FATA
KHAR: A personnel of Bajaur Levies was shot dead in Laghari area of Mamond tehsil, local administration officials and eyewitnesses said, adding that a coIIeague of the deceased security official also shot and killed the fleeing attacker. Dawn
Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour is believed to have been killed in a drone strike in Balochistan`s Dalbandin district, causing a huge setback to the puritanical militia that was still recovering from the death of its supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar confirmed nearly a year ago. Dawn, The News
WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State John Kerry said that the United States had notified Pakistan`s prime minister and army chief of the strike that targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour. Dawn
KARACHI: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Sunday criticised the drone strike which the US carried out in Balochistan a day earlier and said that a strong protest had been lodged with the US over the attack. Dawn
KARACHI: The police investigation into the targeted killing of two traffic police constables at Ayesha Manzil in Azizabad is focused on the same banned militant outfits that were involved in the killing of six traffic policemen last year. Dawn
KARACHI: Three bullet-riddled bodies were found in a deserted area in the Manghopir police limits
in a ‘jungle area’ off the Northern Bypass near Mohammad Khan Colony, when a woodcutter smelled a stench, said investigation SSP (west zone) Akhtar Farooq. Dawn, The News
RAWALPINDI: Law enforcement agencies have been directed to heighten security around high ranking military officials, media houses and police checkpoints in Islamabad and on I.J. Principal Road, in light of information revealed by a suspected terrorist during interrogation. Dawn
ISLAMABAD: The capital police arrested three suspected outlaws and a proclaimed offender, and recovered hashish, heroin and stolen property from them. Dawn
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police have established an incentive-based Police Information Network (PIN) under which any citizen can win a cash reward up to Rs100,000 for sharing with the force credible information about terrorists and their facilitators. The News
Afghanistan
KABUL: The former Afghan Intelligence, National Directorate of Security (NDS) Chief, Amrullah Saleh, has said the death of Muallah Akhtar Mansoor in Pakistan once again proves the legitimate claims of the Afghan people that the ongoing war is not an ethnic war but is a proxy war imposed on Afghan nation by Pakistan. Khaama
HELMAND: At least eight militants were killed, seven militants were arrested and 19 hostages were also released from the prison belonging to the Taliban militants during an attack on the Taliban prison in Marjah district of southern Helmand province. Khaama
KABUL: The top Taliban leaders have reportedly met in the framework of their leadership council to discuss successor Mullah Akhtar Mansoor who was killed in an airstrike. The leadership council discussed regarding various possible successors, including the notorious guerrilla commander Sirajuddin Haqqani, Taliban sources told Reuters. Khaama
NANGARHAR: At least nine Daesh insurgents, allegedly Pakistani nationals, were killed in a foreign troops drone strike in Karkani area of Achin district of Nangarhar province. Tolo News
