KARACHI: One suspected militant of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was killed and two others escaped during a joint operation by the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) and a federal intelligence agency in Karachi, officials said. The operation took place near the football ground in Khudadad Colony after authorities received information about the presence of militants of the […]
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KARACHI : Police have identified the three suspects who were killed in an encounter with law enforcement personnel in Machar Colony, authorities confirmed on Wednesday. According to police officials, the slain suspects were in the process of looting a shop when they opened fire on the shopkeeper. The sound of gunfire alerted police personnel
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KARACHI : Commuters faced severe disruption on Saturday after a furnace oil pipeline belonging to the National Refinery leaked in the upscale Defense Khayaban-e-Sahar area, spilling crude oil onto the main thoroughfare. Police officials confirmed that the pipeline, described as “quite old,” runs directly beneath the middle of the road. Upon receiving reports of
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KARACHI : A woman was killed and at least 70 people sustained injuries in indiscriminate aerial firing across various areas of Karachi late Thursday night, marring Pakistan’s 79th Independence Day celebrations with tragedy, officials confirmed on Friday. Despite a strict preemptive warning issued by police against celebratory gunfire, aerial firing erupted in multiple neighborhoods
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KARACHI : In a brazen daylight heist, armed robbers looted Rs 6.5 million from the Edhi Center in Karachi’s Sohrab Goth area on Saturday, sparking outrage and prompting a high-level response from the Sindh government. According to an Edhi spokesperson, the cash had been withdrawn from a bank earlier in the day specifically to disburse
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KARACHI: Two police officers were injured when unidentified assailants hurled a cracker at a police mobile van in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of the city on Wednesday, police officials confirmed. According to rescue sources, the injured officers were promptly rushed to a nearby hospital, where they are currently receiving medical treatment. SSP East assured that
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KARACHI: Pakistani police arrested a man accused of abducting, sexually assaulting and killing a six-year-old boy in Karachi after local residents caught the suspect and handed him over to authorities. Police said the child, identified as Muhammad Wali, was abducted on Monday evening from outside his home in the city’s Lea Market area. Hours later,
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KARACHI: A cargo aircraft operated by K2 Airways crashed into the Arabian Sea off the Karachi coast on Tuesday, with all five people on board confirmed dead, aviation sources said. The Boeing 737 had been sent to Sharjah for repairs after developing a technical fault and was on a ferry flight back to Karachi when
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KARACHI: A cargo aircraft operated by K2 Airways has gone missing approximately 155 nautical miles (about 300 kilometers) west of Karachi while en route from Sharjah to Pakistan, prompting a search and rescue operation by authorities . The Pakistan Airports Authority (PAA) confirmed in a statement Tuesday night that the Boeing 737-400 freighter, operating
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KARACHI: A schoolteacher was shot dead by unidentified motorcycle-riding assailants in what police suspect was a targeted killing in Karachi’s Surjani Town area on Tuesday. Police said the victim, identified as Mudassar Ali, lived near Degree College in Surjani Town and worked as a schoolteacher. According to his family, he left home in the morning
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