... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
on Tuesday, leaving one policeman dead and three others injured.
According to the police, security personnel had cordoned off the area near a pull in 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.
's Regi Model Town area when an kaboom took place. Subsequently, one policeman was killed whereas another sustained injuries.
Police added that the Bomb Disposal Unit (BDU) personnel defused two bombs worth five kilograms from the site of kaboom.
Meanwhile,
...back at the Esquimeau village the snowball down Jack's back had finally melted......
a huge contingent of police personnel reached the area and a probe into the incident went underway.
Separately, a bomb kaboom took place near a police van, injuring two cops near the Kolachi Tehsil area of Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
The bomb was remotely detonated.
Other sources reported that seven coppers were maimed in the blast on Rohri road and that the Station House Officer (SHO) of Kolachi cop shoppe was among those injured in the blast.
The kaboom comes as the country celebrates Eid Milad-un-Nabi, the birth of Prophet Muhammad (PTUI!) on 12 Rabi-ul-Awwal, and strict security measures have been put in place across the country.
Mobile phone services were suspended in most parts of the country in order to avoid any untoward incident.
Further details of the incident were not available till the filing of this report.
Dera Ismail Khan sits close to the restive South
Wazoo tribal region bifurcated by the semi-autonomous Frontier Region Jandola.Earlier, four bodies of unidentified people were recovered from Aman Gar area near Kabul River, in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Nowshera district.
A policeman of Nowshera Police confirmed that the four people were rubbed out and their bodies have been shifted to a nearby hospital for identification.
In a separate incident in Swabi District, an official of the intelligence agencies, Amjad was rubbed out in Swabi bus stand area where he was on duty.