{"id":311068,"date":"2023-02-01T13:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=311068"},"modified":"2023-02-01T13:30:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T08:30:59","slug":"ttp-attack-on-mianwali-police-station-repulsed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/ttp-attack-on-mianwali-police-station-repulsed\/","title":{"rendered":"TTP attack on Mianwali police station \u2018repulsed\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A day after a deadly suicide bombing in Peshawar claimed over 100 lives, a police station in Mianwali came under a gun attack by a group of heavily armed militants be\u00adlonging to banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakis\u00adtan (TTP) on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>However, police clai\u00admed late at night the attack had been repulsed. The attack is significant in that terrorists \u2014 who had so far targeted police stations and check posts in Khyber Pakhtun\u00adkhwa and areas bordering Afghanistan \u2014 have set their sights on a police station in Punjab for the first time since the resurgence of terrorism in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Punjab Inspector Gen\u00aderal of Police Dr Usman Anwar confirmed to Dawn in the early hours of Wed\u00adn\u00ade\u00adsday that armed attackers belonging to the ban\u00adned militant organisation, TTP, claimed the attack on the police station.<\/p>\n<p>He said police teams from three regions \u2014 Mianwali, Dera Ghazi Khan and Sargodha \u2014 besides Lahore police and Punjab CTD had reached Mianwali for a \u2018grand operation\u2019 against the TTP.<\/p>\n<p>According to social media reports, the attack started at around 9pm as militants unleashed heavy fire at Makkarwal police station using automatic weapons. 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