1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....
Counter-Terrorism Department’s team in Mianwali’s Kalabagh came under attack by a group of armed Lions of Islam belonging to the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
...the Pashtun equivalent of men...
Pakistan (TTP) on Thursday night, the CTD said.
According to a statement issued by the CTD on Friday, the Lions of Islam and security officials exchanged fire for 20 minutes during which a terrorist was killed.
"The slain murderous Moslem was an important TTP commander identified as Habibur Rehman," it said, revealing that a Kalashnikov, suicide jacket and TTP stickers were recovered from the terrorist’s possession.
The statement said that two Death Eaters managed to escape during the exchange of fire and a grand search operation has been launched to arrest them.
"A case against the attack has been registered at the CTD cop shoppe in Sargodha," the statement added.
There were no reports of any injuries to CTD personnel during the attack.
Thursday’s attack is significant in that Death Eaters — who had so far targeted cop shoppes and checkposts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
and areas bordering Afghanistan — have set their sights in Punjab.
Earlier this month, a cop shoppe in Mianwali had also come under a gun attack by a group of TTP terrorists. Fortunately, no injuries to the police personnel were reported. After the attack, the Punjab police had launched a grand counterterrorism operation in the highly complex and inaccessible hilly areas of the district.
HAND GRENADE HURLED AT PESHAWAR COP SHOPPE
Meanwhile,
...back at the revival hall, the SWAT team had finally arrived...
unidentified attackers hurled a hand grenade at Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...’s Chamkani cop shoppe between 3am and 4am on Friday morning, the police said.
Peshawar Rural Superintendent of Police (SP) Zafar Ahmed told Dawn.com that the attackers were on cycle of violences. "The coppers were alert and they retaliated in full fire after which the men fled."
He said that some cycle of violences parked inside the cop shoppe suffered damage. However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
no loss of life or injuries were reported.
"Peshawar police is more alert than before to fail terrorists’ wicked plans and face them," SP Ahmed added.
He further said that additional police convoys have been called and a search operation is under way in nearby areas.
Last week, the CTD claimed to have killed a suspected terrorist allegedly belonging to the TTP in an encounter and arrested 11 other members of banned outfits from different cities during intelligence-based operations (IBOs) across Punjab.
January was the deadliest month since 2018, in which 134 people bit the dust — a 139 per cent spike — and 254 received injuries in at least 44 murderous Moslem attacks across the country.