Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Kachhi, Mehmood Notezai, said that the preliminary evidence suggests it was a suicide attack, however, the exact nature of the blast could be ascertained after the investigations.
For decades, Pakistan has allowed some terrorist groups to operate freely while cracking down on others. Terrorism and foreign sanctions resulting from terrorist financing have made it difficult for Pakistan to attract investment.
TTP terrorists stormed the Karachi Police Chief's office on February 17, resulting in a hours-long combat between terrorists and various law enforcement agencies which claimed lives of four people.
Despite an increase in militant attacks last month, the resultant deaths declined compared to January. Militants carried out 58 terrorist attacks during the past month in which 62 people were killed including 27 civilians, 18 security forces personnel and 17 militants.
Any confrontation on the Af-Pak border that has already witnessed skirmishes would surely mean bigger tensions and frequent closure of access to a landlocked Afghanistan.
Gilgit-Baltistan Awami Action Committee demanded the end of load shedding, the revival of subsidies on flour, reversing the proposal of the revenue act and an end to land grab in the Pakistan-Occupied Gilgit Baltistan (PoGB) by the Pakistan army and government.
According to the 2021 Country Reports on Terrorism, the TTP uses the tribal belt along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border to train and deploy its operatives.
Major terrorist groups that focused on conducting attacks in Pakistan included Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), and ISIS-K.
Pakistan has recently tightened security measures and controls at the border crossings with Afghanistan since TTP has increased terror attacks within Pakistan.