Police foils another terrorist attack in Karachi, arrests four

KARACHI: Police foiled another terrorist attack on Shia “Imam Bargahs” during Muharram by arresting four suspected militants on Thursday, FTNews reported. Talking to media representatives, SP Aslam Khan claimed that the arrested were belonged to banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP.) Suicide jackets, hand grenades, pistols and other weapons were recovered from the arrested suspects, said Khan. It is important to mention that two scouts performing Muharram duty at the Numaish intersection on the city’s main M.A. Jinnah Road were killed and another injured in an attack on the first day of the holy month (November 27.) At least eight people, including a reporter of Waqt television, were injured and a car, a van and around two dozen motorcycles...

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Bomb targets official in Peshawar: police

PESHAWAR: A bomb exploded near the office of a regional government official in Peshawar early on Thursday, police officials said, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. A wall of the district coordination officer’s building collapsed after the blast, which was heard throughout the cit...

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