PESHAWAR, June 28: Locally-made bombs have been used in most of the recent terrorist attacks in the province, sources say. The sources said the terrorists did not have to transport such bombs as they could be manufactured in the cities where the attacks were carried out using certain material available locally explosives and detonators smuggled from Afghanistan.
They said the recent explosions in CD shops in Charsadda, Tank, Mardan and Peshawar had been caused by locally-made bombs.
However, they said, some of the explosions, such as the one on Jan 27 in the provincial capital that killed 22 people and another in a public meeting addressed by Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao in Charsadda on April 28 and the latest in Marhaba Hotel here on May 27, were caused by readymade bombs, mostly Russian-made.
“People need to be trained to identify bombs and explosives and defuse them, but this can backfire as the knowledge will also go to the perpetrators of crimes,” the sources said.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation of the United States has pledged to give equipment and training to law-enforcement personnel on modern lines to cope with the blasts.
