Tag: Killed

KARACHI - The Anti-Violent Crime Cell (AVCC) rescued two kidnapped men from Khuda Ki Basti, North Karachi on Friday after an encounter with the alleged kidnappers. One of the kidnappers was killed in the operation while two of his accomplices managed to escape, said AVCC DSP Irfan. The two kidnapped students named Saad and Sheharyar were kidnapped on January 18 from the jurisdiction of New Town police.
Irfan said the AVCC police had conducted a raid in the Surjani Town area and

KARACHI - Four people were killed and five injured in different incidents in the city on Friday. A man was killed and another injured in firing in Malir within the limits of the Alfalah police station. Police said that two groups traded fire on the issue of putting up a banner of a school in Kehkashan Society. They opened fire in which Ahsan and a passerby Hassan suffered bullet injuries. Ahsan died on the spot and the injured was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. The

KOHAT - The security forces killed at least two most wanted terrorists in a clash at Kamal Khel, a suburb of Kohat, on Friday. The terrorists opened indiscriminate fire when the security forces were conducting a search operation in the locality. They were stated to be involved in various bombings in Kohat and attacks on the security forces.
In another incident, tribesmen captured eight persons allegedly linked with the extremists. Meanwhile, a traffic police Inspector Qaiser

KARACHI - Malik Munsaf Awan, the lawyer who volunteered to represent Muhammad Faheem's family in court in the case against US citizen Raymond Davis, is allegedly pressuring the family into 'becoming pawns' for rightwing elements, sources close to the family told Pakistan Today on Monday.
Awan, who refused to comment on the issue, is associated with the Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), and had come to Faheem's family to volunteer to represent them pro bono. Soon after, however, he started

Lahore - A man was allegedly killed by unidentified robbers for putting up resistance in the Shahdara Police Station precincts on Monday. The deceased was identified as Muhammad Anwar, 45, and a resident of the Wasim Town, Kot Abdul Malik. According to police, around three armed men entered Anwar's house and took his family members hostage at gunpoint and demanded them to hand over all valuables.
Anwar resisted with the robbers on which the criminals shot him and fled with Rs 1

DUBAI - Four passengers were killed when a Grumman 21T aircraft crashed at Al-Ain airport in the east of the United Arab Emirates, an aviation authority statement said on Monday.
The General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said the plane crashed shortly after takeoff on Sunday evening, adding that there were four deaths. "Shortly after liftoff, the aircraft veered to the left and crashed on Taxiway Kilo," it said.
It said that the eight-seater aircraft was destroyed by the

LAHORE - A brutal stepfather killed a four-year old child by feeding acid in Latifabad area of Hyderabad on Friday, a private TV channel reported. The victim of the barbaric incident, Mehtab, was first rushed to the Bhittai Hospital and later to the Civil Hospital where he expired.
According to the boy's mother, Shazia, her second husband Nasir Pathan first tortured her son severely and later fed him acid. The culprit managed to escape while a case has been registered with the

PESHAWAR - Four people were killed and another six injured when suspected militants struck at a NATO oil tankers terminal on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday.
Around 25 armed men attacked Jamil terminal in Garhi Qamar Din and torched 16 of the 40 tankers parked there. Peshawar Capital Chief Police Officer Liaqat Ali told Pakistan Today that the attacks took place in the wee hours of the morning and investigations were underway.
Meanwhile, senior police official Imtiaz

BAGHDAD - One of Al Qaeda leaders in Iraq, identified as the militant group's "war minister", has been killed in a raid, a senior Iraqi official said on Friday. Noman Salman, also know as Al-Nasser Lideen Allah Abu Suleiman, the war minister for the Islamic State of Iraq (ISI), was killed on Thursday night in Hit, about 130 km west of Baghdad, a spokesman for the Baghdad operations command said.
"Based on intelligence, Iraqi security forces carried out the raid that killed him.

QUETTA - A man was killed and ten others wounded in separate incidents of firing and rocket attack in different areas of Balochistan on Thursday while an Iran-bound goods train derailed after a railway track had been blown up in District Chaghi. Officials said armed men opened fire on a trailer carrying NATO supplies near Wadh area of Khuzdar some 360 KM away from Quetta on RCD Highway.
As a result an occupant identified as Usman Ali resident of Sheikhupura died on the spot while

ABIDJAN - Up to 15 members of the security forces were killed in the latest gun battles between supporters of the rival claimants to the presidency of Ivory Coast, an Ivorian army source told Reuters on Wednesday. The source, a military commander, said paramilitary police loyal to the incumbent leader, Laurent Gbagbo, were ambushed on Tuesday evening by supporters of his rival Alassane Ouattara.
"We're talking about 10 to 15 deaths, essentially gendarmes (paramilitary police) who

GWADAR - At least two security personnel embraced martyrdom and five received injuries when remote-controlled bomb planted on a bicycle exploded in Jannat Bazaar area of Gwadar on Tuesday. The FC convoy was targeted on the Gwadar Seaport Road.
Soon after the incident, the police cordoned off the area and started a search operation. The eyewitnesses reported that some unknown miscreants resorted to indiscriminate firing after the explosion.

BAGHDAD - Iraq scrambled to head off further protests on Monday by cutting politicians' pay and ramping up support for the needy after a teenage demonstrator was killed at a rally in the country's north. Protests in recent weeks have taken place nationwide, in Iraq's Sunni, Shiite and Kurd areas, railing against corruption, high levels of unemployment and poor provision of basic services such as clean water and electricity.
On Monday, the Iraqi government said it would postpone

LAHORE - Punjab Governor Latif Khosa's daughter-in-law died while her sister was injured when their car overturned near the Sheikhupura Interchange on the Motorway on Monday. The deceased was identified as Hina Saeed while her injured sister was identified as Sana Saeed, both residents of the PCSIR Housing Society.
According to National Highways & Motorways Police (NH&MP) officials, Hina was coming to Lahore from Islamabad along with her sister Sana, who was driving a car bearing

KARACHI - A PPP office-bearer was killed and a woman injured when two unidentified men opened fire at their car near Khuda Ki Basti in Surjani Town on Saturday. Surjani police said that the incident took place in Sector 36 of Khuda Ki Basti near the Lyari Expressway.
Forty-eight-year-old Naimatullah alias Mohan Bengali was in his car bearing registration No APX-015 along with a woman identified as 25-year-old Laiba when two unidentified men on a motorcycle opened fire at their

PESHAWAR - A suicide bomber was killed as a car bomb exploded near a police station in Bannu city, police said on Friday. The bomber tried to hit the building of police station with his explosive-laden car, but the material exploded before he could reach the target.
Four persons were also injured in the blast. It is pertinent to recall that 20 people were killed in Bannu district last month when a bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a police station building.

PESHAWAR - Amidst tall claims on the part of authorities regarding a military action against militants, terror acts are being still reported from across Mohmand Agency, which borders Afghanistan.
According the official account, one security personnel was killed and four others injured on the night between Thursday and Friday when dozens of extremists encircled a check post at Ghanamshah and opened indiscriminate fire. However, the attack was repulsed after the security forces