The explosive material blew up on a two-way road near the Umar Farooq intersection in the city, the police said. Two injured are said to be in critical condition.
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
A top US military commander has said the United States is concerned by the threat posed by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to the south Asian country's security amid the surge in violence perpetrated by the outlawed group in the country.
Pakistan is feeling frustrated with the ongoing instability in Afghanistan and may not want to be seen as an 'ally' of the Taliban regime to avoid the burden of stabilising Afghanistan.
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.
Taking to Twitter, Pakistani journalist Roohan Ahmad said that there was an intense gun battle between the security personnel and "militants" in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Bannu area.
While speaking about the cross border terrorism in the assembly session, Awami National Party Parliamentary Leader Mohammad Asghar Khan Achakzai claimed that Pakistan had helped the Taliban in the transition of power after the US military intervened in Afghanistan.
Several civilians and security personnel on both sides have been killed and injured in the recent armed clashes that erupted on December 11 and December 15 at the Chaman-Spin Boldak border crossing.
Under the announcement made by the Taliban after the takeover of Kabul, all Afghan military personnel who served for different security entities of the previous regime were barred from being detained, tortured, or imprisoned.
UN experts are deeply aggrieved about a public execution and that flogging has resumed in Afghanistan and call on the de facto authorities to halt immediately all forms of torturous, cruel and degrading forms of punishments.