Islamabad, Pakistan
Attacks against the police in northwestern Pakistan on Monday killed at least five people Monday, including four policemen, officials said.
Four people died in a suicide attack in Peshawar, where a bomb walked in front of a marked police van and detonated himself, according to Pakistani officials Muhammad Siraj. Among them was a police officer and three were police officers.
Sixteen people were injured in the attack, Siraj said. Accidents involving police and civilians.
A fourth police personnel died hours later when another bomb hit a police vehicle on patrol in Peshawar, according to Shafi Ullah Khan, head of the Pakistani police.
The second attack wounded three other officers.
Peshawar is the capital of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been plagued by militant activity and sectarian violence that has spilled into the tribal region of Pakistan.
In south-west of ballot activists attacked and burned three tankers taking fuel to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Sunday night an official of the Pakistani police.
The attack occurred 50 km (31 miles) south of Quetta, in south-western Baluchistan second Noor Ul Haq.
attack Sunday night just hours after another group of militants on motorbikes burned two trucks of supplies to NATO in the province of Baluchistan, who were also en route to Afghanistan.
More than half of U.S. and NATO supplies to Afghanistan pass through Pakistan. Over the past two years, militants have tried to impede efforts to provide supply convoys to attack Pakistan.
Pakistani officials say that some of the trucks are being targeted by criminals who want to sell supplies and vehicle owners who wish to benefit from insurance policies.
Attacks against the police in northwestern Pakistan on Monday killed at least five people Monday, including four policemen, officials said.
Four people died in a suicide attack in Peshawar, where a bomb walked in front of a marked police van and detonated himself, according to Pakistani officials Muhammad Siraj. Among them was a police officer and three were police officers.
Sixteen people were injured in the attack, Siraj said. Accidents involving police and civilians.
A fourth police personnel died hours later when another bomb hit a police vehicle on patrol in Peshawar, according to Shafi Ullah Khan, head of the Pakistani police.
The second attack wounded three other officers.
Peshawar is the capital of the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which has been plagued by militant activity and sectarian violence that has spilled into the tribal region of Pakistan.
In south-west of ballot activists attacked and burned three tankers taking fuel to U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan on Sunday night an official of the Pakistani police.
The attack occurred 50 km (31 miles) south of Quetta, in south-western Baluchistan second Noor Ul Haq.
attack Sunday night just hours after another group of militants on motorbikes burned two trucks of supplies to NATO in the province of Baluchistan, who were also en route to Afghanistan.
More than half of U.S. and NATO supplies to Afghanistan pass through Pakistan. Over the past two years, militants have tried to impede efforts to provide supply convoys to attack Pakistan.
Pakistani officials say that some of the trucks are being targeted by criminals who want to sell supplies and vehicle owners who wish to benefit from insurance policies.