Blasts and suicide bombings in Pakistan have killed over 100 persons since February, injuring several others, following the explosion in Dera Ismail Khan in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Saturday.
The attacker allegedly stopped at the gate and detonated himself, AFP reported, citing a security official. The blast took place in the Ghwa Khwa area of Lower South Waziristan, near the Afghan border, after a bomb planted in a motorcycle detonated, PTI news agency reported. Two traffic police personnel and a woman were among those killed, The Associated Press reported.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the blast, saying those behind it would be found and brought to justice. The incident came a week after three children were injured after militants carried out a drone attack on a cricket ground in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, PTI cited officials as saying. Another nine people were killed and more than two dozen injured after a bomb rigged to a rickshaw exploded in a crowded bazaar in northwest Pakistan, a couple of days after the checkpost incident. The rickshaw blast occurred in Lakki Marwat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The latest blast in Dera Ismail Khan killed 11 people, injuring at least 30 others at a roadside police checkpoint after a suicide bomber allegedly detonated an explosives-laden vehicle there, the Associated Press cited police and rescue officials as saying. The blast outside a Shia religious centre in Islamabad, which killed over 30 people and injured 169 others in February, was the first major one in Pakistan which rocked the Capital Islamabad. The blast had taken place three months after a suicide blast outside a district court in Islamabad in November, 2025. Pakistan saw a string of blasts within days, which led to the deaths of over 40 people in May earlier this year, including children. On May 6, three children were killed and two others injured in an explosion outside a house in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. On May 10, militants detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan and opened fire on police, killing at least 12 and wounding five, officials told AFP.
Believed to be a suicide attack, the explosion took place at Khadijatul Kubra mosque-cum-imambargah in the Tarlai area of Islamabad, a police statement said. An unidentified individual had reportedly parked the motorcycle outside the home of a man identified as Saddam Hussain shortly before the explosion, according to police. Gunmen stormed the police checkpost after the car blast, opening fire, according to officials who said they also used small drones in the attack.
