Following yesterday’s explosions at a counter-terrorism office in Swat that claimed 17 lives, citizens in Swat took to the streets once again to protest the rise in terrorism in the region.
An office of the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in the Kabal area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Swat Valley was reduced to rubble after two huge explosions.
The cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained.
Swat residents gathered at Kabal Chowk, Swat, in a protest rally organised by the Swat rights movement, Swat Olasi Pasoon (Swat People’s Movement).
After yesterday’s mysterious blast at a counter-terrorism police station that killed 17 people and injured dozens other, residents and activists gathered, under the banner of Swat Olasi Pasoon, at Kabal Chowk today to protest against growing insecurity in the region #Swatblast pic.twitter.com/iuKbxPb7UG
— Zia Ur Rehman (@zalmayzia) April 25, 2023
People protested against growing insecurity in the region.
Last year, the residents of Swat had organised a series of protest demonstrations against the rise in terrorism in the region. They demanded the authorities to curtail the rise of terrorism in the region.
Pakistan has witnessed a resurgence of terrorism with the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) targeting security officials particularly.
TTP is supported by the Taliban-led Afghan government.
Earlier, two policemen were killed and four others sustained injuries in militant attacks on census teams in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern districts of Tank and Lakki Marwat.
In Tank’s Kot Azam area, terrorists had opened fire at a police van deployed for the security of census staff while it was returning from a village. As a result, constable Khan Nawab was killed, while police constables Shah Nawaz and Aslam Khan, Levies official Bismillah, Frontier Constabulary official Abdullah and driver Eid Jan were injured.
Same day in another militant attack on a census team, a Frontier Reserve Police (FRP) police constable was killed in Pirwala area of the Lakki Marwat district when motorcyclists opened fire at the census team.
In January, a blast in Peshawar mosque inside a police compound claimed the lives of more than 60 people. The TTP claimed responsibility for one of the deadliest blasts in the city. Last month a police station in Peshawar was also targeted, resulting in three deaths. Meanwhile, the day after the deadly Peshawar attack, Punjab police thwarted an attack on a police station in Mianwali.
