In the city of Kohat, near the porous frontier where Pakistan meets Afghanistan, a car bomb tore through a police compound on a Friday of prayer, killing at least sixteen people — officers, civilians, and the attacker among them. The violence arrives not as an isolated shock but as another pulse in a long hemorrhage: Pakistan blames the TTP for the attack, alleging the group plans its campaigns from sanctuaries inside Taliban-governed Afghanistan, a charge Kabul continues to deny. Between two neighboring states bound by geography and divided by grievance, each bombing deepens a wound that dipl
Suicide bombing at Pakistan police facility kills at least 16 near Afghan border
At least 16 people killed including five police officers and ten civilians, with over 30 wounded in the suicide bombing.