police Archives - Dissent Today https://dissenttoday.net/tag/police/ Speaking Truth to Power Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:55:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 4 Policemen Abducted By Militants In South Waziristan https://dissenttoday.net/featured/waziristan-police-militants-taliban-security/ https://dissenttoday.net/featured/waziristan-police-militants-taliban-security/#respond Fri, 24 Jan 2025 06:55:44 +0000 https://dissenttoday.net/?p=8912 PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A group of terrorists abducted four policemen after carrying out an attack on a police post in Umar Raghzai, South Waziristan. The assailants were reportedly armed with both light and heavy weaponry. The attack took place late Wednesday night. According to police reports, they took the four officers hostage and moved them to […]

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]]> PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A group of terrorists abducted four policemen after carrying out an attack on a police post in Umar Raghzai, South Waziristan.

The assailants were reportedly armed with both light and heavy weaponry. The attack took place late Wednesday night.

According to police reports, they took the four officers hostage and moved them to an undisclosed location.

Authorities have confirmed that four officers are currently unaccounted for and stated that an investigation has been initiated regarding the incident.

The missing officers have been identified as Akbar, Jan Mohammad, Sultan, and Naseeb.

Security forces have launched a search operation in the area to find the missing officers and apprehend those responsible for the attack.

Local residents have been increasingly troubled by the deteriorating security conditions in Waziristan over the past year. This incident has led to a new wave of fear in the restive South Waziristan districts.

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]]> https://dissenttoday.net/featured/waziristan-police-militants-taliban-security/feed/ 0 PTM Workers Face Crackdown, Restrictions Ahead of Islamabad Rally Against Enforced Disappearances https://dissenttoday.net/featured/ptm-workers-face-crackdown-restrictions-ahead-of-islamabad-jalsa-outside-supreme-court/ https://dissenttoday.net/featured/ptm-workers-face-crackdown-restrictions-ahead-of-islamabad-jalsa-outside-supreme-court/#respond Fri, 18 Aug 2023 07:46:43 +0000 https://dissenttoday.net/?p=4548 Ahead of civil rights group Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)’s rally against enforced disappearances outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, several PTM activists and supporters have been arrested on their way to the federal capital. The arrestees include workers of National Democratic Movement (NDM). On Thursday, Islamabad administration imposed Section 144 for an indefinite period, banning […]

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]]> Ahead of civil rights group Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)’s rally against enforced disappearances outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, several PTM activists and supporters have been arrested on their way to the federal capital. The arrestees include workers of National Democratic Movement (NDM).

On Thursday, Islamabad administration imposed Section 144 for an indefinite period, banning rallies in the federal capital. The PTM jalsa is scheduled to be held at 3pm today (Friday), and organisers have vowed to go ahead with it despite the crackdown and restrictions.

PTM’s Naimatullah Wazir and NDM’s Hassan Nasir are among those who have been taken into custody. Earlier, more than 80 members of the PTM were reportedly arrested from Shewa, Hangu after the police stopped their convoy heading to Islamabad.

Activist Talimand Khan announced on X (formerly Twitter) that his younger brother had been arrested “as part of midnight crackdown on PTM”.

Lawyer and human rights activist Imaan Mazari said that the crackdown on PTM has been ongoing since 2018 and includes arbitrary arrests and enforced disappearances of its workers as well as mala fide prosecutions against them. “This is the second big jalsa they are planning to hold in Islamabad. They are being fed to the wolves in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa as is but the State is now trying to entirely suppress their voices through this latest crackdown,” she told Dissent Today.
“PTM’s message resonates with the youth and the State sees that as a threat.”
The rally comes following a joint campaign by a number of human rights organisations on social media against enforced disappearances and for the recover of missing persons. PTM chief Manzoor Pashteen invited the representatives of human rights movements in Balochistan, Gilgit Baltistan and other provinces to join PTM’s jalsa in the capital.

