A police constable was shot dead near his home in Lakki Marwat, adding to the long and ugly run of attacks targeting law enforcement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police said the shooting took place near the Balkhi Koroona area along the bypass stretch of the Peshawar-Karachi Highway, within the limits of Ghaznikhel police station.
According to officials quoted in local reports, the victim, Constable Habibur Rehman, was returning home from the police lines when unidentified gunmen opened fire on him. He was killed on the spot, and the attackers managed to flee.
The killing, though brief in execution, lands in a district that has barely had room to breathe. Lakki Marwat has been under persistent pressure from militant violence and targeted assaults on police, with officers in the area repeatedly coming under fire on patrol, at posts and, increasingly, in places that should feel ordinary and safe.
That wider pattern has only hardened in recent months. In March 2026, a blast near a police vehicle in Lakki Marwat killed seven policemen, including a station house officer, in one of the deadliest recent attacks in the district. Separate reporting from the area has also documented armed assaults on patrols and police positions, underscoring how exposed local officers remain.
For residents of southern KP, none of this feels isolated anymore. A constable heading home, a patrol moving through town, a vehicle on routine duty — all of it now sits inside a security climate that has turned deeply fragile. The latest shooting fits that grim pattern: targeted, swift, and meant to send a message well beyond a single victim.
No immediate claim of responsibility was noted in the reports matched for this incident, and authorities had not publicly detailed arrests at the time of the coverage .
