Miranshah Assistant Commissioner Shah Wali and two cops were among four martyred after the official\u2019s vehicle came under attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Bannu on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Bannu Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sajjad Khan confirmed the number of casualties.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe attack was sudden, and after opening fire on the vehicle, the assailants also set it on fire,\u201d he said. The DIG said the area was cordoned off after the incident and a search was underway to locate the attackers.<\/p>\n
\u201cSecurity forces and police are conducting a joint operation. Security in the area has been put on high alert and investigations are being carried out from every angle,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Bilal Saqib, the assistant commissioner\u2019s secretary, told the media that the incident took place at around 10am. He said the assistant commissioner was on his way to appear before a court when he was \u201cambushed\u201d near Mamash Khel\u2019s Masoomabad.<\/p>\n
Giving details about the deaths, he said that two constables and a civilian, who was working in the fields, were martyred, while two police officials were injured. He said that an investigation was underway into the incident.<\/p>\n
Miranshah is the administrative headquarters of North Waziristan district and is adjacent to Bannu.<\/p>\n
President Asif Ali Zardari expressed sorrow over the lives lost in the incident. A statement shared by the PPP on X said he condemned the terrorist attack.<\/p>\n
He further said that the elimination of terrorists operating with external support against the country was being carried out with national consensus.<\/p>\n
He also prayed for the speedy recovery of the injured police personnel and directed the relevant agencies to ensure the immediate arrest of the attackers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Miranshah Assistant Commissioner Shah Wali and two cops were among four martyred after the official\u2019s vehicle came under attack in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s Bannu on Tuesday. Bannu Deputy Inspector General (DIG) Sajjad Khan confirmed the number of casualties. \u201cThe attack was sudden, and after opening fire on the vehicle, the assailants also set it on fire,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-court-and-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13801"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13803,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13801\/revisions\/13803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}