PESHAWAR: A determined Pakistan has sought Afghan Taliban chief Haibuttallah Akhundzada‘s assist to rein within the outlawed Pakistani Taliban outfit accountable for a wave of terror assaults within the nation, together with the latest Peshawar mosque carnage that killed over 100 individuals, in keeping with a media report on Saturday.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, principally within the nation’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but in addition in Balochistan and the Punjab city of Mianwali, which borders the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Within the Peshawar mosque assault on Monday, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in the course of the afternoon prayers, killing 101 individuals and injuring greater than 200 others.
In the course of the Apex Committee assembly right here on Friday, Pakistan’s civil and army management determined to hunt Afghan Taliban chief Haibuttallah Akhundzada’s intervention to manage the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in keeping with The Categorical Tribune newspaper.
Pakistan’s inside minister Rana Sanaullah, who attended Friday’s assembly, mentioned the masterminds of the Peshawar Mosque assault might be in Afghanistan, and added that the federal authorities would increase this subject with their Afghan counterparts, the report mentioned.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday acknowledged the failure to avert the Peshawar carnage that killed over 100 individuals and known as for “nationwide unity” to deal with the menace.
“There’s a want for unity throughout the political spectrum. This act of terrorism managed to breach the safety examine submit and attain the mosque. We should always not really feel hesitant in admitting the details,” Sharif mentioned on the assembly.
In the meantime, Pakistani authorities claimed to have made an “vital breakthrough” in its probe into the Peshawar Mosque assault by figuring out the suicide bomber by means of his DNA samples.
Police mentioned the DNA take a look at was carried out and the investigators are attempting to hint the household of the bomber.
In November final yr, the TTP known as off an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the federal government in June 2022 and ordered its militants to hold out assaults on the safety forces.
The TTP, which is believed to have shut hyperlinks to al-Qaeda, has threatened to focus on high leaders of Prime Minister Sharif’s PML-N and international minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s PPP if the ruling coalition continued to implement strict measures towards the militants.
Pakistan hoped that the Afghan Taliban after coming to energy would cease using their soil towards Pakistan by expelling the TTP operatives however they’ve apparently refused to take action at the price of straining ties with Islamabad.
The TTP, arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007, known as off a ceasefire with the federal authorities and ordered its militants to stage terrorist assaults throughout the nation.
The group, which is believed to be near al-Qaeda, has been blamed for a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on army bases, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Lodge in Islamabad.
In 2014, the Pakistani Taliban stormed the Military Public Faculty (APS) within the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, killing at the very least 150 individuals, together with 131 college students.
Monday’s lethal assault has despatched shockwaves internationally and was extensively condemned.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, principally within the nation’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but in addition in Balochistan and the Punjab city of Mianwali, which borders the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Within the Peshawar mosque assault on Monday, a Taliban suicide bomber blew himself up in the course of the afternoon prayers, killing 101 individuals and injuring greater than 200 others.
In the course of the Apex Committee assembly right here on Friday, Pakistan’s civil and army management determined to hunt Afghan Taliban chief Haibuttallah Akhundzada’s intervention to manage the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), in keeping with The Categorical Tribune newspaper.
Pakistan’s inside minister Rana Sanaullah, who attended Friday’s assembly, mentioned the masterminds of the Peshawar Mosque assault might be in Afghanistan, and added that the federal authorities would increase this subject with their Afghan counterparts, the report mentioned.
Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday acknowledged the failure to avert the Peshawar carnage that killed over 100 individuals and known as for “nationwide unity” to deal with the menace.
“There’s a want for unity throughout the political spectrum. This act of terrorism managed to breach the safety examine submit and attain the mosque. We should always not really feel hesitant in admitting the details,” Sharif mentioned on the assembly.
In the meantime, Pakistani authorities claimed to have made an “vital breakthrough” in its probe into the Peshawar Mosque assault by figuring out the suicide bomber by means of his DNA samples.
Police mentioned the DNA take a look at was carried out and the investigators are attempting to hint the household of the bomber.
In November final yr, the TTP known as off an indefinite ceasefire agreed with the federal government in June 2022 and ordered its militants to hold out assaults on the safety forces.
The TTP, which is believed to have shut hyperlinks to al-Qaeda, has threatened to focus on high leaders of Prime Minister Sharif’s PML-N and international minister Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s PPP if the ruling coalition continued to implement strict measures towards the militants.
Pakistan hoped that the Afghan Taliban after coming to energy would cease using their soil towards Pakistan by expelling the TTP operatives however they’ve apparently refused to take action at the price of straining ties with Islamabad.
The TTP, arrange as an umbrella group of a number of militant outfits in 2007, known as off a ceasefire with the federal authorities and ordered its militants to stage terrorist assaults throughout the nation.
The group, which is believed to be near al-Qaeda, has been blamed for a number of lethal assaults throughout Pakistan, together with an assault on military headquarters in 2009, assaults on army bases, and the 2008 bombing of the Marriott Lodge in Islamabad.
In 2014, the Pakistani Taliban stormed the Military Public Faculty (APS) within the northwestern metropolis of Peshawar, killing at the very least 150 individuals, together with 131 college students.
Monday’s lethal assault has despatched shockwaves internationally and was extensively condemned.