While the police and Frontier Corps
...a provincial paramilitary force. Total manpower is about 80,000. They are tasked to help local law enforcement in the maintenance of law and order, and to carry out border patrol and a..the Antwerp-based Salafist organization that had campaigned to introduce Sharia law to Belgium before single-handedly making Belgium the highest per capita supplier of jihadis to Syria in Europe. There was a big trial in Antwerp in 2015, but most of those convicted were in absentia...nti-smuggling operations....
(FC) personnel responded with counteraction, the attacker managed to flee. There were, fortunately, no casualties reported in the terror attack.
This assault on law enforcement adds to the ongoing security issues in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, which has been witnessing numerous bad boy attacks in July alone.
Geo News, on July 21, reported at least four terror attacks in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in just 48 hours, including one in the capital city of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...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...
, where authorities were successful in foiling it.
A policeman, on July 20, was martyred, and 10 others were maimed after a terrorist went
kaboom!when the police intercepted him and his accomplice while entering the Bara tehsil compound — which houses the Bara Police Station, government offices, and a cell of the counter-terrorism department (CTD).
The province has seen a surge in terrorist attacks — from improvised bomb blasts to suicide kabooms — since late last year when the Tehrik-e-Taliban
...mindless ferocity in a turban...(TTP) ended its ceasefire with Islamabad.
In light of the rising militancy, Pakistain's government has warned Afghanistan against providing safe havens to the banned TTP — a terrorist organization targeting security forces.
The top brass of the Pakistain Army has recently said that sanctuaries and liberty of action available to
Pakistain has witnessed a surge in terrorist attacks following Afghan Taliban's return to power in August 2021 and called upon the interim rulers to take decisive actions against terrorists, including the TTP, responsible for cross-border attacks.
Terror activities in the country have soared by 79% during the first half of 2023, a statistical report released by the independent think tank Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) showed.
KP interim Information Minister Feroz Jamal said on Geo News' morning show the police are equipped to deal with the rising terrorist activities but also noted that the Afghan government's actions could help curb militancy.
"If there is peace in Afghanistan, there will be peace in Pakistain. Anyone involved in cross-border terrorism should be dealt with [in Afghanistan]," the information minister said.