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Khuzdar Bus Blast Toll Rises To 6

QUETTA: The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of Balochistan Police registered a case against unknown terrorists in connection with the Khuzdar IED attack on the Army Public School Bus in Khuzdar on the complaint of police on 22-May-2025. The case was registered under murder attempt, murder and Anti-Terrorism act. Sources said that CTD officials have started an investigation into the Khuzdar…

Under-construction Girls’ School Blown Up in Tank

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Unknown assailants on October 24 blew up an under-construction girls primary school with explosives in the suburban village of Gara Budha in Tank district. A police official said that the building, which was in its final stages of completion, sustained severe damage after explosive material, planted under…

5 Children Killed, 13 Injured in Lakki Marwat Mortar Shell Blast

LAKKI MARWAT: Five children were killed and 13 others, including two women,…

Education And Emergencies

TENSIONS between Pakistan and India have once again led to incursions and attacks.…

Stringent Security for Punjab Schools with Higher Walls, Barbed wires, CCTVs

RAWALPINDI: After a suicide attack at the Islamabad district courts and due to heightened security threats, a new 10-point security advisory has been issued for public and private schools across the Rawalpindi division. Permission has also been granted for the recruitment of 30,000 retired military and police personnel on daily…

All Terrorists killed, 650 Students and Teachers Rescued in Cadet College Wana Operation

Security forces killed all terrorists who stormed Cadet College Wana, a town in South Waziristan, and safely evacuated all 650 students and teachers after hours-long operation, security sources confirmed. According to security sources cited by Express News, the attackers, identified as Afghan terrorists, attempted to infiltrate Cadet College Wana. “The assault…

27th Killing in Naudero Feud Forces School Closures, Disrupts Children’s Education

LARKANA: A 35-year-old man was killed in an ambush leading the death toll in an old enmity between two rival communities to 27 in a Naudero village on November 2. Unknown assailants ambushed Shahzado Jaiho while he, along with a friend, Maqsood Raza Mangnejo, was returning home from a clinic…

School Vandalised in South Waziristan

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Unidentified armed men on Oct 29 attacked a government high school in Azam Warsak area of Lower South Waziristan’s Birmal tehsil, looting valuable equipment and damaging the building. Locals said the attackers vandalised classrooms, damaged doors, windows and boundary wall. They said the assailants entered the school early…

Schools in War Mamund to Reopen on Oct 7

BAJAUR: The authorities have ordered immediate reopening of public and private educational institutions in the areas of War Mamund tehsil cleared of terrorists. In a notification issued here on Monday, the education department directed the management of all public and private educational institutions, both boys and girls, in Damadola, Inamkhel,…

Terrorists Bomb Girls’ School, Torch Another in Lakki Marwat

Terrorists struck again at the right to education in Lakki Marwat district, destroying a girls’ primary school in Ghazni Khel tehsil. Fortunately, there were no casualties, though the school building sustained heavy damage. The explosion occurred on the night of September 30 in Pahar Khel Paka village, where unidentified attackers…

School Blown Up in Lakki Marwat

LAKKI MARWAT: The building of a government girls primary school was blown up with explosives in the Wanda Zahidgul area of Lakki Marwat district on the night of August 30. A police official said that the school was located in the trans-river belt in the limits of Dadiwala police station.…

School blown up in South Waziristan

SOUTH WAZIRISTAN: Terrorists blew up a government high school building in Birmal tehsil of Lower South Waziristan early on 10th August, the police said. Birmal circle DSP Asghar Ali Shah told Dawn on phone that terrorists planted explosives along the school’s boundary wall as well as inside the premises before fleeing the…

PM Vows Strong Action Against Perpetrators After School Bus Blast

QUETTA/KHUZDAR: At least six people, including three students, lost their lives and over 40 others — mostly students — sustained injuries after a bomb targeted a school bus in Khuzdar on 21st May, prompting the prime minister to visit Quetta to take stock of the security situation amid across-the-board condemnations.…

Around 7,000 Students Trained To Handle Emergencies

ISLAMABAD: Although the chances of war between Pakistan and India have lessened following the ceasefire, around 7,000 students from Islamabad-based schools and colleges were trained by the Civil Defence Department to handle emergency situations in the federal capital. According to a press release issued by the CDA on Sunday, “Six…