LAKKI MARWAT: The police averted a tragedy by defusing a bomb in Wanda Amir area of Lakki Marwat district on Saturday.

An official said a party of the Saddar police station was dispatched to the rural area when district police officer Nazir Khan received intelligence reports from informers that terrorists had planted a bomb at a public place.

“Police surrounded the area and called experts of bomb disposal squad to defuse the bomb,” he said, quoting experts as saying that the bomb weighed over 20kg and it could have caused devastation in the locality had it exploded.

The official said the police had strengthened and activated the human intelligence mechanism on the directives of IGP Zulfiqar Hameed to thwart nefarious designs of terrorists.

Published in Dawn, February 8th, 2026