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Bomb defused near flyover in Peshawar

Dawn.com Published January 23, 2014
A technician from Pakistan's top bomb disposal unit walks during a bomb search operation in Peshawar October 2, 2013. Twelve years into the war on militancy, Pakistan's police are chronically under-funded. This year's federal budget gave the military about $6 billion and the police $686 million, a lopsided allocation mirrored in the disbursement of foreign aid. While the United States has given Pakistan about $30 billion since 2001, the police have got a tiny fraction compared with the military. A little of that re
A technician from Pakistan's top bomb disposal unit walks during a bomb search operation in Peshawar October 2, 2013. Twelve years into the war on militancy, Pakistan's police are chronically under-funded. This year's federal budget gave the military about $6 billion and the police $686 million, a lopsided allocation mirrored in the disbursement of foreign aid. While the United States has given Pakistan about $30 billion since 2001, the police have got a tiny fraction compared with the military. A little of that re

PESHAWAR: The Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) on Thursday defused a five-kilogram bomb planted near an under-contrsuction flyover on Peshawar's Charsadda road, DawnNews reported.

A police source said that the BDS was called in after information of a bomb was received.

Additional contingents of security and rescue teams had also reached the site.

The disposal squad reached the spot and defused the explosive device which was fitted with a timer device and weighed five kilograms, the source added.

The area was cordoned off as a probe into the incident went underway.

Peshawar is the capital city of the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

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