Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2013

Police foiled a terrorism bid in the Sarband area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP by defusing a 70-kilogramme bomb. The bomb was planted in a drum outside a tribal elder’s house in the semi-tribal village of Keena Bala. The Bomb Disposal Squad neutralised the bomb. Read less...

Seven persons, including six women, working for a non-governmental organisation (NGO), were shot dead at Sher Afzal Kalley area in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on January 1, reports Daily Times. An employee for Support with Working Solutions (SWWS) organisation, working on health and education, told Daily Times that the van was on its way from a centre of the NGO when the gunmen ambushed it at Sher Afzal Kalley. The driver of the vehicle carrying the local NGO staff was wounded critically, District Police Officer Abdur Rashid said. “The gunmen were waiting for the NGO staff by the roadside and ambushed their van when it reached there,” said the Police Officer who, however, did not say what the motive of the killing was. Five of the women were teachers, the sixth was a health worker and the man worked as a health technician, officials said. “Four men came on two motorbikes. They attacked their van, a Toyota HiAce. They opened fire to the right and left of the van and fled,” said Abdul Rashid Khan, Swabi Police Chief. Read less...

Sub-Divisional Education Officer Rehmatullah Khan asked the heads of primary schools to ensure presence of watchmen in their respective schools during night time. The instructions to this effect have been delivered to headmasters in Meenakhel, Tajazai, Serai Gambila, Tattarkhel, Gandi Khankhel and Kala Manjiwala circles. Read less...

Unidentified assailants attacked a house with a hand grenade in Abakhel village. “The hand grenade exploded in a compound of the house of one Shad Nabi,” an official said, adding that the blast did not cause any human or property loss. Read less...

Unidentified militants exploded two home-made explosive devices at boys’ primary school at Dallokhel village in Lakki Marwat, damaging a portion of its boundary wall, reports Dawn. An official said that the bombs weighed 2.5 kilogrammes each and the watchman who was present in the school building remained unhurt. Read less...

A single-member Peshawar High Court bench directed the Provincial Government to raise money from philanthropists for safe release of eight Water and Power Development Authority workers abducted over four months back. The WAPDA workers were abducted by militants on August 15 when they were on the way to Tank District from the dam site in South Waziristan Agency of FATA. The abductors have demanded PKR 150 million ransom. At the same time, the court asked the families of the abductees not to protest, observing that the act may threaten the life of their members. While issuing these directions, Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan gave another week to the Government for the safe recovery of the WAPDA workers associated with Gomal Zam dam project, and adjourned hearing to January 10. Read less...

Dera Ismail Khan Police busted the network involved in two bomb attacks on Ashura processions and arrested four top members of the group, The News reported quoting a Senior Police Official said. Deputy Inspector General (DIG) of Police, Dera Ismail Khan, Qazi Jamilur Rahman told reporters that four persons associated with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were arrested and suicide jackets, detonators and explosives and ammunition recovered from their hideouts. Nine people were killed and 26 others wounded in a blast in Thoya Fazil on the ninth of Muharram. The next day another bomb went off in Commissionary Bazaar killing seven people and injuring over 138 others. Read less...

Five students received minor injuries slightly when an explosive device went off at University of Peshawar (UoP) in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 2, reports Dawn. About one kilogram of explosives were used in the blast occurred in the conference hall of Institute of Islamic and Arabic Studies, UoP, Campus Police Station House Officer (SHO) Saidullah Afirdi said. The blast created panic at UoP as students staged a protest demonstration after the incident, alleging that the campus had become unsafe. The protesting students also demanded suspension of officials at Campus Police Station for their failure to protect students. However, UoP spokesperson claimed that nobody was injured in the blast as the conference hall was empty at the time of explosion. He said that the blast caused damage to the furniture, doors and windows of the hall and a nearby computer laboratory. Read less...

A Government school was blown up in Mashokhel village in the night of January 3. Police officials in the area said the militants bombed the school by placing explosives at the building of the Government High School Mashokhel located the jurisdiction of the Badaber Police Station. The explosion was triggered with a remote-controlled device that destroyed three rooms and caused cracks in other parts of the building. Read less...

