On the night of Feb. 25, 2023, outside Vanderbilt Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Blaise Taylor was answering police questions about how a date turned into a medical emergency. BLAISE TAYLOR (police bodycam): We were together having a date night. Authorities wanted to know what happened to 24-year-old Jade Benning, who had been rushed to…
Sikh separatist Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, who was the target of a foiled 2023 assassination plot allegedly directed by an ex-Indian intelligence official, is facing new threats to his life that are being investigated by the FBI, Pannun told CBS News on Thursday. Pannun, a vocal critic of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, said that FBI…
Washington — The Supreme Court on Friday temporarily allowed construction of the White House ballroom to continue, freezing for now a lower court decision that would have halted above-ground work on the project. Chief Justice John Roberts issued a stay that will remain in place until the Supreme Court takes further action. His order is…
BAJAUR: One cop was martyred while another was wounded after terrorists attacked a police post in Bajaur district’s Barang tehsil in the early hours of Friday. Mansoor Khan, the district police spokesperson, told Dawn that a group of terrorists targeted the police post in Kohi Sar area with rocket launchers and small weapons. He said…
BANNU/SWAT: A terrorist attack on the Chatkekal police post near Jarogo Waterfall in Upper Swat was foiled after police personnel mounted a strong counterattack late on Sunday night, District Police Officer (DPO) Mushtaq Ahmad said. According to police, more than 12 terrorists surrounded the post and opened fire from all sides. The police personnel deployed…
Security forces have killed the mastermind behind the July 30 attack on a police checkpost in Hangu, which claimed the lives of nine police officials, a senior security official told Dawn on Sunday. Security sources identified the slain terrorist as Amir Mauviya, who they said was killed during an intelligence-based operation in Hangu’s Chapri Naryab….
Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi has met a delegation of traders and industrialists from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and Balochistan and assured them that the government would employ all available resources to resolve their issues and ensure their protection, the interior ministry said on Friday. In a statement on X, the ministry said representatives from all chambers…
The Justice Department is seeking to convince a federal judge to deport a Texas-based Afghan woman who prosecutors allege is an “alien terrorist,” it revealed Wednesday, in the first-ever test case before a secretive court that has never convened since it was created three decades ago. Nazira Haji Zada, 47, of Fort Worth, Texas, will…
DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Faisal Karim Kundi on Sunday said that more than 1,300 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the recent attack on a Tank checkpost that resulted in the martyrdom of 15 people, including 14 security personnel. The governor made the remarks while speaking to journalists at the Regional Police Office…
Security forces foiled a suicide bombing in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s South Waziristan district and killed four terrorists, including the suicide bomber, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Saturday. According to the military’s media wing, the terrorists attempted to ram an explosives-laden vehicle into a security forces checkpost in the district. However, “their…
