Maulana Fazlullah leader TTP photographed recently in funeral prayers
Tehreek- e- Taliban TTP (central, Maulana Fazlullah group) claim responsibility for an attack on the night of 2nd/ 3rd Oct around midnight where TTP members beheaded Special Forces officer Muhibbullah son of Sakhi Jaan at his home in Median, Swat. There were “no other deaths in the house, only he was targeted.”
The message came via the official TTP social media contact (Umar Media) as Shahidullah Shahid (main spokesperson) was said to be “away from here and busy, after a week he will be here.”
TTP Central also claimed responsibility for Peshawar coach blast on 2nd October, (Bazid Khel area on Kohat Road) describing it as an attack on a “shia” van “travelling from Peshawar to Khurram tribe” and raising concerns of a sectarian assault. The statement read,
“on 2nd and 3rd of October at midnight the TTPs members cut the head of Pakistani special force solder when he was sleeping in his home.
TTP accepts the responsibility for attack.
And also Peshawar blast on shia van killing (?) 13 and injured 7 on 2nd of October”
DAWN media had reported earlier that at least seven people were killed and eleven injured in the explosion,
“police said explosives left in two bags went off in the Parachinar-bound coach on Kohat Road.
Capital City Police Officer Ejaz Khan told Dawn that a man had placed the bags in the rear of the vehicle. He asked the driver to wait for him that he was coming back with women accompanying him.
An officer of the bomb disposal squad said the bags contained over 5kg of explosives”
Three of the bodies were said to be “burnt beyond recognition”. The dead and injured were taken to Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar and the deceased named in Dawn as “Jamil Hussain of the Frontier Constabulary, passerby Fazal Khan of Bazidkhel, security guard Sadaqat Ali, who was coming from Karachi to celebrate Eid with family, and Imtiaz Hussain.”
The News reported that Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Pervaiz Khattak was said to have strongly condemned the blast, ordered an urgent inquiry and that compensation of Rs500,000 each for the dead and Rs200,000 each for injured would be awarded under the Shuhada Package.
With regard to the beheading of the Special Forces officer Muhibbullah son of Saaki Jaan, whose “head was cut off by knife” I inquired, how do TTP train to decapitate people, do they practice on animals? The reply was, “No. This is only the reaction to their actions killing our beloved ones and innocent people and destroying our houses, so only reaction. This is the way they train.” There may be restrictions on reporting in Pakistan as this incident has not appeared in the news to date.
In June this year Pakistan military launched operation Zarb -e-Asb in North Waziristan to curb militancy after peace talks failed and following an attack by insurgents at Karachi airport which left 28 dead including 10 attackers. There were fears of retaliation attacks in response to the actions of the military. TTP Central recently claimed responsibility for a blast on a Frontier Corps convoy near to Peshawar Press Club and more attacks are expected.
Link
“Peshawar: Taliban TTP Central claim responsibility for blast on Frontier Corps Convoy”
Carol Anne Grayson is an independent writer/researcher on global health/human rights and is Executive Producer of the Oscar nominated, Incident in New Baghdad . She is a Registered Mental Nurse with a Masters in Gender Culture and Development. Carol was awarded the ESRC, Michael Young Prize for Research 2009, and the COTT ‘Action = Life’ Human Rights Award’ for “upholding truth and justice”. She is also a survivor of US “collateral damage”.
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