The bullet-riddled body of a local mosque’s prayer leader was found in the Shahmansoor Mountains of Swabi District on January 3, reports Dawn. The prayer leader, Naseebullah alias Zarbat Khan, belonged to Orakzai Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and he went missing after he offered Asr prayer in his mosque on January 3. Read less...

A man, suspected of involvement in the January 1 murder of seven aid workers in Swabi (Swabi District), was killed in an exchange of gunfire with Police, reports Dawn. The suspect, who was holed up in a house in the Gar area of Swabi District, was among the gunmen who killed the seven workers, Swabi District Police Officer Abdur Rashid Khan was quoted as saying. His companion, a suspected accomplice, escaped, officials said. Khan said that a motorcycle and a pistol that was used in the killing had been recovered from the suspected terrorists. Read less...

Explosives planted at the building of a private school in Hassan Garhi went off. However, no casualty was reported in the blast that slightly damaged the boundary wall of the school. Read less...

Four explosions destroyed the under-construction District Jail in Rehmanabad area of Hangu (Hangu District). Talking to reporters, District Police Officer (DPO) Mian Saeed Ahmed said that militants had placed explosives inside the under-construction jail building in Rehmanabad and triggered the explosions around midnight. The bomb disposal unit (BDU) officials said that 35 kilograms of explosives had been used in the four blasts. “Two barracks and a room of the jail were razed to the ground due to the powerful explosion,” he said. However, independent sources said that two barracks and five rooms were destroyed in the four blasts. ‘Spokesman’ for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Darra Adamkhel chapter, Muhammad, claimed responsibility for blowing up the under-construction prison. Read less...

Police arrested two brothers in Baffa area of Mansehra District over allegedly threatening a lady health worker of dire consequences for administering anti-polio drops to children in their village, reports Dawn. The FIR was lodged on the written complaint of lady health worker Shabnam Bibi. In her application addressed to the district health officer, she stated that Shamsur Rehman and his brother Saifur Rehman threatened her of dire consequences during the anti-polio drive in December 2012. Read less...

The militants stormed a security post in Mera Matani area of Peshawar in the evening, reports The News. The alert Police commandos and Frontier Constabulary personnel resisted the attack. The exchange of fire continued for some time before the attackers escaped. No casualty was reported in the attack. Read less...

The Security Forces (SFs) arrested a militant ‘commander’ of Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) during a search operation in Jalozai camp. The sources said that the SFs sealed the phase-I in “S” sector at the camp and launched a search operation at 11am. During the operation, Abdul Haq was arrested and taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation. Read less...

Three persons sustained injuries in a blast in the limits of Miryan Police Station, reports The News. The sources said a blast outside the hujra (guesthouse) of one Qalandar Khan injured him and also Sher Dawar and Izzat Khan. The Sources said that it could not be ascertained whether it was a hand-grenade attack or explosives were planted outside the hujra. Read less...

Two persons were killed and another was injured in a bomb explosion in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 4, reports The Express Tribune. A local cricketer Ijaz Khan along with his friend Aman was returning from the playground after a match when they were hit by the powerful bomb. Police said that a bomb had been planted along an electricity pylon in Gul Khan Forest area of Badhaber. The explosion also damaged the electricity pylon suspending electricity supply to the area. A rocket had landed in the same Gul Khan area earlier in the day, but did not cause any damage. Read less...

Unidentified militants blew up a house in the Kaingar village of Bannu District. No loss to human life took place. However, the house was badly damaged by the powerful explosion. Read less...

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said on January 5 that the strength of militants has increased so alarmingly that now, they can reach anywhere they want to carry out their activities, reports Dawn. “The time has come to take the final decision on whether to hold dialogue with militants or to begin a meaningful operation against them,” the Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain told the provincial assembly on a point of order about the recent acts of militancy, especially the killing of seven aid workers, including six women, in Swabi. Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said a lot had been spoken in condemnation of militant attacks and therefore, it was direly needed to take militancy to its logical end. He said there were two options with the Government either to hold dialogue with militants and if it was not possible, then the second option was intensive operation against them. All political parties and security agencies should get together to make an effective strategy before the Government held dialogue with militants or went for operation against them, adds Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain. Read less...

