According to a handout, police had received a report from an intelligence agency about the presence of the terrorists in the Gundi Ashiq area. AP/File
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Two militants of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, Gandapur group, were killed while four hand-grenades, IEDs, weapons and ammunition were recovered during an operation conducted by the police here on Saturday.
According to a handout, police had received a report from an intelligence agency about the presence of the terrorists in the Gundi Ashiq area.
On receiving the report, members of the Kulachi police and Elite Force reached the spot and cordoned off the area.
LAKKI MARWAT: Ten years after a deadly attack that killed more than 100 people during a volleyball match, New Year’s Day remains a time of grief for Pakistan’s northwestern village of Shah Hassan Khel.
On Jan. 1, 2010, a suicide bomber rammed a double-cabin pickup truck loaded with hundreds of pounds of explosives into families and children crowded on a playground in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province’s Lakki Marwat district, killing 105 people and wounding scores more in what is considered one of the deadliest attacks in the country’s history.
Shah Hassan Khel was chosen because residents of the village were forming a pro-government militia to defend against Taliban assaults. The explosion collapsed homes surrounding the field. Police at the time said the blast was so powerful that it left a number of victims buried under rubble, and authorities were uncertain exactly how many had died.
Peshawar
December 18, 2020
NOWSHERA: The number of fatalities hit the 59 mark as two more Covid-19 patients died in the district on Thursday.
Another 13 persons also tested positive for the coronavirus that took the number of patients suffering from the viral infection to 1,500, officials said.
Briefing the media, Deputy Commissioner Mir Raza Ozgan, District Health Officer Dr Gulman Shah and Dr Yaseen Khan said that the number of coronavirus-infected patients were increasing with the passage of time as people were ignoring the standard operating procedures (SOPs) against the viral infection.
They said that the coronavirus infected two patients identified as Zaitun Bibi, 55, a resident of Jehangira, and another patient Saeeda Bibi, a resident of Hassankhel village in Pabbi Town, lost lives while struggling for life.