Terrorism-related Incidents in Peshawar - 2013

January 1

Police foiled a terrorism bid in the Sarband area of Peshawar, by defusing a 70-kilogramme bomb.

January 2

Five students received minor injuries slightly when an explosive device went off at University of Peshawar in Peshawar.

January 4

Two persons were killed and one another injured in a bomb explosion in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

January 4

The militants also stormed a security post in Mera Matani area of Peshawar in the evening. The alert Police commandos and Frontier Constabulary personnel resisted the attack. The exchange of fire continued for some time before the attackers escaped. No casualty was reported in the attack.

January 4

Explosives planted at the building of a private school in Hassan Garhi went off. The explosion was heard in many parts of the provincial capital. However, no casualty was reported in the blast that slightly damaged the boundary wall of the school.

January 7

Militants made a serious threat to the Government against re-starting anti-polio campaign by planting a bomb weighing three kilograms in a health centre in the Rashidabad area of Peshawar (Peshawar District).

January 8

Unidentified assailants shot dead a Shia doctor associated with the ruling PPP in the Dabgari area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A girl's primary school was blown up by unidentified militants in Badhaber, a suburban area of the Peshawar.

Police arrested four militants following exchange of fire in Sarband area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Unidentified militants abducted a Sikh businessman for ransom from Quaidabad area of Peshawar. Rakbir Singh, a shopkeeper in Hayatabad market, was kidnapped outside his house in the Quaidabad area.

One doctor, Dr Shah Nawaz Ali, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in his cantonment area clinic on Liaquat Street in Saddar Bazaar of Peshawar.

An explosive device, planted near a CD shop at Bacha Khan Chowk on Charssada Road, exploded damaging three shops.

Four pro-Government tribesmen from a militia were shot dead in the hujra of a local person at Gul Bagh village on the suburbs of Peshawar.

Five mortars were fired targeting headquarters of FC in Hayatabad residential area of Peshawar.

Hayatabad Police seized a vehicle loaded with weapons and ammunitions. During search of the vehicle, Police recovered 115 pistols, 16 Kalashnikov rifles and thousands of rounds.

Militants rained more mortar shells on Peshawar on the second consecutive day as four shells landed in Hayatabad.

A blast in a shop in the Sarband, a suburb of Peshawar, had panicked Policemen deployed at the nearby checkpost in the night.

Police arrested two suspected militants and recovered a huge quantity of explosives and weapons during a raid on a depot on Ring Road in Peshawar.

A man was killed and three others sustained injuries in a blast in Acheeni Mera near Al-Hamra Township in Peshawar.

At least 10 persons were injured in a low-intensity bomb blast targeting a Police mobile van in the Firdus area under limits of Hashtnagri Police Station in Peshawar.

A Police patrol narrowly escaped an explosion in the morning in Shinwari Town in Paharipura area of provincial capital, Peshawar.

Unidentified militants hurled two explosives into the Badaber Police Station in the night, which didn't go off. Police called the BDU experts who neutralised the explosives.

A Police constable, Sajjad, was killed when two motorcycle bourne unidentified assailants opened fire on him on the Kohat Road near Ring Road Chowk in Peshawar.

The BDU defused an IED, weighing 10 kilogram, planted on the rooftop of a filling station on the Frontier road in Peshawar.

Nearly 24 LI militants invaded a house in Mera Balarzai, near Badhaber Police Station, in the provincial capital of KP, Peshawar, and abducted five men in the night.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a senior Shia lawyer, Malik Jarrar Hussain, in the Gulbahar area of Peshawar.

A grenade attack on Police in evening left four officers injured on GT Road in the Nishterabad area of Peshawar.

An explosion in Badaber at the outskirts of Peshawar damaged the shrine of Akhwan Salaq Baba.

The Police averted a terrorism attempt by defusing two powerful bombs near Pando Chowk in the limits of Chamkani Police Station.

Faiz Muhammad Khan, a community Police constable and brother of Adezai Aman Lashkar's leader Waqif Khan, was shot dead in the crowded Matani market of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).

February 18

Four Security Force personnel and two civilian were killed while five persons, including a senior government official, were injured when two suicide bombers attacked the Khyber House, office-cum-residence of Khyber Agency's political agent in the Cantonment area of Peshawar.