An explosive device went off near the hujra (guest house) of an official of a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Arakh area of Razar tehsil (revenue unit) in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 6, reports The News. The sources said that unidentified persons had planted two bombs near the main gate of the hujra of Fazal Muhammad in Arakh area and triggered the explosion. The blast damaged the main gate and boundary walls of the structure but didn’t cause any casualty. The sources added the personnel of the bomb disposal unit (BDU) recovered a second bomb and defused it. Read less...

Six rockets were fired at Bannu cantonment (Bannu District) on January 6-night from an unspecified direction. However, no loss of life or property was reported, reports Daily Times. The local Police officials said that five of the rockets fell in an open area, while one hit a residential colony of the Irrigation Department. Read less...

Militants made a serious threat to the Government against re-starting anti-polio campaign by planting a bomb weighing three kilograms in a health centre in the Rashidabad area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 7, reports The News. The bomb was, however, detected and defused. They also found a piece of paper with a message for the Government and senior health department authorities. “The letter carried a message, apparently from the militants, for the government authorities.” Read less...

Three militants and a Police Officer were killed and a Constable was injured in separate incidents of firing in Lakki Marwat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 7, reports Dawn. According to official sources, a Police team headed by District Police Officer (DPO) Mohammad Idrees Khan surrounded a house in Abakhel village after a tip that militants were hiding there. Militants opened fire when Police entered the house, killing the Station House Officer (SHO) Mohammad Ismail and injuring a Constable of the elite force, Zahid Ali. Two militants died when Police retaliated. Read less...

Two suspected militants on a motorbike attacked a patrol party of Ghaznikhel Police when they signalled them to stop near Balkhi Koroona area. Police opened fire, killing one of the attackers. The other suspect was arrested and seven grenades, four Kalashnikovs and live rounds were recovered from his possession. Read less...

Three Policemen were injured when unidentified assailants lobbed a hand grenade at them in the Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 8, Police said, according to Daily Times. The Policemen were on routine patrolling in the Swabi bazaar (market) when the attack happened. Read less...

At least seven militants were killed when Security Forces (SF) pounded the hills of Darra Admakhel town of Kohat District with artillery shelling on the night between January 9 and 10, reports Dawn. Read less...

Three security men - a khasadar, Khan Akbar, and two personnel of Mehsud Scouts — Naib Subedar Ashraf and Sepoy Asad — were injured when unidentified militants ambush a convoy of Security Forces (SFs) in Muslim Dhand area of Bara. The convoy was on its way to Levies centre in Shahkas when it was attacked. Read less...

Two cellular phone shops were blown up by unidentified militants at a market on Dera Road in Bannu town (Bannu District), reports Dawn. Sources said that unidentified persons planted improvised explosive devices near the shops of Zubair and Karimullah in a market at Taji Kallay Bus Stand that went off one after another at 1am, destroying both the shops. Read less...

Unidentified assailants on January 9 shot dead a Shia doctor associated with the ruling Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) in the Dabgari area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Daily Times. Riaz Hussain was president of the PPP branch in Kurram Agency (FATA). He was killed as he left his clinic in the Dabgari area and police suggested it was a targeted, sectarian killing. Read less...

At least 30 members of the Tableeghi Jamaat were killed and more than 70 were injured in a suicide blast inside the Tableeghi Markaz located on the Takhta Band Road in Mingora city, the headquarters of Swat District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on January 10, reports Post Jagaran. Some Police Officials initially claimed that the blast was caused by a gas cylinder but Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Malakand Akhtar Hayat later confirmed that it was a terrorist act. Read less...

Earlier in the day, a powerful bomb went off under a Security Forces (SF) vehicle at the busy Bacha Khan Chowk. Twelve persons were killed and over 40 others injured. Read less...

Police on January 11 arrested 40 people in connection with the January 10 bomb blast at a Tablighi Jamaat centre in Takhtaband area of Mingora area of Swat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Dawn. Suprintednet of Police (SP, Investigation) Irshad told Dawn that five kilogrammes explosive device was used in the blast. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. As reported earlier, 30 people were killed in the blast. Read less...

