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The 2023 Karachi Police Station Attack occurred on 17 February 2023, when Islamist insurgents stormed the heavily guarded Karachi Police Office (KPO) located at the heart of the provincial metropolis of Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The attackers used guns and grenades to kill four people (two policemen, a ranger, and a civilian) and injured 14 others.
The Sindh Police (Urdu: سندھ پولیس, Sindhi: سنڌ پوليس), is a law enforcement agency established in 1843 under a proclamation issued by Sir Charles James Napier, who became the conqueror of the State of Sindh by defeating the forces of the Talpur rulers at the Battle of Miani near Hyderabad on 20 March 1843.
20 January – A bomb blast derailed a passenger train in Peshi, Kachhi District, Balochistan, injuring eight people. [10] 30 January – 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing. 31 January – A police station in Mianwali, Punjab, came under a gun attack by a group of militants. Police said that the attack was repulsed.
On 8 June 2014, 10 militants armed with automatic weapons, a rocket launcher, suicide vests, and grenades attacked Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, Pakistan. 36 people were killed, including all 10 attackers, and 18 others were wounded. [2] The militant organisation Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) initially claimed responsibility for ...
Parent agency. Police Service of Pakistan. The Counter Terrorism Department (Urdu: سررشتہِ تحقیقاتِ جرائم ، پاکستان; CTD) formerly known as the Crime Investigation Department (CID), are crime scene investigation, interrogation, anti-terrorism, and intelligence bureaus of the provincial police services of Pakistan. [1]
PNS Mehran attack. The PNS Mehran attack[3][4][5] was an attack/shooting by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda which took place on 22 May 2011, at PNS Mehran, the headquarters of the Pakistan Navy 's Naval Air Arm and the most populous Pakistani military installation, located near the PAF 's Faisal Air Force Base of Karachi, Sindh.
Succeeded by. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (merged into the group in August 2020 as a faction.) Jamaat-ul-Ahrar ( Arabic: جماعة الأحرار, romanized : Jamā‘at ul-Āḥrār, "Assembly of the Free," abbreviated as JuA[ 11]) was a terrorist organization that split away from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in August 2014. [ 12]
July and August 2011 Karachi targeted killings. June 2013 Karachi bombing. March 2013 Karachi bombing. February 2010 Karachi bombings. 2015 Karachi bus shooting. 2023 Karachi police station attack. Chaudhry Aslam Khan.