Suicide bombing kills 14 at anti-militant protest in Pakistan's Swat Valley

A suicide bomber killed at least 14 people outside a Swat Valley police station on August 2, targeting a crowd protesting rising violence in northwestern Pakistan. No group has claimed responsibility; suspicion falls on the TTP, which abandoned its ceasefire with Islamabad in late 2022. Attacks across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have since become routine, eroding the post-2009 stabilization narrative.