How a small Pakistani bomb disposal unit found themselves in the eye of a bitter, bomb-infested storm between the Taliban, the US and their country
PESHAWAR, Pakistan —
A policeman rushed to the bomb disposal unit to share the tip-off with inspector Hukam Khan, who was asleep in his shabby room. A group of policemen greeted Khan and pointed towards the IED. No sooner did Khan crouch over and start digging with his bare hands a loud bang slammed him to the ground. According to the Peshawar-based daily, The Frontier Post, about 52 bomb blasts ripped across the province as the Soviet occupation of the country neared its end in 1989. In fact, between 2007 and 2017, unit personnel had to literally tiptoe around death as they defused more than 7,000 devices across the country’s northwest region.
Most of these sophisticated device-making techniques were mastered by Al Qaeda bomb-makers in Afghanistan and later used in Pakistan by the Taliban to destabilise the country. Malik, who was working in Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency as a forensics expert in 2009 when he was summoned to head the Peshawar unit, says clearing the field of other explosive devices on that fateful day in 2013 was nevertheless a tough job, especially after losing an experienced colleague like Khan, who had served in the unit for 32 years.
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