In an early-morning assault on a police station in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, Taliban militants wounded six law enforcement officials and killed 4 via way of means of focused on a police automobile with a roadside bomb, in step with officials.
According to the police and the insurgents, 4 law enforcement officials in a police truck sporting reinforcements dispatched to cope with the assault on a police station in Lakki Marwat, a city withinside the Afghan bordering province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, have been killed. While the assault at the police station injured six cops.
Pakistani Taliban claimed duty for assaults
Local police officer Ashfaq Khan stated a seek is being performed for the militant suspects who attacked the Lakki Marwat police station and afterwards centered the police van with a bomb. The Pakistani Taliban claimed duty for each assaults. The organization recognise as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP is separate however allied with Afghanistan`s Taliban.
There has been an uptick in assaults in Pakistan after the Pakistani Taliban ended a cease-hearthplace with the authorities of Pakistan. TTP has been emboldened for the reason that Afghan Taliban seized electricity in Afghanistan in 2021 whilst US and NATO troops have been leaving the united states after twenty years of war. Many TTP leaders and combatants have discovered sanctuaries in Afghanistan for the reason that Taliban takeover.
Pakistan has visible innumerable militant assaults withinside the beyond many years however there was an uptick for the reason that November, whilst the TTP ended a monthslong Afghan Taliban-brokered cease-hearthplace with the authorities of Pakistan.