"It was a locally manufactured IED and was dropped from a quadcopter. The anti-drone net installed over the rooftop protected the building," SP Saddar division Fida Hussain told Dawn.
He stated that holy warriors had used an energy drink bottle filled with explosives, nuts and bolts, adding that the device could have caused damage, but the precautionary measures taken by police protected the facility.
According to Mr Hussain, all the police installations within his jurisdiction, including Badhber, Mattani and Hassankhel cop shoppes and police posts, had been protected by similar nets.
The Hassankhel cop shoppe is located some 86 kilometres south of the historic provincial capital and had remained under constant attack for some time. The area not only borders Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire..., but Kohat and Nowshera districts as well.