Tag: Hostages

Gaganyaan’s Flight Test Vehicle Abort Mission-1 (TV-D1) will take place between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. on October 21, 2023, from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. | Photo Credit: ANI Hamas releases two U.S. hostages as Israel readies Gaza invasionGaza’s Hamas rulers released two Americans on Friday among some ...

ISLAMABAD — Pakistani security forces have retaken a police station that was captured, killing all 33 hostage-takers, the defense minister has said.Militants from the Pakistani Taliban seized the center in the remote northwestern Bannu district on Sunday.Several people, including security officials, were inside at the time.The Defense Minister Khawaja ...

The siege ended with all militants killed, and all hostages freed, the defence minister said. Source link

#Pakistan News All hostages were rescued after Pakistani security forces retook a counterterrorism interrogation center Tuesday, two days after terrorists seized it, security sources said. Security forces were working to clear the entire compound after launching the operation to free the hostages from the Pakistani Taliban militants, who snatched ...

Source link www.rferl.org Pakistani security forces on December 20 launched an operation to rescue hostages held by local Taliban militants at the Counter-Terrorism Police Center in the northwestern city of Bannu, sources told RFE/RL. Source link Copyright (c) 2019. RFE/RL, Inc. Reprinted with the permission ...

KARACHI, PakistanSuspected militants have killed at least one security official after they took over a portion of a police station in northwest Pakistan, demanding a "safe passage" in exchange for the release of several personnel, officials and local media reported on Monday.A group of suspected militants detained at a ...

Pakistani militants have stormed a police station and taken hostages in an attack in the northwest of the country. Source link

new DelhiPublished: Dec 19, 2022 03:13:07 pmTaliban prisoners in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province seized the weapons of the police and took over the counter-insurgency centre. 30 Taliban fighters are involved in the incident and more than 10 people are reported to be taken hostage. They are demanding safe evacuation ...

New Delhi: Taliban militants on Sunday (December 18, 2022) seized a counter-terrorism centre in Pakistan's troubled Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and took hostages. Police confirmed that there is a "hostage situation" ongoing at the Counter-terrorism Department installation at Bannu Cantonment. "The militants infiltrated into the Cantonment and freed imprisoned ...

Islamist militants seized a jail in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday and took hostages to negotiate with government authorities, officials said. The prison is located in the Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province which borders Afghanistan. Authorities say the prison is for individuals involved in terrorism-related offenses. Bannu police spokesman Muhammad Naseeb told the Reuters news agency, "It's not clear ...