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]]> https://dissenttoday.net/featured/ptm-workers-face-crackdown-restrictions-ahead-of-islamabad-jalsa-outside-supreme-court/feed/ 0 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Policeman Killed In Militant Attack https://dissenttoday.net/news/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-policeman-killed-in-militant-attack/ https://dissenttoday.net/news/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-policeman-killed-in-militant-attack/#respond Tue, 09 May 2023 12:56:14 +0000 https://dissenttoday.net/?p=3919 A policeman was killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in a terrorist attack at a police check post. The KP Police tweeted that Constable Naseem Khan was killed in a terrorist attack on the Bara Al-Hajj post in Khyber. خیبر : علاقہ باڑہ الحاج چوکی پر دہشتگردوں کے حملے سے ڈیوٹی پر تعینات کانسٹیبل نسیم خان […]

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]]> A policeman was killed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in a terrorist attack at a police check post.

The KP Police tweeted that Constable Naseem Khan was killed in a terrorist attack on the Bara Al-Hajj post in Khyber.

There has been a sharp rise in terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa targeting police officials since the start of this year, with 120 policemen losing their lives in at least 77 attacks, mostly claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

At least 120 policemen have been killed and 333 were injured in various attacks this year from January to April, Mashriq Peshawar reported.

Most of the attacks were claimed by TTP.

This is a significant rise from last year as 105 police personnel were killed in 151 militant attacks in 2022.

TTP has been targeting security officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa particularly.

Earlier, two pol­i­cemen were killed and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s sou­thern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat.

In Tank’s Kot Azam area, terrorists had opened fire at a police van deployed for the security of census staff while it was returning from a village. As a result, constable Khan Nawab was killed, while police constables Shah Nawaz and Aslam Khan, Levies official Bismillah, Frontier Constabulary official Abdullah and driver Eid Jan were injured.

Same day in another militant attack on a census team, a Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) police constable was killed in Pirwala area of the Lakki Marwat district when motorcyclists opened fire at the census team.

In January, a blast in Peshawar mosque inside a police compound claimed the lives of more than 60 people. The TTP claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest blasts in the city. Last month a police station in Peshawar was also targeted, resulting in three deaths. Meanwhile, the day after the deadly Peshawar attack, Punjab police thwarted an attack on a police station in Mianwali.

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]]> https://dissenttoday.net/news/khyber-pakhtunkhwa-policeman-killed-in-militant-attack/feed/ 0 120 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Policemen Killed In Terror Attacks Since The Start Of 2023 https://dissenttoday.net/news/120-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-policemen-killed-in-terror-attacks-since-the-start-of-2023/ https://dissenttoday.net/news/120-khyber-pakhtunkhwa-policemen-killed-in-terror-attacks-since-the-start-of-2023/#respond Tue, 02 May 2023 08:23:22 +0000 https://dissenttoday.net/?p=3750 There has been a sharp rise in terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa targeting police officials since the start of this year, with 120 policemen losing their lives in at least 77 attacks, mostly claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). At least 120 policemen have been killed and 333 were injured in various attacks this year from […]

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There has been a sharp rise in terror attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa targeting police officials since the start of this year, with 120 policemen losing their lives in at least 77 attacks, mostly claimed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

At least 120 policemen have been killed and 333 were injured in various attacks this year from January to April, Mashriq Peshawar reported.

Most of the attacks were claimed by TTP.

This is a significant rise from last year as 105 police personnel were killed in 151 militant attacks in 2022.

TTP has been targeting security officials in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa particularly.

Earlier, two pol­i­cemen were killed and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s sou­thern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat.

In Tank’s Kot Azam area, terrorists had opened fire at a police van deployed for the security of census staff while it was returning from a village. As a result, constable Khan Nawab was killed, while police constables Shah Nawaz and Aslam Khan, Levies official Bismillah, Frontier Constabulary official Abdullah and driver Eid Jan were injured.

Same day in another militant attack on a census team, a Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) police constable was killed in Pirwala area of the Lakki Marwat district when motorcyclists opened fire at the census team.

In January, a blast in Peshawar mosque inside a police compound claimed the lives of more than 60 people. The TTP claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest blasts in the city. Last month a police station in Peshawar was also targeted, resulting in three deaths. Meanwhile, the day after the deadly Peshawar attack, Punjab police thwarted an attack on a police station in Mianwali.

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