Unidentified assailants shot dead in-charge nurse of the District Headquarter Hospital (DHQ) at a bus stop in Hakeemabad area of Nowshera in same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 12, reports Dawn. Officials said the nurse Farzana Kawsar, wife of Sajjawal Khan of Hakeemabad, was waiting for office vehicle at the bus stop when unidentified assailants opened fire on her. Read less...

Three security personnel were injured when their vehicle came under a bomb attack in Shabqadar area of Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 13, reports Dawn. The vehicle was passing the Qala Shah Baig area when a remote-controlled bomb planted on the road hit it. Three security personnel and a passer-by were injured. The security personnel were identified as Asif, Asim and Ashar Mahmood. Read less...

The building of Government Middle School was partially damaged when an Explosive Device planted by unidentified militants went off in Shahdand area of Loundkhor in Mardan District on January 16, but no causalities were reported. Read less...

The house of an official of the Intelligence Bureau (IB) was partially damaged in an explosion in Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 16, reports The News. The sources said that the explosive device was planted near the main entrance of the house. Read less...

Unidentified armed assailants shot dead an Afghan prayer leader, identified as Abdul Malik, in the Banda Shiekh Ismail area of Akbarpura in Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 16, reports Daily Times. Read less...

Unidentified militants blew up a CD shop at Chowki Mamraiz area of Nowshera District on January 17, reports Dawn. Read less...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government proposed amendments to the relevant laws to protect the identity of judges, prosecutors and witnesses in terrorism related cases, reports Dawn. The proposal has been sent to the Federal Government in writing, according to provincial Home Secretary Azam Khan. Read less...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home Department has approved a plan to renovate 274 Police mobile vans turning them into bullet-proof vehicles in the wake of security situation on January 18, reports Daily Times. Read less...

A girl’s primary school was blown up by unidentified militants in Badabher, a suburban area of the Peshawar city. According to the details, miscreants planted explosives near the main gate of the school which is situated in Mashoo Khel Village and detonated it with a remote control. Two rooms of the school were damaged completely, while the blast also affected some other sections of the school’s building. Read less...

Three unidentified militants on January 19 entered a house in Kot Azam Village in Tank District and killed two persons, reports Daily Times. According to the Security Forces (SFs), three men, wearing uniform, entered the house of Ramzan and Rehman in the Kot Azam Village and shot them dead before fleeing the scene. Read less...

Police arrested four militants following exchange of fire in Sarband area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 20, reports Daily Times. According to the sources, the encounter took place when the militants opened fire at Police near Riaz Shaheed checkpoint. Police retaliation injured one attacker. Police arrested the injured attacker and the other four militants. Read less...

Unidentified militants on January 21 abducted a Sikh businessman from Quaidabad area of Peshawar (Peshawar District) for ransom, reports The Express Tribune. Rakbir Singh, a shopkeeper in Hayatabad market, was kidnapped outside his house in the Quaidabad area. Read less...

A two-member bench of Peshawar High Court (PHC) took exception to the killing of two ‘missing persons’ and summoned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Police Officer along with several other officials, directing them to explain as to why they failed to trace out the culprits involved in the incidents. The bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Dost Mohammad Khan and Justice Irshad Qaiser also put on notice the principal secretary to the prime minister and federal finance secretary, asking them to submit reply and explain as to why a poor woman whose missing son was allegedly killed in custody should not be provided with appropriate compensation not less than blood money. The bench was hearing over 270 habeas corpus petitions related to ‘missing persons’. The bench fixed February 14 for next hearing after persistent requests made by the DAG and AAG. Read less...

An explosive device, planted near a CD shop at Bacha Khan Chowk on Charssada Road, exploded damaging three shops, reports Daily Times. However, no casualty was reported. According to Police, the target of the blast was a CD shop. Read less...