February 21

Two persons were killed and 17 others injured in a bomb blast in a mobile phone shop in Khushal Market in old Hashtnagri area of Peshawar.

February 22

Unidentified assailants shot dead a lawyer in the limits of Paharipura Police Station of Peshawar.

February 24

A Police head constable was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Yakatut area of Peshawar in the morning.

Suspected militants blew up a Government primary school in Badhber area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A Police official said that terrorists planted an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) in Government Boys Primary School-II Masho Piki that went off after midnight.

Unidentified assailants killed a Shia trader and injured another at a shop in Kochi Bazaar in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the evening.

At least six people were killed and 30 others injured in a remote-controlled blast inside Jamia Hanfia Chishtia Mosque in Meena Bazaar of Peshawar, Provincial Capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A Bomb Disposal officer was killed on the outskirts of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while defusing a roadside bomb.

Meanwhile, four CD shops were damaged in a suspected militant attack in Matani area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP.

A Policeman and three civilians were killed and 49 persons, including a woman additional district and session's judge, were injured in a suicide attack in a judicial complex in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two suicide bombers entered the complex and one of them blew himself up in the courtroom of Additional District and Sessions Judge Kalsoom Zaman while the second was gunned down by police.

An unidentified assailant shot dead a Shia lawyer and injured his assistant seriously on Dalazak Road in Peshawar.

SFs launched a massive search in the rural Peshawar and adjacent semi-tribal area a day after the suicide attack on the Judicial Complex in the provincial capital. Dozens of suspects were arrested during the drive and shifted to an unknown place.

SFs arrested about 60 suspects in connection with the March 18, 2013, suicide attack on judicial complex in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

A low intensity bomb exploded outside the office of a local advertisement company on Dorra Road within the jurisdiction of Banamari Police Station in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A senior Federal Government official was shot dead, in what Police said was an incident of sectarian killing in the Gulbahar area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. "Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a WAPDA vehicle carrying Town-2 SDO Khawaja Imran in the Gulbahar area," a Police official said. Gulbahar Police said the WAPDA official was targeted because he belonged to Shia sect.

Separately, a tribesman was shot dead and a taxi driver injured in an attack at Dabgari area.

Two persons were injured in an explosion near Yunus Park in Peshawar. The blast reportedly took place outside an arms dealer shop. The building above the arms dealer's shop, houses the Peoples Labour office for Peshawar, an office affiliated with the PPP.

A small intensity explosive device went off near the house of PPP leader Akbar Khan Mohmand on Shami Road. Police said that no one had been injured and only a section of the wall had been damaged.

12 persons, including four security personnel, were killed and 35 others were injured in a suicide bomber attacked on the vehicle of Commandant of Frontier Constabulary in the province Abdul Majeed Marwat in the high-security cantonment area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan made phone calls to media offices in Peshawar to accept responsibility for the attack. "We targeted the FC (commandant) for operations against the Taliban and tribal people."

Five WAPDA employees, including a SDO, and three community Police personnel were found dead in fields near Sheikh Muhammadi area in Badhaber, a suburb of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after a militant attack on a grid station. During the attack, the militants fired seven rockets at a 500 kilowatt grid station in Sheikh Muhammadi, causing it to catch fire. An official of the BDS, Abdul Haq, said 14 bombs of five kilograms each had been planted to blow up the offices and the grid station. "Thirteen bombs exploded while one was defused by the bomb disposal unit," he said.

Unidentified assailants killed a man, Syed Zulqarnain Haider (24), on Daora Road under Pando Police Station.

One person was killed and four others including three minors were injured when three mortar rounds fired from unknown direction, landed in phase-VI Hayatabad area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Unidentified militants targeted a Police van with a remote-controlled device in the Ghaziabad area of Kohat town in Peshawar District but failed to inflict any causality.

No casualty was reported as two bombs went off near a Police checkpost in Matani and another in Khazana area of Peshawar. There was no casualty was the policemen had not yet arrived at the spot for duty.

A powerful blast has been reported outside the residence of former senator Nasir Khan Afridi in Hayatabad Phase-II area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Rockets fired by unidentified militants hit the house of Raz Gul in Saeedabad area. Sources said that a rocket landed in a graveyard while another hit an open plot.

Suspected militants fired seven mortar shells from the FATA area on Hayatabad area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, injuring 22 people and damaging several houses and vehicles.

