Mosque blast
\nPESHAWAR
\nA blast tore through a mosque on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s South Waziristan district, leaving at least four people injured including district emir of Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), police said.
\nAbdullah Nadeem, a leader of the JUI-F, was believed to be the target of the blast and had been hospitalised with serious injures, said DPO Asif Bahadur, a district police chief in South Waziristan.
\nHe added that two children were among the injured. It was not immediately clear who was behind the explosion.
\nAttacks have been escalating in Pakistan\u2019s border regions with Afghanistan in recent months.
\nLast month, a suicide bomber killed six worshippers Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani \u2014 son of Maulana Samiul Haq and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-S) during Friday prayer at the Darul Uloom Haqqani in Nowshera district.
\nThis week in Balochistan, militants hijacked a train and held passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security forces, leaving at least 26 hostages and four security personnel dead.
\nLast month, a suicide bomber killed six worshippers Maulana Hamidul Haq Haqqani \u2014 son of Maulana Samiul Haq and chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-S) during Friday prayer at the Darul Uloom Haqqani in Nowshera district.
\nThis week in Balochistan, militants hijacked a train and held passengers hostage in a day-long standoff with security forces, leaving at least 26 hostages and four security personnel dead.
\nSimilar attacks have increased in Pakistan since the Taliban authorities returned to power in Afghanistan in August 2021.
\nIslamabad has time again urged Kabul to not allow its territory to be used by terrorist groups to carry out attacks against Pakistan \u2014 vehemently denied by the Afghan Taliban-led administration.
\nThe two nations share a porous border spanning around 2,500 kilometres with several crossing points which hold significance as a key element of regional trade and relations between the people across both sides of the fence.
\nThe diplomatic effort is coupled with ongoing kinetic action against terrorists by security forces who continue to engage in operations, eliminating a number of militants and thwarting multiple infiltration attempts.
\nHowever, the issue of terrorism remains a key issue for Pakistan which has urged Afghanistan to prevent its soil from being used by groups such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) to carry out attacks inside the former\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mosque blast PESHAWAR A blast tore through a mosque on Friday in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa\u2019s South Waziristan district, leaving at least four people injured including district emir of Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F), police said. Abdullah Nadeem, a leader of the JUI-F, was believed to be the target of the blast and had been hospitalised with serious …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":78410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78414,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78398\/revisions\/78414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}