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Taliban militants targeted a police vehicle with a roadside bomb during an early-morning assault on a police station in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, inflicting six injuries and killing four police officers, according to officials.
In Lakki Marwat, a town in the Afghan border province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a police station was attacked. Both the police and the insurgents claim that four police officers in a police truck carrying reinforcements sent to deal with the assault were killed. Six police officers were hurt in the assault on the police station.
Attacks were attributed to the Pakistani Taliban.
According to local police official Ashfaq Khan, a search is being made for the militant suspects who attacked the Lakki Marwat police station before blowing up the police van. Both assaults were attributed to the Pakistani Taliban. The Taliban in Afghanistan are allies with the organisation known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP.
Attacks have increased in Pakistan since the Pakistani Taliban brokered a cease-fire with the government of Pakistan. TTP has gained strength ever since the Afghan Taliban took over the nation in 2021 as US and NATO troops were preparing to leave after 20 years of conflict. Since the Taliban took control of the country, numerous TTP leaders and soldiers have discovered safe havens there.
Although there have been countless militant strikes in Pakistan over the past 20 years, there has been an increase since the TTP broke a cease-fire with the Pakistani government that had been in place for several months and had been mediated by the Afghan Taliban.
