Police said that unidentified gun-hung tough guys had planted a bomb outside the residence of Inspector Khaista Mir that exploded through a remote control device.
Bakht Zamir, a brother of the dear departed, told Daudzai police that his family had no enmity. He said that the bomb went off when his brother opened the main gate of the house to go to a local mosque for morning prayers.
He said that his brother was targeted by unidentified persons through a planted device, fixed outside his home in Takhtabad area on Charsadda Road.
An official of the Bomb Disposal Unit, when contacted, said that the bomb weighing about one kilogram was packed in a plastic cover and planted near the main gate of the house of the inspector. The blast also damaged a wall of the house.
In Charsadda, a religious scholar was rubbed out by unidentified persons in Shabqadar tehsil on Saturday.
Police said that the attackers opened firing on Qari Hafiz Yousaf Shah when he was going home from a mosque in Matta Mughalkhel area of Shabqadar. He was struck down in his prime.
The victim was a known religious scholar and teacher at Jamia Muhammadia, a seminary in Matta Mughalkhel.
Hafiz Yousaf Shah's brother Faizul Bari lodged a report with the Shabqadar cop shoppe against unidentified attackers.
The people of Shabqadar expressed anguish over the killing of the religious scholar and termed it a tragedy. They demanded of the police to immediately arrest his killers.
On Friday, a resident of
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Agency, Wali Mohammad, was rubbed out by unidentified persons in a mosque in Tangi area of Charsadda.
Later, Mohmand Taliban grabbed credit for killing Wali Mohammad and said that he was a supporter of the local peace committee.
In Mohmand Agency, unidentified faceless myrmidons blew up two primary schools for girls in Safi tehsil on the night between Friday and Saturday.
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Officials said that wife of Abdullah was also injured in one of the blasts. She was shifted to Peshawar.
Militants have so far destroyed 93 schools in Mohmand tribal region.
The political administration launched a search operation in the area to arrest the saboteurs. The administration also placed in long-term storage 10 rustics under the collective responsibility clause of Frontier Crime Regulation.
Meanwhile,
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Mohmand Taliban front man Ihsanullah Ihsan talked to local journalists by telephone and grabbed credit for targeting the two schools.In Swabi, unidentified faceless myrmidons targeted the house of Rohal Amin, an official of a non-governmental organization, by planting a bomb that went
kaboom!before dawn on Saturday.
Mr Amin is president of Samajee Behbood Rabita Council (SBRC), an NGO consisting of 16 community based organizations.
The SBRC has been working in the district for the last three decades.
Mr Amin is also district chairman of citizen community boards and provincial general secretary of Rahnama.
"I was enjoying a sound sleep when the bomb planted near the gate of our house went
kaboom!. I saw that the gate was shattered and the house and our adjacent hujra were damaged badly," he told Dawn.
Police reached the scene soon after the blast. They inspected the house and collected evidence.
Police said that an FIR was registered at City cop shoppe against unidentified krazed killers. It was the first incident of its kind in the district.