Three terrorists, including two in captivity, on Tuesday, were killed in an alleged gunfight in the hills of Banjot, Mangalwar, Swat, Pakistan Today reported citing the Regional Police Officer (RPO) Malakand Division confirmed.
A shocking incident was reported from Karachi's Port Qasim area in Pakistan on Wednesday, as dacoits attacked a police officer when he resisted a robbery bid, according to ARY News.
Senior Pakistani journalist Sami Abraham has been taken away by unidentified men in Islamabad on Wednesday, his family claimed, saying that there was no information available regarding his location, Dawn reported.
Amid deteriorating law and order in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, two soldiers and three terrorists were killed in the wee hours on Sunday in a military operation, reported Dawn.
Chief of Pakistan's Islamist political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), Sirajul Haq escaped a suicide attack on Friday, which injured at least 7 people, according to Geo News.
A girl child was killed in the Swat region of Pakistan after a police officer stationed outside a school unexpectedly opened fire at a school van, Dawn reported.
"We asked him if he was tortured. He said he had been experiencing pain in his heart since morning," one of his lawyers was quoted by the PTI as saying.
In a recent episode, there were numerous attacks that were reportedly terror-related reported from various locations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, but there was no official word from the military or security services regarding the occurrences or the number of casualties, reported Dawn.
The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) said Tuesday that the conduct of elections on May 14 is becoming impossible owing to the lack of resources and forces to maintain law and order in its answer to the Supreme Court of Pakistan about elections in Punjab, Geo News reported.
Local political leaders and people from the business community staged protests in opposition to the entry of several armed men into the Tirah Valley of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, The News International reported.
Near the Sherpao Bridge in Lahore's Gulberg, an official of the Special Branch of the Police was allegedly shot at and hurt by unidentified attackers, Dawn reported.