The incident happened in the Shabqadar area of Charsadda, 30 kilometres north of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), 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 Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the capital of the northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
province.
Two men riding a cycle of violence threw a hand grenade on a police vehicle patrolling the area, killing two coppers and wounding another one, district police chief Shafiullah Khan told news agency AFP.
He said one of the coppers was struck down in his prime and the second in hospital.
Another local police official Asghar Khan also confirmed the incident.
Spokesman of the Jamaatul Ahrar faction of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, Ehsanullah Ehsan
...formerly the front man for the Pak Taliban, now the lips and tongue of the Jamaatul Ahrar splinter group in Mohmand Agency...
grabbed credit for the attack in a statement issued to local media in Peshawar.
Pakistain has been battling myrmidon holy warrior groups in the northwest and its semi-autonomous tribal belt since 2004, after its army entered the tribal region to search for Al Qaeda gunnies who had fled across the border following the US-led invasion of Afghanistan.
In June the army began a major offensive against holy warrior hideouts in North
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Wazoo tribal agency, a major base for the TTP, after a bloody raid on Bloody Karachi...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
Airport ended faltering peace talks between the government and the Taliban.