In a letter written to Islamabad's chief commissioner, the DIG recommended pf forming the eight-member JIT where 3 DSPs and two officers from intelligence agencies will be there and would be headed by the SSP of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD).
A powerful car bomb detonated in a residential area in Pakistan's capital on Friday, killing two suspected militants and an officer, police said, raising fears that militants have a presence in one of the country's safest cities, reported Irish Examiner.
Dawar's tweet comes as Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the explosion in Islamabad that killed a policeman and injured six other people after a car with explosives blasted near a clinic in the federal capital, Pakistani media reported.
Taking to Twitter, the Islamabad police said that while checking the vehicles, they stopped a suspicious car. As soon as the car stopped, the suicide bomber blew himself up.
Militants armed with rocket launchers and heavy weapons forced their way into the police station in Wana, the Dawn newspaper reported. A policeman inside at the time of the attack told Dawn that around 50 militants entered the station after blowing up the front gate.
The Delhi High Court has recently directed the Delhi government to take a decision on releasing of Rs one crore compensation to the kin of a Delhi Police Constable, the first policeman who died on duty during the first wave of Covid-19.
The police team chased the car and stopped it after it covered around four kilometres. During the checking of the car, a pistol and a revolver was recovered from the car.
Mumbai Fire Service said the fire erupted Kherwadi police station in Bandra (E) area in which a policeman was critically injured. Fire tenders rushed to the spot and put the fire under control.
One Pakistani policeman was killed in a terrorist attack in the Bannu region of Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Thursday, making it the second attack on security personnel in Bannu.
The newspaper further reported that the policeman, on Tuesday, said that unidentified miscreants abducted three friends, hailing from the Bannu district from a jeweller's shop in late night hours and later shot them dead.