Six injured in roadside Kohat blast

Source The News

Six persons sustained injuries in a roadside blast in the Frontier Region Darra Adamkhel on Monday, official sources said.

The sources said that a passenger coach, on way to Bannu from Peshawar, was targeted with a remote-controlled explosion in Akhorwal area in Darra Adamkhel. Six passengers were injured when militants triggered the explosion at 9 am.

The injured were taken to hospitals in Peshawar, the sources added. The sources said that an important government official who had travelled on the road minutes before the explosion was apparently the target.

Meanwhile, the militants fired 44 rockets on villages in Jawakai and Akhorwal areas on Wednesday but no casualty was reported in the attacks, official and local sources said.

KP minister escapes attempt on life in Kohat

Source The Nation

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Minister for Housing, Malik Amjad Afridi, escaped a life attempt on Monday, as some unidentified armed persons opened fire at his bulletproof vehicle in Billitang area of district Kohat. Sources said that minister was on his way in his vehicle when armed persons attacked him, adding owing to bulletproof vehicle, he survived. They said one of the bullets hit the windscreen of his vehicle.
Malik Amjad Afridi was elected Member of Provincial Assembly from PK-37 in February 2008 general elections as an independent candidate. Later he joined Awami National Party and he was given the portfolio of ministry of housing. District Police Officer, Kohat, Mubarik Zeb said that militants fired three sniper shots at his vehicle, out of which one hit the car's windscreen slightly damaging it.
He said the militants were hidden in the mountainous Bilitang area of Kohat.
Talking to local journalists, Afridi said he had no enmity with anyone and the attackers might be those who had attacked his father two years back. He said that involvement of militants could not be ruled out in this incident.
It is worth mentioning here that Haji Shamim Afridi, the father of Amjad, was injured in a life attempt while his gunman was killed when some armed persons attacked him in his hometown two years back. He had rushed to PIMS, Islamabad, where he was provided with medical treatment.
Shamim was close associate of former slain governor Balochistan Nawab Akbar Bugti and was also an active member of his Jamhuri Watan Paty.