Five People Died and Over Twenty Were Injured in Northwest Pakistan Blast

According to local media on Friday, there were up to five fatalities and twenty-one injuries after an explosion close to a police patrol in northwest Pakistan.

According to the Dawn newspaper, the Tehreek-e-Taliban-e-Pakistan (TTP) brokered a truce with the government in November, which coincided with the explosion that occurred in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A policeman was killed earlier this week when unidentified terrorists stormed a police camp in Dera Ismail Khan. On the same day, an IED explosion in the South Waziristan area claimed the lives of two troops.

Twelve Pakistani Army troops lost their lives in separate military operations in the Balochistani districts of Zhob and Sui in July. This was the most number of military fatalities from terrorist assaults in a single day this year.

Ten people lost their lives in a “fire raid” in the Kech area of Balochistan earlier in February 2022, according to a Pakistani publication. An Islamanad-based think tank revealed last month that the number of terrorist assaults in August increased significantly, hitting a record high for the month in almost nine years.

As to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), there were 99 assaults nationwide in November 2014, which is the greatest number of attacks in a single month.