‘One eye on the barrel, the other on the sky’: How police in Bannu are dealing with evolving militant tactics

‘One eye on the barrel, the other on the sky’: How police in Bannu are dealing with evolving militant tactics

For nearly five months since June, police in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s southern Bannu district have battled not just militants on the ground, but have also had to fend off enemy attacks from the sky. “One eye on the barrel of the gun and another on the sky,” a senior police officer in Bannu remarked. For months, militants from the adjoining tribal areas launched multiple armed quadcopter sorties to try to attack police posts and police stations. “Fif…