Mallika Dureja
A provincial source told AFP that at least seven people were murdered, including three suicide attackers, when Pakistan Taliban insurgents assaulted a police compound in the port city of Karachi on Friday.
“Four persons were murdered in the attack, including two police officers, a ranger, and a sanitation worker,” Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui told AFP, adding, “The operation was successful in eliminating all three terrorists.”
“Four persons were murdered in the attack, including two police officers, a ranger, and a sanitation worker,” Sindh government spokesperson Murtaza Wahab Siddiqui told AFP, adding, “The operation was successful in eliminating all three terrorists.”
In a WhatsApp message to AFP, a representative for Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility.
“Our Mujahideen martyrs have attacked the police station in Karachi. Additional specifics will follow, “he stated.
“Our magnificent nation is resolved to permanently eradicate this evil.”
– “General danger” –
Previously, Sindh’s chief minister, Syed Murad Ali Shah, told ARY news that security personnel were concentrating on a key structure captured by the militants.
“It is a five-story structure. Our law enforcement officers and rangers have cleared the first three stories and are approaching the fourth. The terrorists remain within the structure.”
A nearby AFP reporter observed dozens of ambulances and security vehicles arriving at the compound’s entrance.
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Since the Taliban won control of neighbouring Afghanistan in August 2021, low-level militancy, which targets security checkpoints in the north and west, has progressively increased.
Karachi, the metropolis of the southern Sindh province, has been attacked over the years by separatists from Balochistan as well as the Pakistan Taliban and the local chapter of the Islamic State.
Authorities suspected a Pakistan Taliban group for the January attack on a mosque within a police complex in Peshawar, which killed more than eighty cops.
Tehreek-e-Taliban The Taliban of Afghanistan and Pakistan share a shared ancestry and set of values.
After the mosque incident, provinces around the nation announced that they were on high alert, with increased checkpoints and additional security troops deployed.
“There is a general threat throughout the country, but there was no specific threat to this location,” stated Interior Minister Sanaullah in reference to Friday’s incident in Karachi.
Karachi is the largest city in Pakistan, a sprawling metropolis of over 20 million inhabitants that serves as the country’s commercial hub at its Arabian Sea port.
Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah stated on Samaa TV that the assailants were “terrorists… armed with grenades and other weapons” and that they fired a rocket at a gate.
Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif vowed to end the violence on Friday.
“Pakistan will not only eradicate terrorism, but will also bring terrorists to trial and execute them,” he tweeted.