A CD centre and two nearby shops were damaged in the busy Mian Iqbal Chowk (Stadium Chowk) in cantonment area. Police said unidentified militants had planted explosives with the CD shop owned by one Khairullah that went off at around 5:30 am.

A leader of ANP and former provincial minister Arbab Ayub Jan escaped a bomb attack, however, three persons sustained injuries in the blast in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A blast in Matani hospital on the suburbs of Peshawar caused panic among the people of the area. A Police source said that the blast damaged windowpanes and walls of the hospital; however, it didn't cause any loss of life

Three persons, including a Policeman, were killed and three Policemen received bullet injuries in an encounter at Shagai Road in the limits of Cantonment Police Station in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Nine persons were killed in a bomb blast in a bus passing through the Matani area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

16 persons, including SHO, were killed and more than 35 were injured when a suicide bomber targeted the senior ANP leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and his nephew Haroon Bilour in Mundabheri area of Yakatut in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The TTP claimed responsibility for the attack.

Five vehicles were destroyed and three others damaged in a blast near a car showroom on the University Road near Tehkal area of Peshawar.

The BDU neutralised an IED planted near a graveyard in Matani.

Two persons, including a woman, injured in a bomb blast near Sarki Gate area of Peshawar.

At least 10 persons, including two Afghan diplomats and a journalist, were killed and over 60 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack on the University Road in Peshawar.

The BDS neutralised an IED in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP. According to Police, the personnel of BDS were called in after an explosive filled pot with a mobile device attached was spotted by the locals in Badhaber.

The BDU official's defused two bombs planted to target two election contestants in the limits of Mathra Police Station of Peshawar.

A bomb planted to target a candidate of the ANP for PK-8 was defused in Khidrakhel village in the jurisdiction of Khazana Police Station in Peshawar.

Two Policemen, a woman and a suicide bomber were killed and another militant arrested with a suicide vest during an encounter in Rasheed Garhi area of Peshawar.

Two Policemen were killed and eight other persons were wounded in two separate attacks in Badaber area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Two Policemen were injured in an exchange of fire with alleged militants in Sheikh Mohammadi village in Badaber area of Peshawar.

Three soldiers and two civilians were killed while six others sustained injuries in a bomb attack followed by firing on a Security Forces' convoy on the Kohat Road near Sra Khawra area of Matani in Peshawar.

Unidentified assailants killed the driver of a NATO trailer and injured his helper on Ring Road in limits of Pishtakhara Police Station in Peshawar.

Two security persons were killed while another injured when terrorists opened indiscriminate firing on a security caravan in Matani area of Peshawar.

Four Policemen were injured when terrorists targeted a Police vehicle which was on a routine patrolling in the Maryam Zai of Peshawar.

Three persons were killed in a suicide attack, targeting Hazi Hayatullah, leader of Afghan religious outfits Jamatul Dawa Alquran and Sunnah, on Pajagi Road in Saeedabad area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Police arrested six militants, including a woman, and seized IED, hand grenades and a suicide jacket during raid on a house at Tarnab Farm on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Militants killed seven Police personnel in KP. The target of the attack was top Police Officer Dilawar Bangash; however he survived with minor injuries. Bangash was heading from Peshawar to Kohat near the lawless tribal region when the attack occurred.

At least three persons were killed and 14 others were injured when a bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in the Imamia Colony in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The explosives were planted in a motorcycle detonated by remote control. Most of the people living in the area belonged to the Shia community which appeared to be the target of the attack.

Police averted a bid of terrorism in the restive Badaber area on the outskirt of the Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by defusing a powerful bomb.

A man was killed when a powerful bomb exploded in Peshawar city, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The incident occurred in Masogujar village where a bomb planted by the roadside exploded with a huge bang. As a result, a passerby, identified as Nadeem Khan, was killed instantly.

Militants killed the principal of a Government High School in Pastawana in the outskirt of Peshawar city. Local residents said that dozens of heavily armed militants entered the house of principal Haji Rehman and opened fire, killing him on the spot.

A roadside bomb attack targeting Police in Peshawar, the Provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa killed two officers and wounded three others. The IED exploded when the officers were on a routine patrol in the Daudzai suburb of Peshawar, killing two of them on spot.

