At least seven policemen were wounded on Saturday when a Taliban militant commander blew himself up in Peshawar, police said. Irfan Ullah, from the lawless town of Darra Adam Khel, struck when police raided his hideout in Matni, an area in the outskirts of Peshawar, in country's north-west, senior police official Mohammad Karim Khan said.
"Irfan Ullah blew himself up when police stormed into a hideout to arrest him," Khan told AFP. The police had raided several suspected hideouts of Taliban militants in Matni on a tip-off when the suicide bombing took place, he added. "Two of the wounded policemen were in critical condition," Khan said. Troops launched an air and ground offensive against Taliban militants in Darra Adam Khel two years ago after they occupied a key tunnel linking Peshawar with north-western town of Kohat.