(14July to 22 July)

Balochistan

Five persons including two women and three children were injured during a terrorist attack on the Security forces camp in Kalat (15 July).

KPK

Unidentified gunmen shot and injured DSP Farooq Zaman near Ghundo police post, Baizai area, Mardan district (10 July).

Comments & Analysis: Earlier terrorists had attacked this check post in December 2022 in which a police constable was martyred. It appears that miscreants and terrorists have relatively easy access to this area due to their local facilitators and informers. Intelligence operations ought to be launched to trace and track these elements for necessary action against them.

 Police arrested four terrorists affiliated with TTP allied groups of Daulat Khan and Mumtaz Umti from a mountainous area of Hangu district (11 July).

CTD Police killed an Afghan origin terrorist identified as Zafar in an encounter and arrested his accomplice father-in-law Ameenullah from Peshawar involved in the sectarian and minorities citizens killings (11 July).

Comments & Analysis: He was reportedly involved in the killings of Sikhs and Shias recently. There have been reports of involvement of Afghan nationals in criminal and terrorist activities in KPK for quite some time. Probably this persistent trend compelled the COAS to warn or inform the Afghan government about it.

Unidentified assailants killed a tribal elder Malik Khan Zaman in Thani area of Mamond tehsil in Bajaur district (12 July).

Unidentified terrorists martyred a police constable and injured two others in an attack on an under-construction check post in Faqiran area on Hasokhel Road in Mir Ali, North Waziristan district (12 July).

Unidentified assailants killed a tribal elder Malik Shahnawaz Mehsud after being abducted from Daskwara of Makeen in South Waziristan district (14 July).

Unknown miscreants fled away after making an unsuccessful attack on Matni police station in Peshawar district due to retaliatory fire by the police (14 July).

Reportedly, eighteen (18) families of Dagai village, tehsil Razzar of Swabi district received threatening letters from unknown miscreants. The letter contained directions to withdraw their money from their bank accounts and keep the same, along with gold, at their homes otherwise be ready to face dire consequence (15 July). Police took swift action and arrested a gang of six criminals who had written this letter. Rs 3 million was recovered from them (17 July).

Comments & Analysis: TTP, its affiliates and pretenders make efforts to extort money from the public. Their attempts fail to get the desired results because usually people don’t keep money and gold at home. Now they seem to have come up with a novel idea to first coerce them to withdraw their money from banks so that they may readily extort the desired amount from them. It is an indicator that people and banks are the likely targets of these elements. Local administration and police have taken effective action by arresting the miscreants involved in these activities.

A police constable was injured during the attack of unidentified terrorists on Nasran check post in suburb of Tank city (17 July). The assailants fled away on the retaliatory fire by the police.

Unidentified gunmen martyred a Police Constable named Mubarak Shah in Maday Khan Gate area of Kulachi tehsil of Dera Ismail Khan district (19 July).

A Police Constable was martyred and 9 others including 7 police personnel injured during the two sides suicide attacks by the terrorists on the Tehsil office in Bara bazar of Khyber district (19 July). (Details given in the ‘Counter Terrorism’ Category)

Unidentified terrorists armed with M-4 automatic rifles and night vision sights martyred two Police constables and injured two others during a night attack in the Regi Model Town area of Peshawar (19 July).

Eight FC personnel travelling in a vehicle were injured in a suicide blast in Hayatabad, Peshawar (18 July).

A remote-controlled car bomb explosion in the Mamond area of Bajaur, KPK resulted in injuries to four individuals. It was a remote-controlled car bomb that exploded and wounded four people (20 July)

Comments & Analysis: At least 7 policemen have been killed and 11 others injured by the terrorists during the period under review. Police and FC are being regularly targeted by the terrorists for the last two years. It is high time to devise an effective strategy for the security of the police stations and police patrol parties. It is not a news that the terrorists have acquired night vision telescope fitted American sniper guns. By now the police and LEAs should have been ready to face such weapons. Every police stations should have at least four trained men armed with night vision goggles and sniper guns. Intelligence work should be enhanced to locate the local supporters and sleeper cells.

PUNJAB

CTD Police claimed to have arrested five alleged terrorists identified as Hamid, Syed Mahmood, Tariq, Khalid Mahmood, and Abdul Sattar during different raids across the province. They were affiliated with proscribed organisations and cache of weapons and explosive were also recovered from their possession (15 July).

SINDH

 Three CTD police personnel, travelling in a van, were injured due to the motorcycle born IED blast planted by unknown terrorists on Northern Bypass Road in Karachi (12 July).

Unidentified gunmen shot dead a security guard named Mudassar near Rahat Commercial Centre in Defence-6 area of Karachi (15 July).

A young noha khawan Hussain Haider Naqvi was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Scheme 33 area near Superhighway, Karachi. Investigations are underway to determine whether the incident was a part of sectarian killing or otherwise (15 July).