JEE News reported on Wednesday that a grenade was thrown at the residence of former provincial minister and businessman Haji Muhammad Javed for the second time.
This was the second such attack on the former minister’s house in the last two days.
An official of the Capital City Police said that there was no report of any loss of life or property in the grenade attack on Javed’s house under construction in Gulbahar.
Senior police personnel reached the spot while bomb disposal experts collected evidence from the spot, the official said.
The house of a senior member of the Tablighi Jamaat was attacked with a grenade a few days ago. There was no loss of life or property in this incident either. Several months ago, his house was also attacked.
During the last few months, there have been several incidents of grenades being thrown at houses, rooms and factories in Peshawar and other districts of the province.
Sources said that most, if not all, of the victims were those who received extortion calls on WhatsApp numbers from unknown groups. Some incidents were not related to extortion.
A source said that most of the grenade attacks are carried out to scare the victims.
Calling a large number of industrialists, businessmen, politicians, contractors and other affluent people, there have been more home invasions in recent times.
With the increase in attacks, law and order is deteriorating in KP.
The law and order situation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has gone south over the past few weeks as threats and attacks on security forces as well as top political figures have increased.
According to a report published on Monday, police are on high alert across the province following a recent spike in attacks in areas including Peshawar, southern districts and Mardan region.
The publication quoted a source as saying: “Apart from the police, senior politicians have complained of receiving threats. Some of their homes have also come under grenade attack.
On Sunday, Awami National Party (ANP) provincial spokesperson Samar Bilor said that their provincial president Amil Wali Khan had received a call about a plan to assassinate him.
Bilor added that ‘Apart from Amil Wali Khan, Sardar Hussain Babak and others have also received threats while MPA Faisal Zeb’s house was attacked twice in the last few weeks’.
Apart from the attack on ANP MPA Faisal Zeb’s house in Shangla, in recent months a hand grenade was hurled at party senator Hidayatullah’s house in Peshawar.
In the recent spate of violence, politicians belonging to other political parties have either been attacked or threatened.
An official said that between Saturday and Sunday, a hand grenade was thrown at the house of former provincial minister Haji Muhammad Javed in Gulbahar Peshawar, causing no loss of life or property.
In Kohat, a hand grenade was hurled at the house of former federal minister Shehryar Afridi, while in Dera Ismail Khan, gunmen attacked the residence of PTI’s MPA Aaza Khan Gandapur, resulting in the death of a policeman. Really happened.
PTI MPA Malik Liaquat was also injured in an attack on his vehicle in Lower Dir in August, while four others, including his brother and nephew, lost their lives in the attack.
Businessmen and political activists have been receiving extortion calls for the past few months. Most of these incidents are not even reported to the police.
