One killed in terrorist attack in Peshawar, Pakistan

One person was killed and at least six others were injured in a terrorist attack in Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Tuesday.

Earlier Geo News TV channel reported, citing police, that at least eight people were injured in Peshawar as a result of an explosion near a car belonging to the security forces. All the victims were hospitalized, and the condition of two of them was assessed as critical.

As The Express Tribune later reported, citing police, the explosion occurred along the route of a military personnel convoy of the paramilitary border corps. At the scene of the incident, security forces are investigating the circumstances of the incident. According to them, the explosion was carried out by a suicide bomber driving a car bomb.

Earlier, participants in a Conference of Commanders of Pakistani Army Corps held in Islamabad accused Afghanistan of increased terrorist activity on its territory. They said the failure of the Afghan Taliban to contain the Tehreek-e-Taliban (Pakistan Taliban Movement, TTP) group banned in Pakistan was the main reason for the latest surge of terrorist attacks in the provinces of Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The conference participants emphasized that the TTP militants in Afghanistan were given freedom of action, and they receive shelter and advanced weapons in this country bordering Pakistan.

With the increased threat from the TTP, the Pakistani government decided on Wednesday to send Pakistan's Special Representative on Afghanistan Asif Durrani to Kabul to convince the Taliban to stop extremists from using Afghan territory to carry out terrorist attacks in Pakistan.

According to the Ministry of Defense of Pakistan, in the first half of 2023, 13.6 thousand anti-terrorist operations were carried out in the country, leading to elimination or arrest of almost 1.2 thousand terrorists. During the operations, 95 Pakistani troops were killed.