While addressing a press conference, the KP police IG disclosed that the suicide bomber was in a police uniform when he entered the mosque and policemen at the entrance of the Police Lines did not check him because they thought he was one of their own.
He affirmed that the police were close to unearthing the terror network behind the Peshawar blast.
The KP police IG rebuffed all the conspiracies that emerged regarding the suicide attack and pleaded to the people not to "provoke his force".
On Jan 30, a suicide bomber exploded inside a mosque in Peshawar’s Police Lines area, killing at least 100 people while injuring dozens of others. The suicide blast was so intense that it resulted in the collapse of the roof of the mosque.
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The personnel of KP police on Wednesday took to streets against the fresh wave of terror, and demanded the government to take adequate steps to eliminate it.
The men gathered in large numbers protesting against Peshawar blast and reportedly chanted slogans of action against ‘known terrorists’.
The attacker was present in the front row during Zuhr prayers when he exploded himself, killing 101 of the faithful and injuring at least 59, who are being treated at the Lady Reading Hospital of Peshawar.
A day earlier, President Arif Alvi had summoned a joint session of the Parliament on February 8, as lawmakers asked for holding the crucial talk amid the deadly bombing in Peshawar that claimed 100 lives.
“The president has called the joint sitting of the parliament at 3pm on Feb 8 (Wednesday) under Articles 48(1) and 54(1) of the Constitution,” according to an official announcement issued by the presidency.
The government would also take up crucial bills on the occasion, including the ICT LG (Amendment) Bill, 2022, reports suggest.
Senators had asked that the government to summon the session in view of the terror incidents, inflation and the recent wheat flour crisis.
They had called for developing a plan to fight terrorism and finding out a way to deal with the issue.
On the same day, Defence Minister Khawaja Asif hinted at an operation against terrorism, stressing the need for a national consensus in this regard.
He had highlighted that any negotiations with “these people” in the past had failed to yield results.
Analysts agree that a change in the country’s Afghan policy is necessary to begin eliminating terrorism. In the quest for strategic depth in Afghanistan, Pakistan has compromised on its own strategic depth, according to Mohsin Dawar, MNA from North Waziristan and NDM Central Chairman.
“After the Afghanistan takeover, in negotiations with the Haqqani Network and TTP, assurances were given to them that the FATA merger would be undone. The narrative build here was that they would lay down their arms and they would follow the law,” reported Aaj News. “I see this as an Afghanistan action replay,” he added.