Tuesday’s attack on a checkpost in the Battagram area of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa resulted in the martyrdom of a police constable.
According to the KP police, Constable Amjad Hussain was shot and killed by unidentified miscreants while carrying out his duties at a checkpost in Kas Pul.
Section 302 (intentional murder) of the Pakistan Penal Code and Sections 6 (terrorism) and 7 (punishment for acts of terrorism) of the Anti-Terrorism Act were the basis for the first information report of the incident filed by checkpost in-charge Mohammad Arif at the police station of the Counter-Terrorism Department in Upper Kohistan.
Arif claimed that as he hurried out of the restroom after hearing gunshots, he noticed a car and a motorcycle speeding in the direction of Thakot.
He claimed that additional police officers had also arrived at the police checkpoint and that Constable Hussain was laying in a pool of blood when he arrived. The corpse was relocated, according to Arif, to the District Headquarters Hospital in Battagram.
He claimed that before leaving the scene, the attackers grabbed the constable’s gun.
Hazara Division Regional Police Officer Tahir Ayub Khan, District Police Officer (DPO) Qamar Hayat Khan, and other officers attended the constable’s funeral prayers at the district police line.
According to the DPO, an area search is underway to locate the offenders.
Separately, the KP police reported that while on a security detail, Constable Farhad Khan was shot and killed in the area of Peshawar’s Inqilab police station.
On April 8, a police officer in the Badaber hamlet on the outskirts of Peshawar was slain by unidentified assailants.
Assistant sub-inspector Maroof Shah was being targeted in Sheikh Muhammadi village, according to the police, while he was making his way home from a mosque after praying.
In the Mamund tehsil of the Bajaur district of KP, an explosion in January near a police van resulted in the martyrdom of five police officers and the injuries of twenty-seven others.
The attack was attributed to the banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).
