Tag: Target killing
Protest against N. Waziristan target killings enters fourth week
A district-wide protests by North Waziristan locals against growing incidents of target killings have entered their fourth week.
Rights Watch | 28th June 2022
A polio worker and two police officers were killed when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in North Waziristan's Datta Khel tehsil on Tuesday. A polio eradication campaign was launched in teh area on June 9 after 11 positive cases emerged this year.
63 dead, one struggling to survive following Peshawar terror attack
63 people were killed in last week’s terror attack on a Peshawar imambargah, orchestrated by IS-Khorasan. Meanwhile, CTD claims to have killed three IS-Khorasan militants in an encounter.
PFUJ condemns targeted killing of journalist
The PFUJ strongly condemned the targeted murder of Metro1 News correspondent Shahid Zehri in Balochistan's Hub. Zehri is the third journalist killed in Pakistan this year.
No arrests in Sikh man’s murder as IS claims responsibility
Police in Peshawar said no arrests have been made yet in the murder of a Sikh herbalist as a banned militant group Islamic State claimed responsibility for his killing.
Rights Watch | 15th June 2021
A resident of Jatli in Gujar Khan has been accused of raping a woman, blackmailing her into silence, and then inducing a forced abortion with the aid of his family, a lady doctor and several others. For more news on human rights abuses, keep reading.
The Janikhel’s long battle for peace
June 11th, 2021; By Hamid Riaz, Hassan Raza & Arshad Mohmand; LAHORE/PESHAWAR; "Govt is offering me money. I say to them 'bring me your fathers & your sons & let me kill one of them & then accept money in exchange for their lives just like you are expecting me to," says Rafiullah, son of the slain tribal elder.
Female aid workers express outrage at Waziristan killings
February 26th, 2021; Bureau Report; PESHAWAR; Female aid workers say they face violence in homes and are killed when they go out for work as protests express outrage at the killings of their four colleagues in North Waziristan.
‘Operations have failed to rid Waziristan of terrorists’
December 7th, 2020; By Rehan Piracha; LAHORE; Terrorists are still killing residents in Waziristan despite a decade of security operations in the region, says MPA Mir Kalam Wazir from North Waziristan in a panel discussion with Voicepk.net.
شمالی وزیرستان میں نا معلوم افراد کی فائرنگ سے چار قبائلی عمائدین شہید
تحریر: فرزانہ علی; پشاور; شمالی وزیرستان میں تین سالوں میں ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے 275 واقعات ہو چکے ہیں۔ مقامی افراد کے پاس تو اسلحہ نہیں پھر یہ کون لوگ ہیں جو نان کسٹم پیڈ گاڑیوں میں اسلحے کے ساتھ گھوم رہے ہیں اور لوگوں کو مار رہے ہیں۔شمالی وزیرستان کے مقامی افراد کا سوال
