A suicide car bomb attack targeting a police station in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province left at least five people dead, including three women and a child, late Thursday, police said. Several nearby houses were damaged in the blast, while at least four police personnel sustained injuries.ย
The blast occurred in Domel tehsil of Bannu district when a suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into the police station, triggering a powerful explosion that was heard across the area.
Police station wasย primary targetย
The intensity of the explosion and the reverberating explosionย caused panic among residents, with reports of gunfire immediately after the incident further escalating tensions.
Officials said the police station appeared to be the primary target of the attack. Rescue teams rushed to the spot and recovered five bodies from the debris, including those of three women and a child.
Emergency response and rescue operations are ongoing as authorities continue to assess the full extent of the damage and casualties.
Pakistan still remains ‘safe harbor’ for terrorists: US report
Last month, a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report had claimed that Islamabad remains a safe haven for terrorists, including for those who continue to target India, particularly the union territory (UT) of Jammu and Kashmir.ย
The report, dated March 25, 2026, said Pakistan and its military have acted “inconsistently” against terror groups, and authorities failed to take “sufficient action to stop certain terrorist groups and individuals from openly operating in the country”.
Lashkar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) continue to operate from Pakistani soil, despite Islamabad’s National Action Plan, which calls “ensure that no armed militias are allowed to function in the country”, the report said.ย
It said that LeT, formed in the late 1980s as the terrorist wing of Markaz ud Dawa ul-Irshad, has kept targeting India since 1993. The group has even carried out attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan, the report said, adding that it disseminates its message through Jamaat-ud-Dawa’s media outlets.
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