Thursday's attack, which targeted a cop shoppe in Doaba town of Hangu district
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
, left dozens maimed.
Rashid Khan, a senior police official, said the dead included an officer and four passers-by.
Hangu is part of the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province and lies near the troubled tribal regions along the Afghan border where al-Qaeda, Taliban fighters and local rebels have flourished.
No group grabbed credit for the attack, but Taliban fighters have regularly carried out attacks in northwest Pakistain in recent years.
Fighters linked to al-Qaeda and the Taliban have waged a campaign of bomb and
suicide kabooms across Pakistain, mainly in the northwest, after the military launched major operations against their strongholds near the Afghan border in 2008.Quetta attacks
Earlier, suspected tribal fighters fired four short-range rockets in different parts of Quetta, capital of the southwestern Baluchistan province, late on Wednesday, killing four people, including two coppers, and wounding 18 people, police said.
Ethnic Baluch rebels have for decades waged a low-level uprising for greater autonomy and more control over the natural resources of the mineral-rich, but poorest, province of Pakistain.