Security developments in Pakistan

Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0730 GMT on Saturday: Lower Dir - Security forces killed 16 militants in Lower Dir on Friday, paramilitary officials said of the northwestern district where troops have been battling insurgents for nearly three months.

Following are security developments in Pakistan at 0730 GMT on Saturday:

HT Image

Lower Dir

- Security forces killed 16 militants in Lower Dir on Friday, paramilitary officials said of the northwestern district where troops have been battling insurgents for nearly three months.

Quetta - Security agencies killed a suspected terrorist and arrested seven, including an Arab national, during a raid on a house in the southwestern Quetta city on Saturday, intelligence officials said. Suicide jackets, arms and explosives were also seized.

Miranshah - Two Pakistani helicopter gunships on Saturday fired at a suspected house near Miranshah, the main town of North Waziristan tribal region on the Afghan border, killing a woman and wounding three, witnesses said.

Miranshah - Pakistani Taliban shot dead an Afghan refugee in a village south of Miranshah, accusing him of being a US spy and dumped his body on a roadside with a threat -- anyone spying for the US will meet a similar fate, witnesses and intelligence officials said on Saturday.

Kohat - Seven policemen were wounded while trying to defuse an improvised explosive device planted on a roadside along the Indus Highway in the northwestern region of Kohat on Saturday, security officials said.