Another police officer on polio duty shot dead in Pak s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ANI | Updated: Aug 03, 2021 12:47 IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], August 3 (ANI): A police officer assigned to protect a polio vaccination team was shot dead by gunmen in Dera Ismail Khan city of Pakistan s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
A police official said that a 30-year-old detective foot constable, Dilawar Khan of Hathala who was posted at the Kulachi police station, was shot dead by unidentified attackers on Kulachi Road in the Atal Sharif area during polio duty, Dawn reported.
The gunmen managed to flee the spot.
Pakistani terrorists often target polio vaccination teams. Terror groups consider anti-polio vaccines as a Western conspiracy to sterilise Muslims.
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DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The police arrested a suspected terrorist and seized 850 grams of explosives and weapons from a van at the Hathala checkpost here on Monday.
A police official said during search of the vehicle, the Kulachi police arrested the suspected terrorist, Azeem Marwat, and recovered 850 grams of explosives, two rifles, a pistol, two barrels of heavy weapons and 67,496 rounds. He said three other suspects travelling in the van managed to flee.
The police registered a case against the four under different sections of the Anti-Terrorism Act.
Separately, an improvised explosive device went off in the University police station area, and another was defused by the bomb disposal squad personnel. Police said no casualty was reported from the incident.
Explosives, weapons seized, 2 held in DI Khan
National February 1, 2021
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: The police seized explosives and weapons and arrested the alleged two arms smugglers at Hathala check-post on Dera-Tank road on Sunday.
The police said that they signaled a truck loaded with onions at Hathala check-post on Dera-Tank road for checking. During checking, they said the police recovered two kilogram explosives, a light machinegun, one M-4 American gun and 4,8600 cartridges concealed under sacks of onion.
The police also arrested the alleged smugglers, whose names could not be ascertained. The police claimed that the explosives and weapons were being smuggled for terror activities but the timely action saved the area from destruction.