A female anti-polio worker who was injured in an attack by armed assailants on May 28 in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa lost her battle for life. Sumbal Bibi, who had sustained bullet injuries in an attack by miscreants, succumbed to her wounds.

A Shia doctor, identified as Dr Shakir Hussain, was injured and his gunman was killed when militants in Police uniform tried to abduct him near Syed Anwar Medical Plaza of Dabgari Gardens in the jurisdiction of East Cantonment Police Station in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A dead body of an unidentified person was found along the Sakaran Road of Hub Two persons, including a Policeman, were killed in a firing incident on Dora Road in the limits of Bala Mani Police Station of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Police officials successfully averted a threat by having a 10-kilogram remote controlled explosive defused in Kishan Garh of Mattani area in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The explosive device, planted along the roadside, was aimed at causing damage to the Paramilitary Forces who were also present in the area. The device after being spotted was defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) who reached the site immediately.

A Police official, identified as Karamatullah, was killed and one other was injuried by unidentified assailants in Gulbahar area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Three Policemen were injured by unidentified assailants in Badaber area.

Seven persons, including three personnel of FC, three Policemen and a woman, were injured when militants attacked a Police post in Mashogagar area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Six SF personnel were killed and three others injured when a convoy of the forces came under attack in Sra Khawra area of Matani town in outskirts of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of KP. The sources said four of the militants were also shot dead when the SF personnel retaliated.

Peshawar, a Policeman and two civilians were injured in an explosion that took place in Gulbahar Police Station on GT Road.

15 Shia persons were killed and 25 others were injured in a suicide attack at an Imambargah in largely Shia area of Gulshan Colony on the edge of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Suspected militants shot dead Deputy Superintendent of Police (Traffic) Amanullah Khan and his driver on Dalazak Road in Peshawar at about 8:30pm.

A villager died when explosives planted in a mosque in Tirayee Payan village went off in the wee hours.

Hayatabad SHO Mera Jan was shot dead in an attack by unidentified assailants at Karkhano checkpost near Peshawar's (Peshawar District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) border with Khyber Agency in FATA.

At least 18 civilians were killed and 46 injured in a car bomb attack on a convoy of the Frontier Corps in Badbher area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Two Police constables were shot dead at Ring Road in the Pishtakhara Police Station jurisdiction of Peshawar.

At least six FC personnel were killed and seven others injured when militants attacked the Kishan Ganga check-post near FR, Jina Kor, in Peshawar.

Two TTP militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs in Sheikh Nala area of the Matani Police Station in Peshawar.

A Policeman was shot dead by an unidentified assailant in a targeted attack in Umeedabad area of Peshawar.

A doctor remained unhurt when his car was blown up in a blast at Khyber Medical Centre, Dabgari Garden in Peshawar.

Unidentified assailants shot dead a former IB official at Dhaki Nalbandi under Khan Raziq Police Station in Peshawar.

A Police Sub-Inspector was shot dead in Qissa Khwani Bazaar of Peshawar. Sub-Inspector Gharibullah of Khan Raziq Police Station was on duty when unidentified assailants on motorcycle opened fire on him.

An explosion took place in a bus in Paharipura area of Peshawar near the Motorway exchange. The blast occurred inside an inter-city bus travelling between Abbottabad and Peshawar.

A blast had occurred earlier outside a house near Scheme chowk on Kohat road Peshawar. Police sources that a home-made explosive device was used in the blast and that there no human casualties in the incident.

Police recovered a huge quantity of explosives and related material and also arrested one suspected terrorist during a raid conducted in Federal H colony in Hassan Garhi area.

Police arrested 26 persons, including 10 proclaimed offenders, in a search operation targeting several villages under Matani Police Station in Peshawar.

Two persons were injured when an explosion took place near a mosque in Sikandarpurah area of Peshawar.

A blast in Yakatoot area of Peshawar damaged the house of a cosmetic dealer. However, no casualty was reported.

An explosion took place near a mosque in the Afghan Colony area under Faqirabad Police Station of Peshawar.

Police arrested a teenage suicide bomber, Fazal Shah, and his accomplice in the Maqsoodabad area under Khazana Police Station of Peshawar.

The Badhaber Police along with the FC repulsed an attack by the militants at the Sheen Drang check post, on the border of Akkakhel area in the Khyber Agency, in Peshawar.

