Pakistani Taliban claim multiple overnight attacks on police

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022

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Islamabad – Pakistan Taliban targets police in several overnight attacks in the capital, Islamabad, and northwest of the country. Three police officers and three attackers were killed in a shootout, the police and a militant spokesman on Tuesday.

The first attack took place in Islamabad on Monday night, raising fears that rebels had a presence in one of the safest cities in the country. An officer and two attackers were killed in the attack.

Then, two police officers were killed in attacks in the district of Dir and North Waziristan in Khyber Province Pakhtunkhwa, which borders Afghanistan, said the authorities.

Mohammad Khurasani, Tehrik-e-Taliban spokesman who was banned by Pakistan when Pakistan Taliban was known, posted a claim of group responsibility on Twitter. He said one of the fighters died in attacks in Northwest Bajur Regency.

Pakistan’s interior minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, attended the cemetery on Tuesday police officer who was killed in Islamabad. Ahmed said the two militants who were killed involved in the attack were identified.

Although militants often target security forces in Pakistan, the country’s capital has been largely peaceful in recent years. The Pakistani Taliban, who has been brave since the Afghan Taliban seizes power on the border in Afghanistan, warns Tuesday, they can do more attacks on Pakistani security forces in the near future.

Then, a military statement said Pakistani security forces in a Tuesday operation in the northwestern district of Waziristan killed two militants. It was said that a guerrilla was killed was involved in the past attack on security forces, kidnapping for ransom and targeted murder.