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Peshawar, Oct. 13: The Pakistani Taliban on Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing carried out by a teenage boy in northwest Shangla district, which killed 45 people at a busy market.
According to officials, a teenager was wearing a suicide vest and threw himself at a military convoy passing through a Alpuri town on Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have killed 125 people in Pakistan in eight days, the officials said.
We claim the responsibility for the Shangla suicide attack. This is revenge for our martyrs, said Azam Tariq, Taliban spokesman. He added: This is part of the series of attacks that we are carrying out. Wait and see more.
The feared Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group has vowed to avenge the death of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US missile strike in the lawless northwest tribal region of South Waziristan on August 5.
The Islamist extremist group has already claimed a weekend raid on Pakistans Army headquarters, when gunmen took 42 hostages in a brazen siege ending on Sunday with nine militants, 11 soldiers and three hostages killed.
Insurgents said attacks would continue until military operations against their strongholds came to an end.
Security forces marched into Swat valley which borders Shangla in April this year, after Taliban insurgents extended their grip on the area and advanced to with 100 km of Islamabad.
The government and military officials are now claiming success in the operation, and have vowed to take the anti-Taliban offensive into South Waziristan, the seat of the TTP and a rugged area outside direct government control.
Analysts say a spike in attacks which include a suicide car bomb on Friday killing 52 people in Peshawar city are being carried out by militants keen to deter any advance into their sanctuaries along the Afghan border.
Pakistan fighter jets on Tuesday bombed the region killing six suspected militants, part of a months-long campaign the military says aims to soften-up the area ahead of an offensive by ground troops.
13-yr-old kills 45 in Pak | Deccan Chronicle
According to officials, a teenager was wearing a suicide vest and threw himself at a military convoy passing through a Alpuri town on Monday, the latest in a wave of attacks that have killed 125 people in Pakistan in eight days, the officials said.
We claim the responsibility for the Shangla suicide attack. This is revenge for our martyrs, said Azam Tariq, Taliban spokesman. He added: This is part of the series of attacks that we are carrying out. Wait and see more.
The feared Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) group has vowed to avenge the death of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US missile strike in the lawless northwest tribal region of South Waziristan on August 5.
The Islamist extremist group has already claimed a weekend raid on Pakistans Army headquarters, when gunmen took 42 hostages in a brazen siege ending on Sunday with nine militants, 11 soldiers and three hostages killed.
Insurgents said attacks would continue until military operations against their strongholds came to an end.
Security forces marched into Swat valley which borders Shangla in April this year, after Taliban insurgents extended their grip on the area and advanced to with 100 km of Islamabad.
The government and military officials are now claiming success in the operation, and have vowed to take the anti-Taliban offensive into South Waziristan, the seat of the TTP and a rugged area outside direct government control.
Analysts say a spike in attacks which include a suicide car bomb on Friday killing 52 people in Peshawar city are being carried out by militants keen to deter any advance into their sanctuaries along the Afghan border.
Pakistan fighter jets on Tuesday bombed the region killing six suspected militants, part of a months-long campaign the military says aims to soften-up the area ahead of an offensive by ground troops.
13-yr-old kills 45 in Pak | Deccan Chronicle
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