In Pakistan, the police say that gunmen shot at customs officials in Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing at least two people and injuring three others.

The police said on Sunday, April 21, that the customs officials were sitting at the checkpoint when armed men attacked them.

So far, no group has claimed to have carried out this attack, but the Pakistani Taliban Movement or TTP has claimed to have attacked Pakistani security and government officials before.

Pakistani officials say that since the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan, TTP attacks have increased in this country and claim that the leaders of this group have safe hiding centers in Afghanistan and organize attacks from there.

But the Taliban rejects these claims of Islamabad and has repeatedly emphasized that they will not allow anyone to use the territory of Afghanistan against another country.

In the report of a research center which was published on the 1st of this April, it is said that in the first three months of this year, 430 people were killed in terrorist attacks and counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan. Also included.

According to the report of the Security Studies and Research Center in Islamabad, 281 civilians and members of the security forces were among the dead.

Most of these attacks took place in the states of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan. According to the report, 92 percent of such incidents took place in these two states.

The report said that 178 people were killed in terrorist attacks in the last three months in Balochistan alone.

Despite the fact that many attacks on Pakistani security forces and civilians are blamed on the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), Baloch separatists, the Islamic State or ISIS-Khorasan branch and other armed groups are also active in this country. They attack late.