A police constable and a terrorist were killed in Pakistan on Sunday after a gunman attacked a police checkpost in the Shahbaz Khel area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Lakki Marwat District, a local police official said, according to a report in The Dawn.
In a statement released on Thursday, Anwar said that their team had prevented a number of terror acts and crime incidents in Bannu, Lakki Marwat and North Waziristan districts through proactive policing.
Guterres made these comments in response to a question on rising terrorist attacks in Pakistan, including the recent attack at a police station in Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Taking to Twitter, Midstone Centre for International Affairs (MCIA) senior associate Shemrez Nauman Afzal said, "Note that #TTP spokesman's claim said "Tuesday past week" at the start of the statement. This could imply that the claimed attack took place on Tuesday 13th Dec, and after 5 days
The provincial government claimed no one had attacked the police station. But added that some suspects in custody under suspicion of terrorism tried to snatch weapons from security personnel deployed on-site, the report said.
No group has taken responsibility for the attack so far. But the police suspect the involvement of the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Dawn newspaper reported.
The attack took place when the police personnel, identified as Naib Subedar Qasim and Hawaldar Changez, were conducting a search operation in the Serai Gambila police station area of Wanda Pashan. Two more police personnel -- Lt Bilal and Sepoy Zahoor -- were also injured in the attack and w
The first incident, which was claimed by outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), occurred in the Lakki Marwat's Kurrum Par area when militants opened fire on a police van, killing six personnel. In a separate incident, two soldiers were killed and a militant killed in a clash near the Pak
Six policemen were killed in Wednesday's attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Lakki Marwat, Pakistan's Daily Times reported. The newspaper said that two terrorists on a motorcycle opened fire on their van. According to police, the assailants attacked the police van on Abbasa Road, Wanda Shahab Khe
Islamabad [Pakistan], October 17 (ANI): People in Lakki Marwat District in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province organized a peace rally protesting against the rampant terrorism incidents in the region, media reports said.