...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 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 Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire...on Monday, local officials and police confirmed.
In the first attack, a couple was martyred in a kaboom targeting security forces in Saidgai area of North Waziristan near the Pak-Afghan border.
A Bomb Disposal Unit was carrying out a search operation in the area when a jacket wallah, travelling in a vehicle let 'er rip. While the security officials remained unhurt, a husband and wife sitting on the roadside bit the dust.
"Said Muhammad and his wife Dilbar Jana were sitting on the roadside when the attack took place," local officials said, adding the couple was probably waiting for a passenger van.
Separately, a Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) constable was martyred and a Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam
...the political wing of the Pak Taliban...
-Fazl (JUI-F) activist sustained injuries in two firing incidents in the district.
According to local police, the CTD constable, identified as Taskeenullah, was going to his village when unknown Lions of Islam shot up him in the Tapi area. The attackers managed to flee as the police launched an investigation into the attack.
The injured JUI-F activist was identified as Javed Noor who was in charge of the party’s social media. He was immediately shifted to a hospital.
Meanwhile,
...back at the shootout, bullets
whapped!around Butch as he tried to tie his scarf around his shoulder as a tourniquet......
in Badhber on the outskirts of Peshawar, one police constable was martyred and two sustained injuries in a late-night Death Eater attack.
According to Peshawar police, a police mobile came under attack on Afridi Road within the jurisdiction of Badhber cop shoppe. The three cops, ASI Farid Khan and constables Ghulam Hussain and Yar Muhammad, riding in the van sustained injuries.
"The area was immediately cordoned off and the injured police cops were shifted to the hospital," read a statement issued by the city police. Later, Constable Muhammad departed this vale of tears in the hospital.The funeral prayer of the martyred constable was offered at Peshawar’s police headquarters.