Six employees of a private mining company were abducted by unidentified armed men in the Shaban Dilwani Mari area of Zarghoon Ghar on Wednesday as the security forces launched an operation to trace the kidnappers and recover the victims.
Officials said the workers were carrying out routine duties at the mining site when armed assailants arrived, held them at gunpoint, and forced them into an unknown location before fleeing the scene.
Security personnel responded immediately after receiving reports of the incident. The area was secured and a search operation was initiated across the surrounding mountainous terrain to locate the abducted workers and pursue those involved.
The missing workers have been identified as Jalat Khan, Muhammad Hashim, Kamal Khan, Jahangir Khan, Muhammad Azeem and Rozay Khan. According to police sources, all six belong to the Pashtun community and are members of the Dummar tribe.
Woman killed in drone strike
PESHAWAR: A woman was killed while six others were injured in a suspected drone strike in Pakistan's northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The incident occurred on Tuesday in Hassan Khel subdivision, 20 km southwest of Peshawar.
All the injured belonged to the same family and were immediately taken to the hospital after the incident. In April, a suspected drone strike had caused minor damage to a mosque, also located in Hassan Khel subdivision. However, no casualties were reported in that incident.
Pak court sentences two TTP members to 5 years in prison
A Pakistani court has sentenced two members of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to five-year rigorous imprisonment each for possessing explosive material, an official said on Wednesday.
The Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) of Lahore Judge Malik Abid Hussain announced the verdict on Tuesday.
The Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of the Punjab Police arrested TTP activists, Abdul Baais and Kaleemullah, last year during raids at their residences in the city.
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