Four assailants riding two motorcycles ambushed a senior Police officer, killing his driver and security guard, in the Gulbahar area of Peshawar.

Terrorists attacked a check post of SFs in Matani area of Peshawar. A civilian was killed and four others sustained injuries when a mortar shell hit a house during the fight.

At least four Policemen were injured in a grenade attack by unidentified militants on a Police van in the Hashtnagri area under the jurisdiction of Yakatut Police Station in Peshawar.

The SHO of Daudzai Police Station and his driver were killed when unidentified militants ambushed their vehicle on Aryana Road on the outskirts of Peshawar.

A suspected militant was killed and two others arrested when Police conducted a raid in Badaber area of Peshawar.

Peshawar Police arrested a TTP Punjab chapter 'commander' reportedly involved in the July 29 Dera Ismail Khan Jailbreak incident.

A hand-grenade was lobbed into the house of a senator from Khyber Agency of FATA in Hayatabad area of Peshawar.

BDS defused two hand grenades found in the Khazana area of Peshawar. A Noor Colony resident identified as Mehboob found them outside his house and called the BDS.

Police shot dead a militant, identified as Muhammad Khan (20), a resident of Bannu, in the Matani area of Peshawar.

ANP leader Najma Haneef Jadoon was shot dead by unidentified militants inside her house at Phase I in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar..

Soon after the killing of Najma Haneef, Police launched a search operation in the area and arrested some suspects.

The volunteers of peace committees in the suburban areas of Peshawar tightened security in their respective localities after receiving threatening telephone calls from militants. Adezai Qaumi Lashkar chief Fazal Malik, when contacted, said that peace volunteers were already active but now militants were threatening them to attack the village. "I have personally received several calls from Bilal, a militant, who belongs to Adezai village and has recently shifted to Afghanistan.

Militants abducted two boys from Suleiman Khel village, on the suburbs of Peshawar.

At least six people were killed and one more was injured after unidentified militants opened fire on a car near Gulzar Chowk in Matani area of Peshawar.

Five persons, including three Policemen and two civilians, were injured in a blast targeting Hashtnagri Police Station in Peshawar.

Police recovered a huge cache of weapons being transported from the FATA to in Phandou area of Peshawar and arrested the offender.

Police said a senior doctor and agency surgeon, Dr Mujahid Hussain, was abducted by unidentified persons from the limits of the Hayatabad Police Station in Peshawar.

An Afghan trader Ima Khan was abducted from the limits of Hayatabad Police Station in Peshawar which lodged the FIRs in both the incidents.

Three persons were killed and 20 others injured in the night in a hand grenade attack near a mosque in the Sarband area of Peshawar.

Police foiled a terror plan when they neutralised a five kilograms bomb near the Sulemankhel Chawki in Badbher area of Peshawar.

Police arrested two militants during a raid at Khegai village in the limits of the Matani Police Station in Peshawar.

As many as 81 persons were killed and 145 others injured when two suicide attackers blew themselves up at the end of a service at All Saints Church near Qissa Khawani bazaar in Peshawar.

The BDU along with District Police raided a warehouse in the jurisdiction of Yakkatoot Police Station in Peshawar and recovered a huge quantity of explosive material with detonators.

At least 19 persons were killed and 42 others injured when a bomb exploded on a bus carrying Government employees at Gulbela area on Charsadda Road of Peshawar.

A car bomb blast killed at least 42 persons and injured 100 others in Kissa Khawani Bazaar of Peshawar.

SI of Pishtakhara Police was injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast on Ring Road in Peshawar. A police mobile was on routine patrol at around 9:45am when the bomb went off.

SFs arrested three local militant 'commanders' during an operation in the Hassan Khel area of Peshawar. The arrested commanders were identified as Mullah Younas, Meena Gul and Dr Sarkha Gul.

A power pylon was blown up in Khazana area of Peshawar, while three other bombs planted with the electricity tower were defused in the night.

At least seven persons including four Policemen were killed and eight others injured as a bomb ripped through a function called to distribute anti polio material among the anti polio teams in Suleman Khel area of Union Council Bazidkhel of Badhaber area of Peshawar.

Unidentified militants abducted 10 persons from Matani area of Peshawar. Police said unidentified militants stopped three Kohat-bound vehicles in Matani and whisk away 10 persons.

