He said the attackers killed one Christian in the neighborhood. More than 70 people, mostly lawyers, were killed last month in a suicide bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta. There is as of yet no formal claim of responsibility from any faction on this attack, though officials seem to be claiming the Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
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Rescue personnel at the site of the attack in Pakistan.
Two Frontier Corps soldiers, a police constable and two civilian guards were injured in the exchange of fire with the terrorists, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said.
Army spokesman Asim Saleem Bajwa said the attack was quickly repulsed and that security forces were searching for any accomplices.
Authorities said a suicide bomber attacked the morning crowds outside a district court in Mardan, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. Operation Zarb-e-Azb, the General said, has killed 3500 terrorists since it was launched in 2014.
Also on Friday, a group of militants attacked a Christian neighbourhood, in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial capital of Peshawar. They could not blow the bomb up inside the church because they were stopped outside of the church by the guards. “We will not spare them, they will be wiped out from every corner of the country”, Sharif said. It was not clear if any of the suicide bombers had detonated their explosives.
“Two Taliban suicide bombers attacked a church in Peshawar in 2013, killing almost 100 people in what was Pakistan”s deadliest attack on religious minorities to date.
Christians are a tiny minority in the majority Muslim nation.
In that August 8 attack, a prominent attorney was gunned down and then bombers blew themselves up outside a hospital where dozens of his colleagues had gathered to protest and mourn his death.
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The Pakistan Army was called in to tackle the situation.
