Pakistan Taliban Kill 3 Police Officers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Local authorities have reported that militants attacked a police outpost in northeastern Pakistan, killing three security personnel on Thursday evening.

The terror attack took place in the Khyber district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan late yesterday evening. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), also known as the Pakistani Taliban, claimed the responsibility for the deadly attack, resulting in the death of three security force members.

Imran Khan, the district police chief told reporters that at least four heavily armed attackers, including a suicide bomber, stormed the premises in what he said was a “coordinated attack” and inflicted casualties.

khan said, “they opened fire and lobbed hand grenades at police officers before a suicide bomber blew himself up. The other perpetrators managed to escape the area afterward.

Terror incidents have rapidly increased throughout Pakistan over the past months, ending in the death of hundreds of security officials and civilians. The outlawed Taliban Pakistan has been mostly behind such brutal attacks.

TTP, the ideological twin of the Afghan Taliban has been waging deadly attacks in the country for more than 15 years to enforce what they call the “Islamic system” in Pakistan.

The TTP called off their unilateral months-long ceasefire with the government in November and intensified their attacks on military personnel, police officers, ISI officials, and local citizens. Thousands of people have lost their lives in the brutal attacks executed by the militant group.

The Afghan Taliban hosted the talks between the TTP and Pakistan government which did not last very long. Meanwhile, the Pakistani government accuses the de facto authorities of Afghanistan of providing sanctuaries to Pakistani Taliban in border areas between the two countries, and not fulfilling the promises of the Doha agreement signed between the Taliban and the United States.  

The recent accusations have soured the relations between the two neighbors both suffering from international terrorism and militancy for the past decades.

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