Officials and residents said three attackers riding a cycle of violence shot up the police post within the remit of Nissata cop shoppe before sunset.
The attack left three on-duty constables injured. They were identified as Imran, Yousaf and Rameez. One attacker was injured in the retaliatory fire by the police but was whisked away by his accomplices. The injured coppers were shifted to the district headquarters hospital and later moved to 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...at death's door, where constable Imran departed this vale of tears.
The area was cordoned off after the attack and a police contingent, led by District Police Officer Sohail Khalid, launched a search operation to arrest the attackers.
Since the talks with the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban
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Pakistain (TTP) broke down in November, the holy warrior group has intensified its attacks, particularly targeting the police in KP and areas bordering Afghanistan.
On Thursday, three persons, including two coppers, were martyred when forces of Evil attacked a check post in Jamrud tehsil of Khyber tribal district.
Khyber DPO Mohammad Imran told journalists that the forces of Evil conducted a three-pronged attack at Takhtabeg check post on Peshawar-Torkham Highway.
Last week, a deputy superintendent of police and two constables were martyred when holy warriors, armed with automatic assault weapons, targeted the Sarband cop shoppe on the outskirts of the province’s capital, Peshawar late at night.
Officials said the holy warriors, equipped with advanced weapons, including thermal weapon sights, carried out a ’coordinated’ attack.
On Jan 10, unknown murderous Moslems attacked the Yarik cop shoppe in Dera Ismail Khan
... the Pearl of Pashtunistan ...
with rifles and missiles. However,
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no loss of life was reported.
In November, the outlawed TTP called off its ceasefire with the government and ordered its murderous Moslems to stage attacks across the country.
button men fled after shooting three officers at the post in Zardad Dahri, which is in the Charsadda district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. He said two of the officers died before reaching the hospital while the third was being treated.
The shooting came two days after a similar attack in Khyber district that killed three coppers and maimed two.
No one claimed responsiblity for Saturday's attack.
The outlawed Pak null-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:gray;' title='Taliban'>Taliban
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bully boy group Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain, or TTP, grabbed credit for the Khyber attack. The group is separate from but allied with Afghanistan’s Taliban.
The TTP restarted attacks in recent months on security forces in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and southwestern Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
provinces, both bordering Afghanistan, after its talks with the government failed.