The security forces killed three terrorists in an operation in the Khyber district of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reported Dawn citing the military’s media affairs wing.
SNGPL spokesperson said in Peshawar fine of PKR 190,000 was imposed on the violators and PKR 110,000 in Rawalpindi. In Mardan fine of PKR 529,000 was slapped over gas thieves and PKR 178,000 in Gujranwala.
A security forces personnel was killed in a fire exchange with terrorists in the North Waziristan district of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Geo News reported.
Weapons and ammunition were also recovered from the killed terrorist, who remained actively involved in terrorist activities against security forces and killing of innocent civilians, it added.
The elders of the Bar Qambar khel tribe in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bara expressed grave concern over the rising number of targeted killings and requested that law enforcement forces take immediate action to ameliorate the situation, according to Dawn.
Pakistan security forces killed the former group commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Swat in an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) in the Swat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, The Express Tribune reported.
Transporters have expressed their readiness to unilaterally raise fares or initiate a wheel-jam strike if the government does not backtrack on the oil price increase.
Amid protests raging across the country over inflated electricity bills, the residents of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram on Saturday blocked a stretch of the Karakoram Highway near the Khatm-i-Nabuwat Chowk even as authorities cracked down on power theft, Dawn reported.
Pakistan’s Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) has disconnected 241 gas connections in Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Islamabad, imposing a Rs 2.7 million detection bill on many consumers, Dawn reported.