Posted on 09/18/2026 7:22:40 AM PDT by BenLurkin
At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque in north-western Pakistan, according to a senior police official in Peshawar.
A gun battle is still ongoing between attackers and security forces at the mosque, near police headquarters, in the Kohat district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
One of the assailants has reportedly been killed, an officer says, and a rescue operation is under way.
In a statement, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari expressed "his best wishes for the swift recovery of those injured in the explosion."
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa police chief inspector general Zulfikar Hameed described the attack as a "suicide attack", according to Reuters news agency.
There has been no immediate claim of responsibility.
Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif also condemned the blast.
Militancy in Pakistan's border areas has risen sharply in recent months, targeting the military and police.
Islamabad says militants use safe haven in Afghanistan to train and plan attacks in Pakistan. Afghanistan's Taliban government denies the accusation and says militancy is Pakistan's domestic problem.
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About time they had a little taste of their own medicine
I thought it was against the Koran for a muzzie to kill a muzzie?...................
Not if one is an apostate.
Sunni versus Shia. A tale as old as Islam.
The 2 islams at each other again , now the counter attack
NGOs, Democrats and other pro-migration advocacies will be happy to import that into the U.S.
In PakiLand this is like two drug gangs having a street battle in downtown LA. Can’t wait until the newly re-armed Taliban (armed by BeijingBiden) starts their turf wars.
Didn’t george bush say that moozlums have the “religion of peace”. Apparently his judgement is so off that he should stick with painting mediocre pictures.
Give it a few hours, some idiot will blame Israel and/or Trump.
Anytime a mosque blows up an Angel gets their wings as far as I’m concerned.
Shia vs Sunni.
Hey I know, let’s import that to the Western World. Oops... too late.
After islam is done murdering everyone else, they will murder each other until the last guy is just ****ing his goat.
So before I was nine I had learned the basic canon of Arab life. It was me against my brother; me and my brother against our father; my family against my cousins and the clan; the clan against the tribe; and the tribe against the world. And all of us against the infidel.
Leon Uris - The Haj
Granted, he's talking about Arabs. But it applies to muzzies in general.
Mostly peaceful religion
The religion of pieces.
If it was a “suicide attack”, who’s still engaged in a gun battle?
I can’t think of a more disappointing President than Bush2. An effing liberal at the core. Can’t stand to see him or hear him. At least Obama showed what he stood for. Bush was just a wishy washy globalist, trained by his daddy to get us involved in foreign wars. A pathetic loser.
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