PESHAWAR, Jan 13: Terrorist attacks against them will boost the police and security forces' resolve to bring about peace instead of affecting it, said Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haider Khan Hoti on Friday.

'We'll continue our struggle to eliminate the menace of terrorism and not to accept any pressure from anti-state elements,' he told reporters after offering two policemen's funeral prayers inside the Malik Saad Shaheed police lines here.

The two had died in an attack on police checkpost in Sarband in the suburbs of Peshawar on Thursday night.

The chief minister said the government and people of the province won't overlook sacrifices of police and security personnel, who laid down their lives while confronting terrorists.

He said after the deadly attack, police and Frontier Constabulary destroyed some of the terrorists' hideouts and killed seven terrorists in a joint operation.

Mr Hoti said the incident showed that police were fully committed to countering terrorists but unfortunately, people were kidnapped and deprived of their weapons earlier in suchincidents.

He saluted serving policemen and those killed by terrorists on duty on behalf of the government and people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and said terrorist attacks were meant to weaken the resolve of FC and police but the 'evil agenda' failed.He said effective actions against terrorists groups would continue.

The chief minister also placed a floral wreath at the coffins of the two personnel and sympathised with their families.

Earlier, a vibrant contingent of police presented the guard of honour to the two.

Speaker provincial assembly Kiramatullah Chagharmati, senior provincial minister Bashir Bilour, chief secretary Ghulam Dastageer, IGP Akbar Khan Hoti, police higher ups, personnel and relatives of deceased were also in attendance.

Also in the day, he distributed cheques of financial assistance to children of two terrorist victims from Awami National Party's Bannu chapter, Mohammad Israel Khan and Attaur Rehman Khan, during a function here. He said sacrifices of the two ANP activists against terrorism would be long remembered as they laid down their lives for the protection of the motherland.