balochs could not present flowers to the rulers after receiving decomposed bodies of their youth. He was addressing a public gathering in Dera Allayar of Jaffarabad district on Sunday. "The incumbent

KARACHI - The United Bank Limited (UBL) in collaboration with an international advisory firm on Thursday launched a poor-centric branchless banking model in the country that State Bank Governor Shahid Kardar believes is the future of banking industry in a technologically developing Pakistan.
The joint venture called UBL Omni is conceived as an effort to ramp up the electronic services platform in the country's impoverished and localities neglected by banks and has been financed

NEW DELHI - Indian Home Secretary GK Pillai said on Friday the country was planning to reduce its security forces by 25 percent in Indian-held Kashmir (IHK) in order to ease conditions for the local people in one of the world's most militarised areas, but India's Army chief ruled out any reduction in forces in IHK, AFP reported.
Speaking at a university seminar on IHK in the Indian capital, Pillai said the government was looking at cutting troops by "25 percent in 12 months from

KOHAT - After getting secret information, security forces opened fire on an alleged suicide bomber killing him instantly near Kohat Development Authority on Friday.
According to the media reports, it was expected that the alleged suicide bomber, wearing suicide jacket, was to attack on tribal leader's vehicle passing by Kohat Development Authority whom security forces killed.
The reports added that police besieged the area and recovered a grenade from the possession of the

GAZA - Palestinians gave anonymous burials on Tuesday to two men killed by Israeli forces on the Gaza border and whose unclaimed bodies stirred speculation they might have been foreign migrant workers or al Qaeda supporters.
The two were shot on Jan. 5 while trying to clamber into Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, the army said. Palestinian medics who collected their corpses said the men wore civilian clothes and carried no weapons. Their skin was darker than most Gazans'.

KARACHI - The Sindh government has established a new cell to take over the responsibilities of the public-private partnership unit being run by the Finance Department after failing to ensure that development schemes are properly implemented
The main objective of establishing the new cell is to achieve the goals, which the government had set, sources told Pakistan Today.
A few months ago, Sindh Chief Minister Qaim Ali Shah had directed the additional chief secretary

PESHAWAR - At least six militants were killed and three injured in a clash with the security forces in Lower Kurram Agency on Thursday.
The officials said a group of militants attacked the security forces check-post at Saif Ul Dara area and that the security forces retaliated and gunned down six militants. Three militants were
injured in the clashes.
The local tribesmen said that notorious militant commander Gul Sharif, his son and a nephew were also among the dead.

PESHAWAR - Two militants were shot down in Samar Bag area of Lower Dir, security officials claimed on Sunday. Earlier, the militants attacked a police van with an Improvised Explosive Device, injuring three police officers including the station house officer, officials said.
Security forces then retaliated, killing two of the attackers and capturing an undisclosed number. The Lower Dir district is native to Sufi Mohammad, chief of the banned Tehrik Nifaz Shariah Mohammadi.