Terrorist attack on Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police centre kills seven officers

In yet another skirmish along the Pakistan-Afghan border, seven policemen and six terrorists were killed in a police training centre in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province late on Friday.

This is the second such terrorist attack in Pakistan in a week. Police said on Saturday that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had initially claimed responsibility for the attack at the police training centre in KP’s Dera Ismail Khan, saying that a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle in the facility.

However, TTP later retracted their statement. Yaqoob Khan, a DI Khan police spokesman, told Arab News that the facility’s wall collapsed due to the impact of the blast, killing two policemen, and was followed by a fierce gun battle between personnel and terrorists.

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“A total of seven policemen were martyred and 13 others injured. All 200 trainees and staff at the training center were safely evacuated,” he said.

Kabul attack

Meanwhile, Kabul on Friday was reportedly  rocked by two powerful explosions and subsequent automatic gunfire amid tension on the Afghan-Pakistan border. According to information obtained by CNN-News18, multiple witnesses reported the sound of a fighter jet over the city’s airspace.

Top intelligence sources told CNN News18 that the incident appeared to be a targeted aerial strike aimed at Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Noor Wali Mehsud, operating from a TTP and al-Qaeda safehouse in eastern Kabul. The sources went on to confirm that the strike successfully targeted the compound.

Voice messages accessed by the news outlet suggested that Noor Wali Mehsud is safe and in Pakistan. However, CNN-News18 has learnt that his son was killed in the attack. The sources revealed that the act that the target was a high-value Pakistani militant, which suggests a covert, cross-border operation.

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Pak kills 30 terrorists

The Pakistani Army has said that its security forces have killed 30 terrorists involved in the attack on a military convoy near the Afghan border in Orakzai district on October 7.

The terrorists belonged to the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a group that seeks to overthrow the government in Islamabad and replace it with a strict Islamic-led system of governance. TTP has already claimed responsibility for the Orakzai attack.

Pakistan claims that the TTP uses Afghanistan to train its members and plot attacks against the country, a charge that Kabul has denied.