Eleven people have been killed in a car bomb attack in northwestern Pakistan. The dead are workers on their way to an army base under construction.
An explosive device attached to their vehicle exploded, said a government official in charge of the North Waziristan district, which borders Afghanistan. Acting Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar condemned the “senseless act of violence in the strongest possible terms”. It was “shocking” to hear of the “terrorist attack” that left “eleven innocent workers dead,” he wrote on the online service formerly known as Twitter.
Increase in the number of Islamically motivated attacks
Since the Taliban came to power in neighboring Afghanistan, attacks and assaults suspected of being inspired by Islamism have also increased sharply in Pakistan. The attacks by the Pakistani Taliban group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have recently mainly targeted police officers and other security forces. In January, a hit man associated with the Pakistani Taliban blew himself up inside a mosque at a police station in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing more than 80 police officers.
At the end of July, more than 40 people were killed and more than 100 others injured in a suicide bombing at an Islamist party event in northwestern Pakistan. The attack in the small town of Khar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province near the border with Afghanistan targeted an event organized by the Islamist party Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-F (JUI-F).
Source: Krone
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