[Dawn] Police foiled a sabotage bid by defusing a five-kilogram bomb at Sheikhan area on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
on Tuesday.
According to AIG Shafqat Malik, the head of Bomb Disposal Unit, the bomb was planted near the body of a youth to trap police. He said that it was planted to kill the coppers if they tried to shift the body but beturbanned goons failed to do so as the bomb was defused very carefully.
Mr Malik said that the bomb was planted near a flour mill in Sheikhan area. Another official said that about five bombs had been defused in the same area during the past about two weeks. An official of the Bomb Disposal Unit was killed on Sept 28 when he was defusing a bomb in the area.
He said that in the past beturbanned goons had used bodies for trapping police and detonated the bombs whenever coppers arrived on the spot. He said the body was yet to be identified.