Police Stations Understaffed in Punjab, KP and Sindh: Report
28 June 2011
The police stations in Sindh, Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) were understaffed to a varying degree, the police stations in Balochistan and Islamabad capital territory were heavily overstaffed, according to Free and Fair Election Network (FAFEN’s) police station monitor. This report is based on information collected by FAFEN monitors who visited 90 police stations in 62 districts across the country during January - March 2011. Of the monitored...
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Summary of Recent Security Incidents
24 June 2011
At least five persons were killed and three others injured as fighting between rival armed groups intensified in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Thursday. Also, a khasadar was killed by unidentified assailants in Jawaki area of Frontier Region of Kohat on Thursday. Sources said that volunteers of Zakhakhel Qaumi Lashkar and members of banned militant organisation Lashkar-i-Islam traded heavy fire in Tora Vela of Tirah. They said that volunteers...
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Militants Kill At Least Six in Khyber District Ambush
22 June 2011
At least five militants and a tribal policeman were killed in a rebel ambush and a bomb attack at checkpoints in Pakistan's lawless tribal belt on Wednesday, officials said. The ambush took place before dawn at the Sarband checkpoint just outside the town of Bara in Khyber district, part of Pakistan's tribal region on the Afghan border where Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked networks have bases. "More than 30 militants launched a two-pronged attack on...
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Tribal Militias Seek Official Support to Fight Taliban but Face Skepticism
08 June 2011
When hundreds of militants began pouring across the Afghan border into his district of Upper Dir last week, tribal elder Haji Malak Mutabar Khan gathered a few dozen neighbors, piled everyone into jeeps, and raced off to fight them. Mr. Khan’s group of minutemen – known in Pakistan as a lashkar – held down the Taliban as more locals emerged to help. The next day, the Pakistan Army arrived and routed the militants back into Afghanistan....
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KP Petitions NATO, Pakistan, and Afghanistan for Future Security after Fourth Day of Taliban Attack in Upper Dir
06 June 2011
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government on Saturday condemned the ‘infiltration’ of militants from Afghanistan into Dir Upper and asked both the Pakistan and Afghan governments to take measures for preventing occurrence of such events in future. The provincial government made the demand in a special meeting chaired by Chief Minister Ameer Haider Khan Hoti here on Saturday. The meeting was convened to discuss aftermaths of a militants’...
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At Least 24 Killed in Attacks in Nowshera, Peshawar
06 June 2011
At least 18 people were killed in a bomb blast at a bakery in Nowshera, while six others were killed and seven injured when a timed device went off at a crowded bus stand on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday, police and government officials said. “It was a remote-controlled bomb planted in a dustbin at the entrance of the bakery on the main Mall Road in Nowshera,” Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the provincial information minister, told AFP....
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Pakistan Rebukes Afghanistan as Dir Siege Continues into Third Day
03 June 2011
Pakistan issued a sharp diplomatic rebuke to Afghanistan on Thursday after hundreds of Afghan Taliban militants crossed over into its territory, attacked Shaltalu checkpoint in the northwestern district of Upper Dir and sparked a long and fierce gun battle. At least 27 security personnel and three civilians were killed in a battle with the intruding militants, officials said. Some 45 militants were also killed in a joint operation of the paramilitary...
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Hundreds of Afghan, Pakistan Taliban Continue "Joint" Border Attack
02 June 2011
Hundreds of heavily armed Taliban besieged a Pakistani checkpost on the Afghan border for a second day Thursday, killing 23 police and five civilians in the deadliest fighting for months. A senior police official told AFP that 500 militants, including Afghan Taliban from across the border and Pakistani Taliban, took part in the attack which began before dawn on Wednesday and continued more than 24 hours later. Officials said the militants targeted...
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Militancy in Khyber Agency: Backgrounder
30 May 2011
The Khyber Agency in Pakistan has emerged in recent times as a centre of sectarian conflict - partially as a result of the spillover of deep-rooted differences between Sunni and Shia Muslims in the nearby Kurram Agency and partially as a reaction to efforts by hardline Sunni groups to establish their writ in the area. One of seven tribal agencies located along the Pakistan-Afghan border, the strategically significant Khyber Agency offers easy access...
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Hangu Bazaar Suicide Attack Kills Dozens
27 May 2011
At least 28 people, four policemen among them, were killed and 55 injured when a suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a checkpoint in Hangu bazaar on Thursday. Officials said the pick-up was laden with 450kg of explosives. It was detonated by the bomber as soon as he reached the police post. The nearby official residence of the district coordination officer, offices of the Hangu police chief and the special branch, the city police station, 17 shops,...
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