In a sectarian related attack, one doctor, Dr Shah Nawaz Ali, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in his cantonment area clinic on Liaquat Street in Saddar Bazaar of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 22, reports Dawn. Dr Ali was gunned down inside his clinic at around 4pm. Local residents said that the physician had confined his activities to his profession and had no association with any sectarian group. The apparent reason for the killing was that Dr Ali belonged to Shia sect, local residents added. Earlier this month, Dr Riaz Hussain Shah was shot dead in Dabgari area on January 9. Read less...

Unidentified militants exploded explosive devices planted under two school buses near Chota Lahore in Swabi District. However, no casualty was reported. According to a Police spokesman, the explosive devices, concealed in ghee tins, were planted under the buses parked outside Quaid-e-Azam International Model School. Read less...

A Government-run Kablay Marzay primary school was blown up by unidentified men in Battagram area of Shabqadar in the middle of the night. No casualties were reported. Read less...

Five mortars were fired targeting headquarters of Frontier Corps (FC) in Hayatabad residential area of Peshawar, reports Daily Times. These rockets, however, caused no loss of life nor did any damage to public property, sources said. “Militants fired five mortar rounds in Hayatabad residential area. Three rounds fell inside Frontier Corps residential complex in phase 6 of Hayatabad and two others fell in open field near residential area of civil population,” sources added. Read less...

Four pro-Government tribesmen from a militia were shot dead in the hujra (guest house) of a local person at Gul Bagh village on the suburbs of the provincial metropolis Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar (Peshawar District) on January 23, reports Dawn. Police was told that the tribesmen were asleep inside a room in his hujra when unidentified assailants killed them. A source said that the deceased belonged to Bara tehsil (revenue unit) of Khyber Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) but they had shifted recently to Badhaber area of Peshawar owing to lawlessness in the tribal region. They were identified as Khan Bahadur, Zaryab Gul, Jangrez and Abad. Read less...

Hayatabad Police seized a vehicle loaded with weapons and ammunitions. During search of the vehicle, Police recovered 115 pistols, 16 Kalashnikov rifles and thousands of rounds. “Two persons were arrested on charges of smuggling weapons,” Hayatabad Police said. Read less...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police busted 12 networks of terrorists and rounded up 459 militants and killed 52 others during 2012, a Police communiqué said on January 23, reports The News. It said that during the last 12 months 21 cases of suicide bombings were registered in different parts of the province. At least 21 Policemen were killed and 45 others sustained injuries in these attacks. Similarly, the statement said 386 cases of explosive recovery, missile attacks and blasts at CD and barber shops were registered in which 54 policemen lost lives and 147 were injured, the communiqué said. “One suicide bomber was held, five suicide jackets, 33,036 hand-grenades/dynamites, 6,576 kilogram explosives, 31,416 metre prima chord, 497 rocket shells and 988 metre safety fuses were recovered,” it added. During 2012, a total of 171 Police encounters took place in which 11 Policemen were killed and 14 more injured, the communiqué said, adding, some 48 dacoits were killed and 21 injured in these clashes. Police also recovered 4,715 rifles and light machine guns, 8,702 shotguns, 36,420 pistols, 4,923 Kalashnikov rifles, 2,356 Kalakov, 327 hand-grenades, 51 Stengun and machinegun, 33 bombs and 2019,594 cartridges were recovered. Read less...

Twin blasts in Charsadda town in the District, on the occasion of the death anniversaries of Khudai Khidmatgar Khan Abdul Ghaffar and ANP leader Khan Abdul Wali Khan created panic. The first blast took place at 4 pm near the Motorway Interchange, 10 minutes after the motorcade of leaders of Awami National Party (ANP) led by its provincial chief Senator Afrasiab Khattak crossed the area. Police said a remote-controlled bomb planted by unidentified men along the road between a CNG station and the Motorway Interchange exploded, but it caused no casualties or damage to property. The second blast took place at 11 am when an explosive device planted in a shopping bag and placed in the garbage dump in front of Zakat office on Mardan road went off just before the arrival of the bomb disposal squad to defuse it. Read less...

