FATA
GHALANAI: Security personnel defused three improvised explosive devices in Pandilai and Baizai subdivisions.Two IEDs planted along a dirt track in Toora Bara area in Baizai subdivision near the Pak-Afghan border were safely defused. Sources said that unidentified miscreants had planted the explosives. Dawn, The News
Pakistan
PESHAWAR: Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Engr. Iqbal Zafar Jhagra has said FATA has shown tremendous improvement in anti-polio efforts and appreciated the role of EOC FATA for achieving remarkable success which was not possible without the diligent efforts put into by agency level staff and front line workers. The Frontier Post
KARACHI: Police shot dead four suspected terrorists in an encounter in Sohrab Goth area here in the wee hours. The Frontier Post
GHOTKI: Seven dacoits were killed while eight managed to escape in an encounter at the Mahi Chowk near Sindh-Punjab border, said the DPO Zeeshan Asghar. The News, Dawn
KARACHI: An antiterrorism court sent Muttahida Qaumi Movement`s Karachi mayor-designate Waseem Akhtar, MPA Rauf Siddiqui and Pak Sarzameen Party president Anis Kaimkhani to prison after rejecting their bail pleas in a case relating to treatment of alleged terrorists at former federal minister Dr Asim Hussain`s hospitals. Dawn
