Jet strike kills 20 Taliban in Orakzai
Warplanes pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal region of Orakzai before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 20 Taliban insurgents, security officials said.
Warplanes pounded militant hideouts in the northwestern tribal region of Orakzai before dawn on Wednesday, killing at least 20 Taliban insurgents, security officials said.
Eighteen militants including six foreigners were killed in fierce fighting in the Jogi area near Mamozai, located between the Orakzai and Kurram tribal regions on Wednesday, Geo News reported.
A suspected militant on Monday recorded his statement before a judicial magistrate confessing that he had planned and executed a suicide attack on the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine in Oct 2010 and was also involved in last year`s botched terrorist act in the Seaview area.
The police here Sunday claimed to have arrested several suspected persons after Saturday’s clash in which one cop and a terrorist were killed.
The Wah Saddar police on Tuesday claimed to have arrested two would-be suicide bombers and recovered two suicide jackets along with arms and ammunition from their possession.
Law enforcement agencies, in a joint venture, arrested two suspects involved in terrorist activities on Tuesday and recovered hand grenades and sophisticated guns with ammunition from their custody, a police spokesman said. The suspects identified as Usman Liaqat and Saqib Ali Shah have been shifted to unknown place for further investigation after the police obtained their seven-day physical remand, the spokesman said.
Two witnesses on Tuesday picked out a suspect during an identification parade held before a judicial magistrate in the Seaview bomb blast case.
Four suspected militants were arrested in separate raids in Matta tehsil of Swat district on Monday, sources said. Acting on a tip-off, the police raided a house in Sambat village and arrested three militants identified as Umar Ali, Muhammad Luqman and Javed.
The Khanpur city police registered the FIR of the blast which claimed over 19 lives six days ago, against dozens of activists of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi on Friday.
The police claimed to have arrested another militant in a raid conducted on a house in the outskirts of Nowshera city on Friday.
The Crimes Investigations Agency police on Thursday said that they arrested as many as 14 terrorists involved in attack on Sri Lankan Cricket Team besides other terrorism incidents during the year 2011.
A huge cache of arms bound for Karachi was recovered from a truck coming from Darra Adamkhel on Indus Highway on Thursday.
At least three militants were killed when they clashed with volunteers of a peace committee in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency on Wednesday.
Two militants were killed in a clash with the volunteers of the Akakhel Amn Lashkar in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency late Tuesday night, local sources said.
A suspected militant was arrested in Kabal Tehsil in Swat district on Tuesday, sources said. The sources said that acting on a tip off, the police raided a house in Bara Bandai in Kabal Tehsil and arrested an alleged militant Adam Khan.
Mukarram Khan Atif, a senior tribal journalist and correspondent for the Voice of America and a private TV news channel, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen in a local mosque in the Shabqadar Tehsil of Charsadda district on Tuesday, police sources said.
The administrative judge of the ATC accepted charge-sheets against Taliban suspects facing charges of possessing explosive substances and illegal weapons and carrying out bomb blasts and being involved in police encounter and sent their cases to ATC-I for trial.
The administrative judge of anti-terrorism courts on Monday remanded a suspect alleged to have been involved in bombings at the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi and in the Sea View area in police custody.
The administrative judge of the antiterrorism courts of Karachi on Monday remanded a suspected militant in police custody in a number of cases, including bomb blasts at the Abdullah Shah Ghazi shrine and Seaview.
The Crime Investigation Department on Saturday claimed to have arrested three alleged operatives of Al-Qaeda and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan including a suicide bomber in separate raids and recovered huge cache of weapons from their possessions.
The Anti-Extremist Cell (AEC) and Crime Investigation Department (CID) seem to have hit the jackpot on Saturday with the arrest of three men, affiliated with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan.
Personnel of the Crime Investigation Department (CID), Sindh, claimed to have arrested two activists of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), including a would-be suicide bomber, in Shah Latif Town on Saturday.
Four militants, involved in attack on Riaz Shaheed police post in Surband on Thursday night, were arrested during a search operation in the area, sources said. Three security personnel were killed in the attack on police post. Several new pickets were set up in the area to counter any fresh assault from Bara side of Khyber Agency, sources added.
An anti-terrorism court indicted on Saturday a suspected militant in a case pertaining to a 2004 attack on the convoy of the then Karachi corps commander.
The suspected Balochistan chief of the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan was killed and an aide of his was arrested during a shoot-out with police that also left two intelligence officials wounded in the Gulshan-i-Jamal area on Saturday, CID police claimed.