Unidentified assailants shot dead two Afghan clerics at a mosque in Kata Kani area of Hangu city in same District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on in the night of January 23, reports Dawn. Sources said that the mosque attack occurred in Kata Kani area, where the Afghan refugees had been living for past several months. Those killed were identified as Maulana Zahir and Maulana Mohammad Yousuf. One person was injured in the attack. Read less...

Militants rained more mortar shells on Peshawar on the second consecutive day as four shells landed in Hayatabad on January 24. Sources said four mortar shells, fired from Shalobar area in Bara tehsil (revenue unit) of Khyber Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), landed in Phase-VI, Hayatabad, injuring two children. Read less...

Police recovered 75 kilogrammes of explosive material, two rockets and two landmines during a search operation in Jaffarabad Colony in Gillani Town of Dera Ismail Khan District. Read less...

A patrol party of the Motorway Police escaped unhurt in a roadside blast in Nowshera town of same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 27, reports The News. Deputy Superintendent of Motorway Police Sajjad Sial said they were on a routine patrol on the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway near Marhati Banda when they saw a man with a briefcase. “We stopped and approached the man to find out the purpose of his waiting,” Sajjad said, adding that the man ran away towards a motorbike on the other side of the road, leaving the briefcase on the road. The explosion occurred as soon as the suspected man left the place on the motorcycle, he added. Read less...

A blast in a shop in the Sarband, a suburb of Peshawar, had panicked Policemen deployed at the nearby checkpost in the night of January 28. In the early report Police said the explosion was caused by a gas cylinder, later, the experts from bomb disposal unit said it was caused by explosives. Read less...

Police on January 28 arrested two suspected militants and recovered a huge quantity of explosives and weapons during a raid on a depot on Ring Road in Peshawar, reports Central Asia Online. The arms and explosives were hidden underground, Ismail Khan, Assistant Superintendent of Police for the Gul Bahar area, said. The cache included 116 kilograms of explosives, thousands of bullets, rocket-propelled grenades, 25 mortar shells and 80 hand grenades. Read less...

A man was killed and three others sustained injuries in a blast in Acheeni Mera near Al-Hamra Township in Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP, reports The News. Unidentified militants had planted explosives in fields in Acheeni that went off, killing one tribesman, Sardar, hailing from Zakhakhel area in Bara tehsil (revenue unit) of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and injuring Gul Shah, Fazal and another person, who couldn’t be identified. Some reports said the bomb had been planted near a gambling den and the militants had reportedly warned of target it. However, the Police didn’t confirm this version. Read less...

Unidentified militants lobbed hand grenade on Baamkhel Police check-post in Swabi District on January 29, reports Daily Times. However, no causality was reported. According to details, unknown assailants riding a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Police check-post in Baamkhel area. A car parked near the post was damaged while the Policemen on duty remained unhurt. Read less...

Unidentified militants shot dead a Policeman escorting a polio vaccination team in Kala, a village in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), on January 29, reports Daily Times. The team was heading to a nearby village after vaccinating children in Kala, when two armed motorcyclists shot at them and fled the area, Police said. “The team, after finishing the campaign in Kala, was heading towards a nearby village when three men armed with Kalashnikovs appeared from sugarcane fields and opened fire,” District Police Officer Swabi Abdul Rasheed Khan said. Read less...

The KP Home and Tribal Affairs Department announced team for carrying out inspection of the arms and ammunition manufacturers and dealers as well as licence branches of Bannu division. An official statement said the team would be carrying out inspection of arms manufacturing and dealership units in first week of February. The inspection team will furnish reports along with its recommendations to the competent authority by February 11, 2013. Read less...

The Police arrested a militant, Asif Naveed, during a raid on a house in Kumharnwala in the limits of City Police Station in Dera Ismail Khan town of the same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and recovered explosives from his possession on January 30, reports The News. The recovery includes a suicide jacket, 15 kilograms of explosives and a pistol. Read less...

At least 10 persons were injured in a low-intensity bomb blast targeting a Police mobile van in the Firdus area under limits of Hashtnagri Police Station in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, on January 31, reports Daily Times. According to Police, the vehicle was on routine patrol on the GT Road near Jinnah Park. The Police vehicle narrowly escaped the explosion, while six other vehicles were partially damaged. Read less...