THE bloodshed continues unabated. On Wednesday, at least 12 policemen were martyred in the line of duty in KP. Ten lives were lost in an ambush in Kohat while a police party was returning from a clearance operation, and two more were martyred in Swabi when a police patrol came under fire. Separately, an explosive-laden pickup slammed into the main gate of a police station in Dera Ismail Khan, but the attack was promptly repelled. Thankfully, no police casualties were reported in the latter incident. Still, a dozen lives lost in a single day and at least a dozen more injured and hospitalised is a........

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