Tag: Killed

QUETTA - Ten personnel of the Frontier Works Organization were killed and two others injured in an armed attack in the coastal district of Gwadar close to the Iranian border on Monday. "Ten deaths have been confirmed in a terrorist attack in Palari area of Gwadar district", provincial home and tribal secretary Balochistan told Pakistan Today.
A large group of labourers, along with other staff members of the Frontier Works Organization, a sister organization of Pakistan Army and

KARACHI - An ANP general secretary and a MQM activist were among five killed in separate incidents of violence across the city on Monday. ANP Sindh District West General Secretary Hanif Khan was attacked in the Metroville area. Sixty one-year-old Khan was shot in the street while he was on his way to a mosque. MQM activist Sajid Butt was gunned down in Zia Colony near the Lyari Expressway in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. In another incident, one Misar Gul was stabbed at Khayaban-e-Tanzeem in the

Continued from page 1 - Involved in construction of the coastal highway, were resting close to the road in the evening when eight attackers riding motorcycles opened indiscriminate fire on the group, killing four instantly and injuring 8 others, of which six could not survive the bullet wounds.
The attackers were able to flee easily because no security arrangements had been made for the labourers.

KARACHI - An Awami National Party (ANP) general secretary and a Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) activist among five were killed and four others injured in separate incidents across the city on Monday. ANP-Sindh District West General Secretary Hanif Khan was attacked in the Metroville area. Sixty one-year-old Khan was shot in the street while he was on his way to a mosque. He was critically injured and rushed to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where he succumbed to his

MINGAWARA - The security forces killed at least five militants when they were attempting to escape in the mountainous area of Durushkhela in Matta, Swat, on the night between Sunday and Monday. According to the officials, the security forces raided the locality to recover arms and ammunition, as revealed by the already arrested militants, who had dumped the consignment in early 2009.
However, the militants positioned at the site tried to flee but the security forces shot dead

LAHORE - A 14-year-old girl was shot dead on Monday when her parents rejected a marriage proposal in the Shahdara Police Station precincts. The deceased was identified as Kubra Bibi, daughter of Shafat Ali, a resident of Kaiser Town. According to police officials, a family visited Kubra's house a few days ago with a marriage proposal but her parents turned it down. The boy and his family felt insulted on being rejected.
On Monday, the boy's family members reached Kubra's house

JOS - Two men were killed in the central Nigerian city of Jos on Sunday when explosives they were carrying on a motorbike went off, preventing what local residents said was an attempted attack on a Christian community.
More than 200 people have been killed in sectarian violence since late last year in and around Jos, which lies in Nigeria's "Middle Belt" between the mostly-Muslim north and predominantly Christian south.
Christian youths angered by what they took to be an

TRIPOLI/SANAA - Muammar Gaddafi's government said it was declaring a unilateral ceasefire in its offensive to crush Libya's revolt on Friday, while Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh announced a state of emergency after medics said 46 people were killed when pro-regime loyalists and police opened fire on protesters in Sanaa.
Libyan government troops pounded the rebel-held western city of Misrata, killing at least 25 people including children and injuring at least 200, a doctor

QUETTA - At least six people, including four security force personnel, were killed and 23 others injured in various bomb blasts and firing incidents in Quetta, Naseerabad, Turbat, Sibi and Jaffarabad on Thursday. Outlawed BRA claimed responsibility for all the attacks.
According to police, an FC convoy was passing from Sariab Road when a car parked at Badini Cross exploded, killing one and injuring five others. In a similar incident, three people, including two FC personnel were

PESHAWAR - Three suspected militants were killed on Wednesday when US-led allied forces in Afghanistan fired missiles from unmanned drones at a vehicle in the border region of North Waziristan on Wednesday.
Two missiles hit the vehicle near the village of Anbur Shaga in the Datakhel area, destroying it completely and killing all three suspected militants on board. The identity of the militants could not be ascertained but tribesmen believe they were foreign militants.
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MARDAN - As many as four militants and two police officers were killed and 10 policemen and civilians injured in a shootout on Fatima Road at Shahdhand Tuesday morning. Reportedly, on a tip off about the presence of some militants at Shahdhand graveyard, a party, headed by Hoti SHO Mian Mazhar Shah Khan, reached the spot and blocked the road.
As the police party saw four suspects, they ordered them to stop for checking. Instead of stopping, all the four militants resorted to

KARACHI - Seven more people, including activists of Awami National Party (ANP) and People's Amn Committee (PAC), were shot dead by unidentified men in fresh targeted killings across the city on Monday. Many areas of the city remained tense due to the ongoing violence including the Saddar, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, Pehlwan Goth, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Abul Hassan Ispahani Road, Banaras, Qasba Colony, Kati Pahari, Urdu Nagar, New Karachi and Lyari. An ANP worker was killed and two others suffered

QUETTA - Agha Mahmood Khan Ahmadzai, the first cousin of Khan of Kalat and nephew of a provincial minister, was gunned down by unknown assailants in Kalat town, some 160km away from Quetta, on Monday. According to the family sources, armed men riding a motorbike sprayed a volley of bullets on the vehicle of Agha on Shahi Darbar Road, as he was coming out of his uncle's house. As a result, he received four bullets and succumbed to his injuries on the spot. Following the attack,

PESHAWAR - At least eight people were killed and nine injured when unidentified militants opened fire at a passenger van near Dawaba in Southern Hangu district on Sunday. The police claimed to have killed three militants in a brief encounter that followed the initial assault.
Kohat Commissioner Khalid Khan Omarzai told Pakistan Today that the police had arrested four suspected militants from a hospital in Dawaba early on Sunday and the assault on the van seemed to be in

LAHORE - Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Muhammad Aslam Tareen issued special instructions to the CCPO office on Sunday to solve problems faced by the heirs of police officials who died in the line of duty. Tareen said that a number of facilities had been extended to the heirs such as financial assistance provision, group insurance, grant, monthly pay, educational expenditures of children, marriage grant and induction of the deceased's children or brother in police. The CCPO

SANAA - Police killed a boy and wounded hundreds of people in pre-dawn clashes in the Yemeni capital on Saturday and a 12-year-old youth died during anti-government demonstrations in the southern city of Mukalla, witnesses said.
A man watching protests from his office window in Sanaa was also shot dead by a stray bullet, a security source said. Thousands of protesters have been demanding the end of President Ali Abdullah Saleh's 32-year rule and at least 30 people have lost

JUBA - Militia fighters attacked the capital of Sudan's oil-producing Upper Nile state on Saturday, the southern army said, leaving 23 dead. The attack on Malakal, one of the south's three main settlements, marked an escalation in clashes between the south's army and militias which has aroused fears over the stability of the region in the countdown to its secession, due on July 9.
"Militia have penetrated the town. They raided at night," said southern army spokesman Philip Aguer