Terrorist’s targeted a security forces vehicle in Peshawar of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
PESHWAR _- At least eight people were injured in a blast near a Frontier Crops (FC) vehicle on Warsak Road in the provincial capital on Monday,
Rescue 1122, police and the Bomb Disposal Squad rushed to the crime scene. The injured were transported to the Lady Reading Hospital for treatment.
The SP concerned said the nature of the blast is being determined. Security forces and police cordoned off the area and launched detailed investigation.
The explosion, according to the spokesperson of Rescue 1122, has left nine FC personnel and three civilians injured.
The spokesperson added that the injured security personnel were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH). Meanwhile, some of the injured of the blast were brought to the Lady Reading Hospital, the hospital’s administration confirmed.
Earlier, the Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Syed Ashfaq Anwar said the explosion did not appear to be a suicide bombing at the initial stage. He said there is a possibility of explosives being planted along the roadside.
The Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) and the Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) teams were gathering forensic evidence from the attack site, the CCPO said.
The latest incident comes a day after seven terrorists were killed while another six got critically injured during an intense exchange of fire between the militants and the security personnel in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Chitral district, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement.
According to the military’s media wing, the shooting took place in the general area of Ursoon in Chitral district on Saturday.
The army troops effectively engaged terrorists’ location and resultantly, “seven terrorists were killed while another six were critically injured,” read the statement.
Pakistan has been grappling with terrorism for the past several months. A report compiled by the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) stated a sharp increase in militant attacks across Pakistan in the month of August with 99 terror incidents reported, which resulted in 112 deaths and 87 injuries, mostly targeting security forces personnel and civilians.
The country’s civil and military leadership have resolved to continue their fight against terrorism, as both the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Asim Munir and Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar have vowed not to surrender before terrorists.
The COAS said that the nation cannot be “coerced” by “cowardly tactics of the terrorists” who hold the “misbelief that they can challenge the iron resolve of the soldiers and writ of the state”.
“The army, law enforcement agencies and the nation can never be coerced by the cowardly tactics of the terrorists, who have a misbelief that they can challenge the iron resolve of the soldiers and writ of the state,” Gen Munir had said earlier this month.
The premier, too, resolved to not surrender before radicalisation, extremism and intolerance under any circumstances while praising the Pakistan Army’s sacrifices to protect the nation.
PM Kakar, during his visit to Karachi, said acts of terrorism cannot weaken Pakistan’s resolve in the fight against terrorism.
