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Two suicide bombers attacked a security force headquarters in northwestern Pakistan on Monday morning, killing at least three officers and wounding five others, police and rescue officials said.
attacked in PeshawarCapital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province adjacent to the border afghanistancity police chief Saeed Ahmed said.
He said one attacker blew himself up at the main gate of the Federal Constabulary’s provincial headquarters, while the other attacker was shot dead by officers near a parking area.
According to Ahmed, a large number of security personnel were in the open ground inside the headquarters for morning parade practice when the attack took place. “The terrorists involved in today’s attack were on foot and failed to reach the parade area and the timely response of our forces prevented a major tragedy,” he told The Associated Press.
No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.
However, the Pakistani Taliban, also known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, has been blamed for similar previous attacks in the country, which has seen an increase in terrorist attacks. The TPP is separate from but affiliated with the Afghan Taliban, which leads Afghanistan.
The latest attack comes less than two weeks after a suicide bomber attacked a court in the Pakistani capital islamabadDetonated his explosives next to a police car and killed 12 people.
The attacks have strained relations between Islamabad and Afghanistan’s Taliban government, with Pakistan accusing the Pakistani Taliban of operating independently inside Afghanistan since its takeover in 2021.
The Pakistani government often accuses Afghanistan of turning a blind eye to cross-border attacks by terrorists.
Kabul has denied the accusation, but tensions between the two sides rose after Afghanistan blamed Pakistan for the October 9 drone attacks in Kabul and vowed to retaliate. Dozens of people, including soldiers, civilians and terrorists, were killed in the fighting that followed. Queue A ceasefire took place on 19 October, which still stands.
This was followed by two rounds of talks in Istanbul, during which the two sides failed to reach an agreement after Afghanistan refused to give guarantees in writing about preventing the TTP from using Afghan soil for attacks inside Pakistan.
Pakistan has stepped up its crackdown against the TTP in recent weeks, killing dozens of insurgents near areas bordering Afghanistan.
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Associated Press writer Rasool Dawar in Peshawar, Pakistan, contributed to this story.