January 2017 Parachinar bombing
On 21 January 2017, a bomb was detonated at a vegetable market in Parachinar, in the Kurram Valley of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan.[5][6] Parachinar is the administrative headquarters of the Kurram Agency near the Afghan border.[10] Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Bajwa visited Parachinar and paid a visit to the injured of the bomb blast in Agency Headquarters Hospital.General Bajwa also announced plans to construct an Army Public School (APS) in Parachinar to support education of the local children.[11][12] Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Alami and the Pakistani Taliban splinter Shehryar Mehsud group both separately issued a joint claim of responsibility.