At least nine people, including four law personnel, were injured in an explosion near the Bani Mara de Peshawar area on Thursday, police said.
Peshawar Capital City Police officer (CCPO), Dr. Mian Saeed, confirmed these details for Dawn.comadding that the police were attacked in the incident. “The initial investigation shows that the device that caused the explosion was planted on the route of a police mobile,” he added.
The CCPO added that the condition of one of the injured was serious. Rescue services transferred the injured to a nearby medical center after the attack.
He said the police were investigating whether the explosion was caused by an improvised explosive device or not.
The statements issued by their office said that five of the injured were civilians and four were police officers.
After the explosion, a great contingent of security forces reached the site of the incident and cordoned off the area.
Separately, said the major police superintendent of the city, Operation Masood Bangash Dawn.com that the law agents were investigating the incident and evidence of the explosion site was being collected.
The explosion occurs less than two months after two people died and another 20, including police officers, were injured in a bomb explosion aimed at a police vehicle in the Wana Tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the lower district of the southern Waziristan.
In another incident in Baluchistan in July, three police officers were injured in an attack against a road police vehicle in the Nasirabad district of Baluchistan.
Terrorism reports
Pakistan has witnessed an increase in terrorist attacks, especially in KP and Baluchistan, predominantly directing the police, the personnel of the agencies of application of the law and the security forces. The attacks increased after the forbidden Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) broke a high fire agreement with the government in 2022.
Two reports, issued by the Institute of Conflicts and Security Studies of Pakistan (PETS) and the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) yesterday, on militant violence in the country during the past month, they declared that the first three quarters of 2025 saw almost as much violence as witnessed throughout 2024.
According to PICSS, militant violence decreased significantly in September 2025, with the number of attacks and the militant capacity that shows a strong decrease compared to the record levels observed in August. The PICSS militancy database registered 69 militant attacks in September, a reduction of 52 percent of August 143. These August 27.
The deaths included 61 security personnel, 20 militants and 54 civilians. Among the injured were 74 security personnel and 99 civilians. Compared to August, the number of martyred security personnel decreased by 16 percent, militant deaths of 66pc and civil deaths for 17 percent, which reflects a remarkable decrease in lethality.
KP remained the most affected province, but he also witnessed intensified actions of anti -terrorism. The province reported 45 attacks that killed 54 people and injured 49.
According to the CRSS report, Pakistan witnessed an increase of more than 46 % in general violence in their security scene for the third quarter of 2025, with at least 901 deaths and 599 injuries, among civilians, security and outlaven staff, resulting from 329 incidents of violence.
