Overview
- Five officers were injured when a motorcycle-borne bomb hit a police patrol in Lakki Marwat on Tuesday on the Bannu–Dera Ismail Khan stretch of the Indus Highway.
- Police said the Lakki Marwat blast was carried out by “Fitna‑al‑Khawarij,” a state term for militants of the banned Tehreek‑e‑Taliban Pakistan.
- The latest blast followed Monday’s shootings in Bannu that killed Constable Rafiullah and guard Gul Shah Noor outside a NADRA identity office and fatally wounded Constable Sher Muhammad near Mandan.
- Security forces moved in with heavy deployments, road checkpoints, and large search operations, while CTD and bomb disposal teams examined the attack sites.
- National and provincial leaders condemned the violence as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa continues to see most militant incidents in Pakistan, with 3,811 of 5,397 recorded last year after the TTP truce collapsed in November 2022.