PESHAWAR
\nAnother hand grenade was hurled at the residence of former provincial minister and businessman Haji Mohammad Javed for the second time, Gulbahar police informed on Wednesday.
\n\u201cThis was the second attack of its kind on the house of the former minister in the last two days\u201d, said an official of the capital city police. He said there was no casualty or damage reported in a grenade attack on Javed\u2019s house, which is under construction in Gulbahar. The official said senior police officials have visited the site of the incident while the bomb disposal experts collected evidence from the spot.
\nThe Tablighi Jamaat\u2019s senior member\u2019s house was attacked with a grenade a couple of days back. There was no casualty or damage in that incident also. His house was also attacked many months back.
\nIt merits a mention here that there have been a number of incidents in the last few months in which grenades were lobbed into houses, hujras and factories in Peshawar and other districts of the province. Not all but most of the victims were those who had received calls for extortion on WhatsApp numbers from unknown groups. Some incidents were not related to extortion.
\nAfter calls to a large number of industrialists, traders, politicians, contractors and other well-off people, houses are being attacked more frequently for the past some time.
\nAccording to a media report, the police are on high alert across the province after the recent spike in attacks in areas including Peshawar, southern districts, and the Mardan region.
\nOn Sunday last, the provincial spokesperson of the Awami National Party (ANP) Samar Bilour said that their provincial president Aimal Wali Khan had received a call about a plan of attack on his life. \u201cApart from Aimal Wali Khan, Sardar Hussain Babak and others have received threats as well while the house of MPA Faisal Zeb was attacked twice in the last few weeks,\u201d Bilour added.
\nA hand grenade was thrown at former federal minister Shehryar Afridi\u2019s house in Kohat, while PTI MPA Aghaz Khan Gandapur\u2019s residence was attacked by armed men in Dera Ismail Khan, leaving one policeman dead, some time back.
\nApart from the attack on the house of ANP MPA Faisal Zeb in Shangla, a grenade was hurled at the house of party Senator Hidayatullah in Peshawar in recent months.
\nPTI MPA Malik Liaqat was also wounded in an attack on his vehicle in Lower Dir in August, while four others, including his brother and nephew, lost their lives in the attack.
\nBusinessmen and political workers have been receiving extortion calls in the past few months. The majority of these incidents were not even reported to the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
PESHAWAR Another hand grenade was hurled at the residence of former provincial minister and businessman Haji Mohammad Javed for the second time, Gulbahar police informed on Wednesday. \u201cThis was the second attack of its kind on the house of the former minister in the last two days\u201d, said an official of the capital city police. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-301184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-top-news"},"yoast_head":"\n