Peshawar blast close to a police car; no injuries were recorded
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In the vicinity of a police car within the boundaries of Badaber Police Station in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, an explosion occurred, according to police reports on Sunday.
No recorded casualties, according to the police. They said that Nasir Khan, the commander of the Sheikhan outpost, was on patrol when an IED detonated next his vehicle.
The explosives were put inside a can, and the authorities claim that a remote control device was used to trigger the explosion.
Following the event, the police gathered evidence from the crime site. Additionally, a bomb disposal team was dispatched to the scene of the incident.
According to the bomb disposal squad, the explosion that destroyed the car employed around one kilogramme of explosive material.
Law and order situation
In the latter few months of 2022, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had a decline in peace and order as a result of an uptick in threats and assaults against security personnel and prominent political figures.
The police were on high alert throughout the province, according to a story in The News, following the recent uptick in assaults in places like Peshawar, the southern districts, and the Mardan region.
According to a source cited by the magazine, top politicians have also reported getting threats in addition to the police. They have also experienced grenade attacks on their homes.
Aimal Wali Khan, the provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP), received a call on December 11 informing him of a plan to assassinate him, according to Samar Bilour, the party's spokeswoman in the province.
Samar stated that it is the state's duty to ensure the safety of their leaders, and that if the state does not take action, they will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
Similar worries had been expressed by the ANP leader a few days prior in a statement, in which he cautioned the state, the administration, and "terrorist sympathisers" that Aimal Wali is the political heir apparent to Wali Bagh and not to take offence if he were to suffer injury.
In addition to Aimal Wali Khan, Sardar Hussain Babak and other people have received threats, and the home of MPA Faisal Zeb has seen two recent attacks, according to Bilour.
In addition to the attack on ANP MPA Faisal Zeb's home in Shangla, a grenade was thrown at party senator Hidayatullah's home in Peshawar last year.
In the previous 15 years, hundreds of ANP employees have perished in attacks across KP, including some of its top officials, like as senior minister Bashir Bilour. Asfadnyar Wali Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, and many others, including the central president, narrowly averted assaults in the past.
Attacks on politicians
The latest spate of violence has either resulted in attacks on or threats against politicians connected to rival political parties.
An official reported that "during the night between Saturday and Sunday, a grenade was launched at the apartment of former provincial minister Haji Muhammad Javed in Gulbahar Peshawar but did not create any fatalities or damage to property."
Former federal minister Shehryar Afridi's home in Kohat was assaulted with a hand grenade, while PTI MPA Aghaz Khan Gandapur's home in Dera Ismail Khan was attacked by armed men at one point, killing one police officer.
In an attack on his car in Lower Dir in August, PTI MPA Malik Liaqat was also injured, and four other people, including his brother and nephew, perished.
In recent months, extortion calls have been made to businesspeople and political figures. Almost all of these instances went unreported to the police.
Terror incidents
According to the research, the province has seen an increase in recent months in the number of terrorist assualts. From the middle of August to the final week of November, at least 118 terrorist attacks were recorded in KP, according to government statistics.
In terror attacks across the KP, at least 26 police officers, 12 members of other law enforcement organisations, and 17 civilians were murdered. In addition, these assaults injured 37 members of law enforcement organisations, 10 civilians, and 18 police officers.
In November, there were assaults in a dozen different districts, including Peshawar, Mardan, Bajaur, Mohmand, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Kohat, Bannu, and Nowshera.
Meanwhile, KP Police claims to have stepped up operations against terrorists, claiming that during the first quarter of this year, at least 539 accused terrorists and declared criminals were detained in the province.They also stated that 141 other people were killed, including 42 of those carrying head money.
Annual report
With 310 assaults in 2017 and newly combined districts that were formerly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen ongoing terror strikes (Fata).
Over 62% of assaults specifically targeted KP, according to the yearly study published by the Centre for Research & Security Studies (CRSS).
With nearly 1,000 casualties, of which 625 were deaths and the remainder wounded, KP (including the old Fata) once again tops the list.
285 personnel of the security forces died, notably 42 only in December. The majority of the assaults took place in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan and involved the use of improvised explosive devices in ambushes, suicide strikes, and raids on security stations.
KP and the former Fata together saw 226 higher fatalities in 2022 as compared to 2021.
In the vicinity of a police car within the boundaries of Badaber Police Station in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, an explosion occurred, according to police reports on Sunday.
