DI Khan Attack: FIR Filed Against Unidentified Bombers

The first information report of the DIG attack was filed on Wednesday at the Counter Terrorism Department police station, DI Khan Region I in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The report named unidentified members of the outlawed TTP and their mastermind as the suspects behind the attack.

The FIR invoked Section 7ATA (Punishment for acts of terrorism) and Section 302 (Punishment of qatl-i-amd), Section 324 (Attempt to commit qatl-i-amd), and Section 353 (Assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty).

The report also invoked Section 3 (Punishment of offences committed beyond, but which by law may be tried within Pakistan), Section 4 (Extension of Code to extra-territorial offences), Section 5 (Certain laws not to be affected by this Act), Section 148 (Rioting, armed with deadly weapon), Section 149 (Every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), and Section 427 (Mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of the Pakistan Penal Code.

In the deadliest incident, at least 25 soldiers were martyred while 27 terrorists were killed in three different gun battles, one of which followed a massive suicide attack on December 12.