by Jamil Bhatti
ISLAMABAD, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Despite stepped-up anti-terror efforts by the Pakistani government and security departments, the country is still menaced by terrorism as militants are continuously attacking different targets since last week.
On Tuesday, a suicide attack at a court compound in the countrys northwest district of Charsadda is the latest of the recent wave, which killed at least six civilians, including a lawyer, and left over 25 others injured as well as five policemen, local police said.
District police officer Sohail Khalid said that three suicide attackers hurled hand grenades and opened fire at police guards attempting to enter into the sub-district court in Tangi area of Charsadda, but policemen foiled the attempt by killing two of them, while the third one exploded his jacket.
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a breakaway fraction of Pakistani Taliban, claimed the attack, marking the fourth suicide strike by the terrorist outfit since Feb. 13, 2017.
During last week, seven bomb attacks killed at least 119 people and injured nearly 400 others in different areas of Pakistan.
On Feb. 16, a suicide bomber attacked around 800 people when they were performing ritual of Sufi dancing inside a shrine in Sehwan area in southern Sindh Province. The blast, which was claimed by Islamic State, killed 90 people and left over 350 others injured.
On Monday last week, a suicide blast hit a police party near a rally closed to Punjab province assembly building in Lahore city and killed 14 people and injured 87 others.
Following the last week carnage, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif vowed to take the war on terror to a logical end and authorized the security forces to launch operations to crush the terrorism.
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