Ziaullah Langove urges PDM to cancel public meeting in Quetta owing to security reasons
By Web Deskupdated : 1 month ago
QUETTA: 24, OCTOBER, 2020: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove has urged the Pakistan Democratic Movement to cancel public meeting in Quetta owing to extreme security concerns.
While addressing a press conference in Quetta, the minister Ziaullah Langove said that holding protest rallies is democratic right of opposition parties but they should refrain from holding public meeting in the city due to fears of terrorism.
Ziaullah Langove added that, CTD and intelligence agencies were informed that Abdul Karim Kurd, a key commander of the banned organization, was present in the Dasht area near Quetta with his accomplices and planning to conduct terrorist activities in the province.
The law enforcement agencies carried out an operation on tip-off about the terrorists in Dasht area during which the terrorists opened fire on them. In retaliatory fire, Abdul Karim Kurd and three other terrorists were killed while two suicide jackets, one kalashnikov, three pistols and other explosive materials and hand grenades were recovered from the slain terrorists, Langove said.
The minister further said, "Please have mercy on the people of Balochistan due this deplorable law and order situation in the province and cancel your meeting."
Langove also informed that 4,200 police personnel would be on duty for the security of the PDM rally in Quetta while its routes would be closely monitored.
Earlier, on October 22, the security forces on Thursday thwarted a major terrorism bid in Balochistan and confiscated huge caches of explosives used in improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
According to sources, the security forces carried out an intelligence-based operation in Qamaruddin Karez area, in Balochistan and recovered the explosives material including remote detonators, ball bearings, wires, eight bombs weighing 6-8 kilograms and others.
The explosives were possibly brought from Afghanistan.Sources further said that banned outfit of Tehreek-e-Taliban had planned to carry out major terror activity in the province.
The explosive material planned for use in terrorist activities in Zhob and Quetta, sources informed. (04)
Ziaullah Langove urges PDM to cancel public meeting in Quetta owing to security reasons
By Web Deskupdated : 1 month ago
QUETTA: 24, OCTOBER, 2020: Balochistan Home Minister Mir Ziaullah Langove has urged the Pakistan Democratic Movement to cancel public meeting in Quetta owing to extreme security concerns.
While addressing a press conference in Quetta, the minister Ziaullah Langove said that holding protest rallies is democratic right of opposition parties but they should refrain from holding public meeting in the city due to fears of terrorism.
Ziaullah Langove added that, CTD and intelligence agencies were informed that Abdul Karim Kurd, a key commander of the banned organization, was present in the Dasht area near Quetta with his accomplices and planning to conduct terrorist activities in the province.
The law enforcement agencies carried out an operation on tip-off about the terrorists in Dasht area during which the terrorists opened fire on them. In retaliatory fire, Abdul Karim Kurd and three other terrorists were killed while two suicide jackets, one kalashnikov, three pistols and other explosive materials and hand grenades were recovered from the slain terrorists, Langove said.
The minister further said, "Please have mercy on the people of Balochistan due this deplorable law and order situation in the province and cancel your meeting."
Langove also informed that 4,200 police personnel would be on duty for the security of the PDM rally in Quetta while its routes would be closely monitored.
Earlier, on October 22, the security forces on Thursday thwarted a major terrorism bid in Balochistan and confiscated huge caches of explosives used in improvised explosive devices (IEDs).
According to sources, the security forces carried out an intelligence-based operation in Qamaruddin Karez area, in Balochistan and recovered the explosives material including remote detonators, ball bearings, wires, eight bombs weighing 6-8 kilograms and others.
The explosives were possibly brought from Afghanistan.Sources further said that banned outfit of Tehreek-e-Taliban had planned to carry out major terror activity in the province.
The explosive material planned for use in terrorist activities in Zhob and Quetta, sources informed. (04)