No recorded casualties, according to the police. They said that Nasir Khan, the commander of the Sheikhan outpost, was on patrol when an IED detonated next his vehicle.
The explosives were put inside a can, and the authorities claim that a remote control device was used to trigger the explosion.
Following the event, the police gathered evidence from the crime site. Additionally, a bomb disposal team was dispatched to the scene of the incident.
According to the bomb disposal squad, the explosion that destroyed the car employed around one kilogramme of explosive material.
Law and order situation
In the latter few months of 2022, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa had a decline in peace and order as a result of an uptick in threats and assaults against security personnel and prominent political figures.
The police were on high alert throughout the province, according to a story in The News, following the recent uptick in assaults in places like Peshawar, the southern districts, and the Mardan region.
According to a source cited by the magazine, top politicians have also reported getting threats in addition to the police. They have also experienced grenade attacks on their homes.
Aimal Wali Khan, the provincial president of the Awami National Party (ANP), received a call on December 11 informing him of a plan to assassinate him, according to Samar Bilour, the party’s spokeswoman in the province.
Samar stated that it is the state’s duty to ensure the safety of their leaders, and that if the state does not take action, they will have no choice but to take matters into their own hands.
Similar worries had been expressed by the ANP leader a few days prior in a statement, in which he cautioned the state, the administration, and “terrorist sympathisers” that Aimal Wali is the political heir apparent to Wali Bagh and not to take offence if he were to suffer injury.
In addition to Aimal Wali Khan, Sardar Hussain Babak and other people have received threats, and the home of MPA Faisal Zeb has seen two recent attacks, according to Bilour.
In addition to the attack on ANP MPA Faisal Zeb’s home in Shangla, a grenade was thrown at party senator Hidayatullah’s home in Peshawar last year.
In the previous 15 years, hundreds of ANP employees have perished in attacks across KP, including some of its top officials, like as senior minister Bashir Bilour. Asfadnyar Wali Khan, Ghulam Ahmad Bilour, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, and many others, including the central president, narrowly averted assaults in the past.
Attacks on politicians
The latest spate of violence has either resulted in attacks on or threats against politicians connected to rival political parties.
An official reported that “during the night between Saturday and Sunday, a grenade was launched at the apartment of former provincial minister Haji Muhammad Javed in Gulbahar Peshawar but did not create any fatalities or damage to property.”
Former federal minister Shehryar Afridi’s home in Kohat was assaulted with a hand grenade, while PTI MPA Aghaz Khan Gandapur’s home in Dera Ismail Khan was attacked by armed men at one point, killing one police officer.
In an attack on his car in Lower Dir in August, PTI MPA Malik Liaqat was also injured, and four other people, including his brother and nephew, perished.
In recent months, extortion calls have been made to businesspeople and political figures. Almost all of these instances went unreported to the police.
Terror incidents
According to the research, the province has seen an increase in recent months in the number of terrorist assualts. From the middle of August to the final week of November, at least 118 terrorist attacks were recorded in KP, according to government statistics.
In terror attacks across the KP, at least 26 police officers, 12 members of other law enforcement organisations, and 17 civilians were murdered. In addition, these assaults injured 37 members of law enforcement organisations, 10 civilians, and 18 police officers.
In November, there were assaults in a dozen different districts, including Peshawar, Mardan, Bajaur, Mohmand, Dera Ismail Khan, Tank, Kohat, Bannu, and Nowshera.
Meanwhile, KP Police claims to have stepped up operations against terrorists, claiming that during the first quarter of this year, at least 539 accused terrorists and declared criminals were detained in the province.They also stated that 141 other people were killed, including 42 of those carrying head money.
Annual report
With 310 assaults in 2017 and newly combined districts that were formerly in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has seen ongoing terror strikes (Fata).
Over 62% of assaults specifically targeted KP, according to the yearly study published by the Centre for Research & Security Studies (CRSS).
With nearly 1,000 casualties, of which 625 were deaths and the remainder wounded, KP (including the old Fata) once again tops the list.
285 personnel of the security forces died, notably 42 only in December. The majority of the assaults took place in the border regions between Afghanistan and Pakistan and involved the use of improvised explosive devices in ambushes, suicide strikes, and raids on security stations.
KP and the former Fata together saw 226 higher fatalities in 2022 as compared to 2021.
