The report suggested that the attacker hid approximately eight kilogrammes of explosives and ball bearings in his suicide jacket.
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He said these cowardly attacks can not shake our unflinching resolve in war against terrorism. “These receding elements are showing frustration by attacking our soft targets”.
Jamaat-ur-Ahrar’s spokesman, Ehsanullah Ehsan, vowed to stage more attacks in a statement sent to Reuters.
Police sources said that Afghans sims were recovered from terrorists’ possession. “Tehreek-i-Taliban splinter group Jamaatul Ahrar has a presence in the area”.
Friday’s blast came as security forces fended off four suicide bombers who were trying to attack a Christian colony near the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provincial capital of Peshawar, 60km to the west of Mardan.
Pakistan, Nisar said, has won the major part of war against terrorism.
The Minister said with the successful operation Zarb-e- Azb and the support of people and political forces, terrorism is defeated but the facilitators still remain to be taken to task.
Two soldiers, a police guard and two civilians were wounded too in the firefight with attackers. Jamaat-ur-Ahrar, which has targeted Christians in the past, claimed responsibility. The injured were rushed to area hospitals.
The PBC criticised the federal and KP governments for what it called their utter failure to maintain law and order in the province and provide security to people.
“There used to be multiple attacks in a day across the country”.
A security guard reportedly fired on the assailants and was killed, but residents said his quick response – and that of Pakistani security forces – helped avert greater carnage, according to accounts by Christian community groups. Still others target Pakistan’s regional rival India to the east.
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The Afghan officials have always been criticizing Islamabad for allowing the Taliban group and Haqqani network leaderships to operate using its soil for plotting and coordinating attacks in Afghanistan.
