Four people, including two policemen, were killed in an attack on a security post in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday while four rockets were fired into Peshawar, officials said. According to a senior security official, unidentified attackers sprayed bullets at a police post in Bannu. In a separate attack on Tuesday, one person was injured when four rockets were fired into Peshawar, one striking a police headquarters and another landing near the provincial governorâs house. âFour rockets hit Peshawar and once civilian was slightly wounded. There are no other casualties,â Peshawar city police chief Tanveerul Haq said.
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It was not known if the attacks were a backlash to an offensive mounted by Pakistani forces against up to 500 Al Qaeda-linked militants in semi-autonomous tribal zones along the countryâs northwest border with Afghanistan.
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