Pakistan: Terrorist Activities Continue Unabated in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

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Updated: July 22, 2023 10:39 AM IS

Peshawar (Pakistan), July 22 (ANI): Three people were injured in a fourth attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in less than 48 hours on Friday in Mamond tehsil of Bajaur district, according to Dawn.
After Friday prayers, around 2:00 pm, an improvised explosive device (IED) that had been set up along a road in the Gillay neighborhood of Mamond tehsil reportedly detonated. According to Dawn, the attack caused damage to a car.
The three injured, identified as Toor Khan, Abdul Aziz and Ilyas Khan, were taken to the district headquarters hospital in Khar for treatment.
District police officer Nazeer Khan told Dawn that the injured people were leaving after offering Friday prayers when the attack occurred.
A team of police officers, including the Bomb Disposal Unit, arrived at the scene and cordoned off the area. A search operation was launched after the explosion to locate other explosives, Dawn reported.
Police said they have launched an investigation into the explosion to determine its causes. No organization claimed responsibility for the explosion.
Earlier, an attack on a police post near the provincial capital, Peshawar, was thwarted on Thursday night.
The attack in the Sarband area, south of the provincial capital, against the police post was thwarted after staff noticed the movement of the militants, according to local police.
About 25 to 30 terrorists started moving towards the police post around 12:15 am between Thursday and Friday. Noticing movement, police opened fire on the militants, Dawn reported.
The exchange of fire lasted around 40 to 45 minutes, forcing the terrorists to flee.

“The armed people were approaching the Riaz Shaheed police post. The policemen pre-emptively fired at the militants to prevent any attack,” Cantt Superintendent Waqas Rafiq told Dawn.
A locally made IED also went off in the Khazana area on the outskirts of Peshawar on Friday, according to SHO Khazana Aizaz. He added that the IED, which weighed about 250 g, was placed in a nullah but the explosion did not cause any damage.
The police have sent a request to the Anti-Terrorism Department to register a case for the attack.
Police posts and stations in the Sarband area have been attacked several times in recent months.
Three police officers and a civilian died after two suicide bombers exploded in Bara on Thursday, hours after two policemen were killed in a shootout at their post in Peshawar, The Tribune reported.
According to the police, the terrorists wearing police uniforms drove to the Tehsil office complex in Bara, in the Khyber district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and entered the premises by cutting through a barbed wire fence.
At least two police officers were killed and two others wounded on Thursday when militants opened fire at a checkpoint in Peshawar, The Tribune reported.
According to authorities, policemen had set up a checkpoint in the Regi Model Town area of ​​the provincial capital when unidentified gunmen opened fire on police personnel, seriously injuring four of them, reported El Tribuno.
Meanwhile, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed concern about the “deterioration of law and order” in KP.
In a Twitter post on Friday, the commission said five police officers had been killed in terrorist ambushes in three days.
“The human cost of terrorism must not be ignored: Police officers killed in the line of duty have left bereaved families with questionable means of livelihood,” the HRCP wrote on Twitter. (ANI)