A pro-Government tribal elder Malik Haji Sadat Sher from Gandao in Mohmand Agency (FATA) was travelling in a taxi en route to Peshawar when motorcyclists ambushed the vehicle on Charsadda Road near Budni Pull under Khazana Police Station in Peshawar. While Malik Haji Sadat Sher was killed, his driver sustained injuries.

Police recovered a 7th grade school student who was abducted for PKR 20 million ransom from Sharifabad in the limits of Yakatoot Police Station in Peshawar.

Three khasadar officials of Khyber Agency (FATA) sustained injuries when a roadside bomb targeted their vehicle on Ring Road near Achini under Pishtakhara Police Station in Peshawar.

The shrine of Sheikh Modula Babaji in Sheikhan village of Peshawar was blown up.

Police arrested two alleged extortionists - Dad Muhammad and Mughal Khan, residents of Mulazai village from Pishtakhara in Peshawar.

Around 53 people were arrested by Badhaber Police in a large-scale search operation in Mashokhel, Faqirabad and Surizai villages of Peshawar.

The Bomb Disposal Squad defused a bomb in Sector F-5 of Hayatabad area in Peshawar.

The BDS officials neutralised a three-kilogramme bomb packed in a ghee tin, in Phase-6 area of Hayatabad Residential Society under Tatara Police Station in Peshawar.

Four Police officials were killed in a drive-by shooting on a checkpoint on Ring Road located under the jurisdiction of Paharipura Police Station in Peshawar, in the evening.

Around 47 persons were arrested in a search operation conducted in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar. The operation was jointly conducted by Security Forces and Police in Bazid Khel, Kagawala, Ahmad Khel and Masho Khel villages.

In similar operations carried out in Pishtakhara, Yakatoot and Chamkani, as many as 224 people were arrested.

Four militants were arrested during a search operation in Matani area of Peshawar.

Police arrested the group responsible for the Qissa Khwani bomb blast, with clues that they have links to foreign intelligence agencies. Addressing a press conference at Malik Saad Police Lines, SSP Najeebur Rehman said they arrested four people in a raid on a house in Sara Dargai, Mattani and recovered 840 kilogrammes of high-quality explosives.

A child was killed and six persons were injured when a powerful bomb went off in Khalid Bin Waleed Town in the limits of Yakatoot Police Station in Peshawar.

Suspected militants blew up the building of a telephone exchange at Milli Khel area under Badbher Police Station of Peshawar.

At least 98 suspects, including five Afghan nationals, were detained during joint search operations conducted by Police and Security Forces' personnel in Peshawar

The Police detained over 100 suspects during the search operation in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Three persons were injured in another bomb blast in provincial capital Peshawar. BDS personnel said approximately five kilograms of explosive material concealed in a cylinder blew up near a Police van on Kohat road in Badhaber area on Peshawar's outskirts.

Unidentified militants shot dead a Police constable Attaullah deployed at a church in Swati Gate area of Umeedabad in Peshawar.

Two security guards, Noor Amin and Ahmad Khan were killed by unidentified assailants on Bara Road in Peshawar.

Two dead bodies were found wrapped in sacks in Regi area on the outskirt of Peshawar. The deceased were identified as Abdur Rahim and Abdul Wahab and both hailed from a suburb area of Daudzai.

Unidentified militants abducted a doctor, identified as Dr Amjad Taqween, at gun point from Hayatabad Phase VII in Peshawar and took him to an unidentified location. Dr Taqweem has a clinic in Karachi Market and is politically affiliated with JeI.

Chief polio paramedic, identified as Olas Khan, was abducted by unidentified armed militants when he was at home, which also operated as a clinic within the limits of Badhaber Police Station in Peshawar.

A physician, identified Dr Arshad Khan (57), was shot dead by unidentified militants in Gulberg area.

A Policeman was injured when a roadside remote-controlled IED exploded on Kohat Road.

At least three people were injured in a hand grenade attack outside a mosque in Peerano Kali area on Kohat Road.

Unidentified militants killed a polio worker, identified as Zahid Gul, and injured two other people in an attack on a hospital in Matni area of Peshawar.

At least three people were killed and four others were injured in a bomb blast in Garhi Khan Sher area of Budbher in Peshawar.