In a cowardly and failed attempt to overrun a security post, terrorists of Fitna-e-Hindustan, backed by their Afghan handlers, launched a vehicle-borne suicide bomb (VBIED) attack on Kandawa Post along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border.
The terrorists detonated the explosive-laden vehicle outside the post perimeter, followed by intense RPG-7 and automatic weapons fire in a desperate attempt to storm the checkpost.
Alert security troops at the post responded immediately with heavy retaliatory fire, repulsed the assault, and hit multiple terrorists, forcing the attackers to flee. A sanitization operation is currently underway in the area to hunt down the remaining fleeing terrorists.
Because the suicide vehicle detonated outside the perimeter, the powerful blast destroyed several nearby civilian homes, martyring three innocent local residents — one man and two women.
Frontier Corps (FC) troops are currently conducting rescue operations on the ground, evacuating the injured and assisting the affected local families.
Kandawa Post, located in the sensitive frontier region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa near the tribal districts, is a key forward outpost maintained by security forces to stop cross-border infiltration by Afghan-based terrorists.
Security sources confirm the attack bears the clear fingerprints of Fitna-e-Hindustan, the Indian-sponsored terror network operating from Afghan soil to target Pakistan’s forces and innocent civilians.
Despite the failure of the attack, the terrorists once again proved their cowardice by targeting innocent civilians who had nothing to do with the fight.
