[DAWN] A military officer was martyred and 10 other people, including three soldiers, were maimed when a jacket wallah rammed his cycle of violence into a 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....
vehicle at a busy roundabout of Hayatabad locality in 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.
, police and rescue workers said.
The Inter-Service Public Relations (ISPR) identified the officer as Major Jamal Sheran.
In a brief statement, the ISPR said that a suicide bomber riding a cycle of violence hit the FC vehicle which was on a routine patrolling. "Major Jamal Sheran embraced shahdat while four soldiers were maimed," the statement read.
Cantonment Circle Peshawar SP Imran Ahmad Malik told Dawn that the officer was on his way to the paramilitary force’s headquarters located at the Balahisar Fort from the FC complex in Phase-VI area of Hayatabad when the bomber targeted his vehicle.
He said between 10 and 12 kilograms of explosives were used for the blast.