[Dawn] A suicide kaboom on Thursday killed a senior Pak police officer and maimed his bodyguard in the northwestern city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, troubled by a new wave of violence, police said."Police Superintendent Kalam Khan died in the blast and his driver and a guard were maimed," police officer Tahir Ayub said.
"The bomber came on foot and detonated explosives strapped to his body near Khan's jeep," bomb disposal squad chief Hukum Khan said.
"We have found the bomber's head," he added.
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The incident took place on a road under construction in Peshawar's Pishta Khara neighbourhood that meant Khan's car had to drive slowly, police said.
Khan had been on his way to work in the suburban town of Badaber, where a suicide attack killed 15 people at a funeral on Sunday.
It lies close to Bara town, a stronghold of local warlord Mangal Bagh
...a former bus driver, now head of the Deobandi bandido group Lashkar-e-Islam and the Terror of Khyber Agency...
, who is linked to Islamist thugs.