PESHAWAR: A police official was killed in the provincial capital on Thursday when suspected militants detonated an Improvised Explosive Device (IED).

“Unknown miscreants planted a bomb at a roadside in the jurisdiction of Faqirabad police station,” said police officials.

Police officials added that the objective was to target Qari Asghar, a local resident, over old enmity.

A police official, who was on duty outside the residence of a judge, was killed in the explosion while four other people were injured in the explosion.

In a separate attack a deputy superintendent of police, from the counter-terrorism department (CTD), was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Dayal road area of DI Khan.

The attackers escaped unharmed after the attack.

The province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been on the front line in Pakistan's war on terror, and has suffered from a low-intensity conflict for years.

The conflict has claimed thousands of lives during the last decade, and has been punctuated by some high-profile and high-visibility attacks.