A suicide bomber killed at least 14 people, including police officers, and wounded 18 others at the Kabal police station in Pakistan's Swat Valley (a mountainous region in northwestern Pakistan, once a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban) on Sunday. The attacker detonated explosives after officers tried to stop and search him at the station's entrance, striking as hundreds of residents were holding a nearby public demonstration against the very wave of terrorism plaguing the area. The attack underscores a sharp escalation in militancy across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, where terrorism-related deaths more than doubled between June and July 2026, according to security analysts — with no group having yet claimed responsibility for this latest assault.