[Dawn] Mine and kabooms targeting police in northwest Pakistain on Wednesday killed one person and maimed 11, including nine officers, police said.In the first attack a donkey cart went over a mine buried by the roadside on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar, police said.
"Both the donkey cart owner and donkey were killed. Basically the mine was planted to target police," Kalam Khan, a senior police official, told AFP.
In the second incident a remote control bomb hit a police patrol pick-up, injuring 11, in the village of Darsamand, in Hangu district.
... Hangu is famous for its greenery, hills, beauty and water. Most of the people of this area are Bangash & Orakzai Pashtuns. Part of the Bangash are Shia. The Orakzai and the Sunni Bangash are determined to kill them...
"Nine coppers and two passers-by were maimed in this kaboom. Talibs are responsible for this attack," Abdur Rashid Khan, district police chief told AFP by telephone.
Hangu lies 150 kilometres south of Peshawar and has a history of sectarian festivities between Pakistain's majority Sunni Mohammedans and minority Shias.
The area borders the tribal regions of Kurram and Orakzai, where entrenched forces of Evil oppose jobs and education for women.
Militants in Pakistain's northwest often target police and other law enforcement agencies and are engaged in a campaign of violence against security forces in the country.
More than 4,000 have died in suicide and kabooms across Pakistain since 2007.
The bombings have been blamed on terror networks linked to the Taliban and al Qaeda.