The injured were shifted to different hospitals including Mardan, Charsadda and Peshawar for treatment, where the conditions of several injured is stated to be critical. Imran was elected from the provincial assembly constituency PK-27 Mardan as independent candidate. He later jointed Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf (PTI). The local chapter of the party was critical of his joining of PTI.
Khyber Pakhtunkhawa Governor Engineer Shaukatullah has strongly condemned the suicide attack and expressed his deep shock and sorrow over the loss of innocent precious lives. The governor described the killing of MPA Imran Mohmand as a highly tragic loss to the democratic institutions. He said the sacrifices will always be remembered with great respect. Such inhuman acts of terrorism and extremism, he added, are indeed shocking for every conscious citizen and deserved to be condemned by all.
Expressing his deep sympathies with the members of the bereaved families, the Governor prayed for the eternal peace of the departed souls. Meanwhile, a spokesman of the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa government and Minister for Health, Shaukat Ali Yousafzai also expressed deep grief and sorrow over the death of PTI MPA Imran Khan and termed it a national tragedy.
Talking to media, Shaukat Ali Yousafzai said they were working to curb the bloodshed in the terrorism affected province and wanted open heartedly to talk to all the warring factions for the sake of peace and normalcy in the Khyber Pakhtunkhawa in general and country in particular. He said the war on terror was not their but it had been enforced on them and they wanted to get rid of war of others. He said if there was PTI government in the centre they would have announced separation from the said war on their first day of office.