Bomb kills 3 Pakistani police officers close to Afghanistan border

DID Press: Three Pakistani police officers were killed on Wednesday (Dec. 3) when a roadside bomb exploded in the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, near the border with Afghanistan. Local officials said two other officers were wounded in the attack.

Ali Hamza, a police official in the city of Dera Ismail Khan, said preliminary investigations indicated that the blast was caused by an improvised explosive device (IED).

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack, but Pakistan’s Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi pointed the finger at Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a militant group that has carried out similar attacks in the area for years.

The incident comes amid heightened tensions between Islamabad and Kabul, as a renewed wave of violence in northwestern Pakistan strains relations. Pakistan accuses Afghanistan of providing safe haven to TTP militants, a claim the Taliban authorities in Kabul deny.