Pakistan's Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) has arrested four people, whom the officials termed as "wanted terrorists," who were involved in receiving ransom.
Four terrorists were killed and three more were left injured during an operation by the Pakistan military in the tribal districts of Bajaur and Khyber.
The security forces in the Dara Adam Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed banned outfit Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) commander Zafar Khan along with his two group members during an Intelligence-Based Operation (IBO) on Sunday, Geo News reported.
Pakistani analyst Imtiaz Gul, Executive Director of the Center for Research and Security Studies, Islamabad, wrote for East Asia Forum in March that terrorist attacks peaked in 2013, averaging just under four attacks a day, with nearly 2700 total fatalities.
The KU, the highest seat of learning in Kashmir, is among the 15 institutions in the country that were chosen to represent the nation and host Y20 events during India's Presidency of the G20 in the current year, according to a report.
Hours after being named and shamed by External Affairs Minister Jaishankar as "as a promoter, justifier and spokesperson of a terrorism industry which is the mainstay of Pakistan", Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari termed his visit to India to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organis
During the period, almost 854 people have been killed or injured in terror activities and anti-terror actions in Pakistan. A total of 358 people have been killed, and 496 injured from January to March 2023. This number is half of the total deaths in the year 2022.
Alarmed by this rising graph of terrorist attacks, the squabbling institutions have shown signs of a truce and pulling back from the precipice the country has reached. But it is an uneasy, even brittle pause.
The rise in the number of people who were killed or injured in terrorist attacks underscores how serious the challenge is and Pakistan is in the middle of a full-blown internal war.
According to the report, prepared by the Centre for Research and Security Studies, the number of deaths was 358 and that of injuries was 496, which resulted from as many as 219 terrorist attacks and counterterrorism operations during the January-March period.