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| Police begin probe as two personnel martyred in Kohat militant attack |
| 2023-04-06 |
| [Dawn] The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa police have begun an investigation into the martyrdom of two Kohat coppers in Monday night bully boy attack. Also, an official of the traffic police was martyred in a gun attack in Lower Dir district, while a bully boy was killed and two injured in a police crackdown in Dera Ismail Khan ... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ... district. SHO of Kohat’s Mohammad Riaz Shaheed cop shoppe Islamuddin told Dawn that police personnel Ayaz and Qasim were attacked by holy warriors on the Bannu Road in Mirozai area on Monday night when they’re on the way to the Abu Bakar and Hamza mosques to perform security duty for taraveeh prayers. He said the bullets fired by the attackers pierced the helmets and bulletproof vests worn by the coppers. The SHO said funeral prayers for the dear departed were offered at the police lines on Tuesday. Provincial police chief Akhtar Hayat Khan Gandapur formed a two-member committee to probe the bully boy attack. A notification issued by the Central Police Office said a fact-finding committee comprising DSP (Logistics) at the CPO Sanaullah and sub-inspector Safdar Khan would look into the attack and submit its report within a week. It added that the committee would visit the place of crime, ascertain the kind of weapons used to kill police personnel, and examine the helmets and jackets issued to the dear departed. It will check what "security gadgets" the two police personnel received from the department for permanent and temporary use. Meanwhile, ...back at the comedy club, Boogie sadly admitted that he was a better peeping Tom than he was a comedian... a motorcyclist shot a traffic police constable dead in the Talash Bazaar of Lower Dir district and fled. The police identified the dear departed as Bakht Zamin, a 35-year-old resident of Ouch Sharqi, and said he was attacked while performing duty at a busy intersection. They said they had started the paperwork but haven't done much else and started a search for the gunman. Local SHO Tauhid Khan told Dawn that Bakht Zamin was a victim of assassination. The dear departed’s family claimed that it had no enmity. Also, the Dera Ismail Khan police said it killed a bully boy group’s member and injured others in a pre-dawn operation in the Kot Essa area in the wee hours of Tuesday. The operation was launched by the provincial police’s Albarq Unit at 3am in the jurisdiction of the Daraban cop shoppe on a tip-off about the presence of bully boy commander Mazhar Gandapur. The police said bully boy Ansar Abbas, a resident of Kot Essa area, was killed in an exchange of fire with police, while other members of the bully boy group, including its commander Mazhar Gandapur, fled. District police officer Rauf Qaiserani toldDawnthat Mazhar Gandapur and another bully boy were believed to be maimed by the police gunfire. He said the sub-machine guns snatched from the police were also seized along other unlicensed arms. Last month, a police constable was killed and two others injured by the same bully boy group in the area. Related: Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: 2023-04-03 Christian worker shot dead in Peshawar Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: 2023-04-01 TTP, Other Militant Groups Obtain US Arms Left Behind in Afghanistan Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa: 2023-04-01 Soldier martyred during exchange of fire with terrorists in North Waziristan: ISPR |
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