The attacks occurred at a police station in Tank District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
[3] In a statement, Shah stated, "Our force on guard engaged them in a gun battle for hours,".
[4] On the same day, the Pakistani Taliban launched an attack on a Pakistani army base near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, with 2 security personnel killed in an attack in the Khyber District, and another 7 injured.
There has been a surge in terror attacks in Pakistan in 2023 amid a resurgence of the Pakistani Taliban and heightened tensions between Afghanistan and Pakistan, with the Pakistani government accusing Afghanistan of harboring militants and with militants using Afghan territory to launch attacks, although the Afghan government denies this.
[6][7] The attack also comes amidst the mass deportation of Afghans by the Pakistani government.