People and motorcyclists drive through Qissa Khwani market in the downtown of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan’s northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan, Friday, Oct.
Bajur served as a sanctuary for the Pakistani Taliban — known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan — until the area was cleared of militants in military operations in recent years.
Also on Saturday, a home-made bomb rigged to a parked motorcycle exploded near a market in the southwestern city of Quetta, wounding five people.
And in the southwestern Baluchistan province, two soldiers were killed Saturday in a shootout that erupted during a raid on suspected militants in the Hoshab area near the city of Turbat.