IED event in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Saddar, Peshawar area, Pakistan on Mon 24th November 2025

Three Federal Constabulary (FCB) personnel and three terrorists, including one suicide bomber, were killed while 10 people, including three FC personnel, sustained injuries after the FCB’s headquarters came under attack in Saddar area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), on the morning of November 24 (today), reports Dawn. The attack occurred on one of the city’s busiest roads just after 8am. Video footage of the incident showed one terrorist, clad in a chaddar (Cotton bedsheet), approaching the gate and detonating himself. Seconds later, two other terrorists tried to enter the compound. “Initially, three militants tried to attack the headquarters. One terrorist blew himself up at the gate, while two others tried to enter the premises but were gunned down by FC personnel,” Peshawar Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Dr Mian Saeed Ahmad said while speaking to reporters. The Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed the responsibility of the attack, adds The Khorasan Diary. The attack was carried out by the “Khulfa-e-Rashideen Ishtishadi Kandak” - a suicide squad of the JuA.