In the latest terror attack, a child was killed and five others injured after a suspected Improvised Explosive Device (IED) blast that took place in Rajouri's Upper Dangri village on Monday morning, the police said.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan provinces remained under the grip of criminal activities as Pakistan suffered close to 376 terror attacks the previous year, Dailytimes reported citing a report by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) on Sunday.
In its annual report, the Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) said Pakistan security forces lost at least 282 personnel during 2022 in attacks that included IED ambushes, suicide attacks, and raids on security posts, mostly in the Pakistan-Afghan border regions.
In view of the rising terror attacks in Pakistan, Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif chaired a meeting of the National Security Committee (NSC), the principal decision-making forum on foreign policy and national security, reported The Dawn.
As per District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Shoaib, a group of terrorists attacked a police picket, located in the limits of Kulachi police station in Dera Ismail Khan. The terrorists were equipped with the latest weapons including rocket launchers.
On December 11 this year Taliban from Afghanistan shelled Pakistan's border killing seven civilians. Pakistan in retaliation killed one Taliban individual and injured ten Afghan locals. Further on December 15, the two sides exchanged artillery fire killing at least one Pakistani Civilian and
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former federal minister Fawad Chaudhary on Monday lambasted Shehbaz Sharif's ruling coalition for the country's deteriorating economy and announced that PTI would issue White Paper on Pakistan's worsening economy, ARY News reported.
The TTP in the last year has conducted hundreds of terror attacks on the police and army headquarters in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Quetta in the Balochistan region.