Five victims have tragically lost their lives while over 8 have been injured following a frenzied stabbing attack by an armed lone assailant at a bustling Bondi Junction Westfield mall filled with Saturday shoppers in Sydney .

According to New South Wales Police, emergency calls from within Bondi Junction Westfield mall prompted the swift response of a lone police officer, who heroically confronted and fatally shot the attacker, potentially saving numerous lives.

Eight individuals have been hospitalized with knife wounds, including a baby, as a result of the vicious assault.

The heroic actions of a senior police officer, who was in the vicinity and swiftly intervened upon receiving emergency calls, have been credited with preventing further casualties. She courageously engaged the assailant and neutralized the threat when he brandished the knife.

Authorities have yet to ascertain the identity of the perpetrator, and there is no indication at this stage of any political or religious motives behind the attack. As per the video footage, an assailant wearing shorts and kangaroo jersey ran inside the mall with knife in hand.

Australian Prime Minister condemned the heinous act, expressing solidarity with the affected individuals and their families. He conveyed gratitude to the first responders and medical personnel attending to the injured.

In a show of support, New Zealand MP from Remutaka, Chris Hipkins, extended condolences to the victims’ families and emphasized the sizable Kiwi population residing in the area. He conveyed heartfelt sentiments to all affected by the tragedy, acknowledging the shared grief across the Tasman Sea.

Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh, in collaboration with the ‘Sindh Sajagi Forum,’ convened a protest camp in support of the liberation of missing Sindhi laborers.

According to the Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh (VMPS), the protest camp was established on Wednesday night and persisted until Thursday noon.

VMPS conveyed, “On behalf of Voice for Missing Persons of Sindh and Sindh Sajagi Forum, a protest camp was set up for the freedom of all missing Sindhi workers from last night Eid night till noon today.”

Criticizing what they perceive as the Sindh government’s incompetence, demonstrators expressed their frustration regarding the inability to locate and rescue Kumari, abducted from Sukkur just days ago.Displaying placards, protestors vehemently condemned what they deemed the routine abduction of innocent Hindu girls in Sindh and highlighted the worsening security conditions for religious minorities.

Notably, the brutal assassination of Sindhi nationalist Hidayat Lohar by the Pakistan Army and the year-long case of missing girl child Priya Kumari have sparked a wave of unrest in Sindh. A series of protests have ensued in both cases with similar outcomes of atrocious handling and no resolution.

These incidents have once again underscored that the only means of survival in Sindh is through silence and ignorance in the face of persecution. Any dissenting voice is met with extra-judicial force.

In a targeted attack on April 9th, ISKP (Islamic State Khorasan Province) terrorists detonated an IED in the Murad Beg Qalaa area, north of Kabul, Afghanistan. The explosion destroyed an oil tanker and set others ablaze within a Taliban convoy.

The attack came just day before the Eid festival. Conspicuously, Islamic State and Afghan Taliban have come to loggerheads as ISKP (Khorasan Province) accuses Taliban of apostacy and deviating for the path of jihad. Recently, finding an ISKP attack imminent, Taliban went on high alert. It even erected a wall around a Kabul Mosque to prevent the potential ISKP attack on it targetting Taliban leader Hazibullah Akhundzada, who was supposed to offer prayers in the mosque.

The friction between both the terror organisation is at the all-time-high. Last month, the Islamic State-Khorasan Province targeted the Kabul bank branch in Kandahar in a suicide bombing that killed 43 and left 45 injured.

The Bahawalnagar police station in Pakistan’s Punjab witnessed a distressing scene as reports surfaced of a brazen intrusion by 35 to 40 armed personnel from the Pakistan Army. The shocking incident unfolded when the armed soldiers forcibly entered the station, leaving a trail of chaos and violence in their wake.

According to reports, the soldiers, arriving in a convoy of seven to eight vehicles, stormed into the A Division police station. Once inside, they unleashed a wave of aggression, subjecting officers and personnel to degrading treatment and physical assault.

SHO Rizwan Abbas bore the brunt of the attack, facing severe violence at the hands of the intruding Pakistan Army. Additionally, other police officers and personnel were not spared, as they were met with blows from rifle butts and sticks.

Disturbing footage capturing the soldiers’ reprehensible actions circulated widely on social media, drawing widespread condemnation and outrage.

Following the assault, the army personnel proceeded to vandalize government CCTV equipment and confiscated the DVR before departing from the scene to dodge the tracing.

After Bahawalnagar, Pak Army storms into hospital

In a subsequent turn of events, the soldiers converged at the District Headquarters Hospital, where they targeted police service center personnel, assaulting them and forcibly taking Dr. Sajid into their custody.

The harrowing incident stemmed from a police raid on the residence of an individual associated with a sensitive agency. The police had, in fact, acted on information suggesting the presence of criminals at the location, prompting the raid that ultimately led to the escalation of tensions between law enforcement and military personnel.

After the visuals of the Bahawalnagar incident went viral, the reaction of Pakistanis flooded the social media. While some condemned the act, majority of people are calling it the ‘Karma.’ People are emphasising how Pakistan Police and Army crushed the civili liberties of common people and that this was bound to happen one day or the another.