Lethal light weapons in high demand

BY Tariq Habib

KARACHI - The legal and illegal sale of the light weapons in the violence-hit metropolis is skyrocketing as the target killers appear to have an inclination for using the arms that are lethal but handy. These small-sized deadly arms are: 9MM, 30 bore and .22 pistol.




According to police sources, in over 90 percent incidents of targeted killings in the city the killers had used small-size but highly sophisticated weapons during the last five months.

TTP proudly presents: ‘How to attack the CID building’

By Tariq Habib

KARACHI: In a chilling reminder to the threat posed by home-grown militants of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the media wing of the terrorist outfit has released a confessional video, showing in detail how the suicide bomb attack on the Crime Investigation Department (CID) office was planned and executed on November 11, 2010.

Al Qaeda’s Pakistan chief is alive

By Tariq Habib

KARACHI: The CIA’s claim about killing Ustad Ahmed Farooq, head of al Qaeda in Pakistan, proved false when he appeared in a video tape and vowed to avenge the killing of Osama Bin Laden. Farooq was earlier declared killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan on June 3.

3 naval officers face court martial in PNS Mehran case

By Tariq Habib

KARACHI: Pakistan Navy has initiated court martial proceeding against three serving officers for their alleged negligence in the PNS Mehran terror attack. The officers being court martialled include PNS Mehran Commanding Officer Captain Israr, Naval Aviation Commander Commodore Tahir and PNS Mehran Chief Security Officer Lt Commander Abrar.

’200 people went missing during current regime’

KARACHI: More than 200 people have been abducted from various parts of the country in the tenure of the incumbent government - swelling the unofficial count of missing persons to more than 10,000 over the past nine years, Defence of Human Rights Pakistan (DHRP) Chairwoman Aamna Masood Janjua told Pakistan Today on Monday.