kaboom!at a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistain, killing one officer and wounding two others, police said.
Local police officer Zahir Shah said the bomb went off at a barricade outside a mud-brick police post on Saturday in the town of Shabqadar, which lies close to the
Mohmand... Named for the Mohmand clan of the Sarban Pahstuns, a truculent, quarrelsome lot. In Pakistain, the Mohmands infest their eponymous Agency, metastasizing as far as the plains of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, Charsadda, and Mardan. Mohmands are also scattered throughout Pakistan in urban areas including Karachi, Lahore, and Quetta. In Afghanistan they are mainly found in Nangarhar and Kunar...
tribal region.
The area is a hotbed for Death Eaters fighting the government, and has witnessed many such attacks in recent years.
In May, a pair of jacket wallahs targeted recruits as they were leaving the main paramilitary training centre of Shabqadar, killing 80 people. The Pak branch of the Taliban myrmidon organization grabbed credit.