Wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistani province bordering Afghanistan

KHYBER PAKHTUNKHWA, Pakistan (AA) – In recent months, terrorist attacks have increased in the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan, which border Afghanistan

On Thursday, two suspected suicide bombers killed six people and injured eight others in a bomb attack near a government building in northwestern Pakistan.

The attack occurred Thursday in the Bara Bazar area of Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

Four policemen and two civilians were killed in the blast, while eight others were injured.

“It was apparently a suicide bombing as officials also recovered two unknown bodies believed to be of suicide bombers,” Bilal Faizi, a spokesman for Rescue 1122, told Anadolu over the phone.

The blast also caused damage to the complex building where offices of local administration, including police, are located.

According to Faizi, rescue teams and police reached the spot and shifted all the injured to a nearby hospital.

The latest incident occurred just two days after a suicide bomber hit a truck carrying paramilitary forces in Peshawar city, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, on Tuesday.

The latest attack came just two days after a suicide bomber attacked a truck carrying paramilitary forces in Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

At least eight security personnel were injured in the attack.

Last week, two attacks and subsequent operations in the Zhob and Sui areas of Balochistan killed at least 12 Pakistani soldiers and seven militants.

The recent wave of terrorism has heightened tensions between Pakistan and Afghanistan. Islamabad has declared that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants have “freedom of action” across the border in Afghanistan.

The interim Afghan Taliban government has said Kabul will not allow anyone to use Afghan soil against another country.

Taliban’s interim Foreign Minister Amir Khan Muttaqi met Pakistan’s Special Representative for Afghanistan Asif Durrani, who arrived in Kabul on Wednesday to discuss the latest security situation in the region.

Muttaqi said that Afghans “will never harm anyone; we will allow none to use our soil against another country; and our efforts will always be directed at working for regional security and stability.”