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2022-03-10 India-Pakistan
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An ISIS suicide bomber who killed 64 people at a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan was an Afghan exile who returned home to train for the attack
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[PUBLISH.TWITTER]
The Taliban have pledged they will not allow Afghan soil to be used to plot attacks on other nations, but last month the UN Security Council said “terrorist groups enjoy greater freedom there than at any time in recent history.”
Two senior Pakistan police officials told AFP that the suicide bomber responsible for Friday’s Peshawar blast had prepared the attack in Afghanistan.
| That’d be the one in the Koocha Risaldar area, where the Shia of Peshawar congregate, where there were almost 250 casualties. |
It was claimed by ISIS, whose Islamic State-Khorasan affiliate has been active for years in both Pakistan and Afghanistan.
The officials said the attacker was an Afghan national in his 30s who moved to Pakistan with his family decades ago.
“The bomber went to Afghanistan, trained there and returned without informing his family,” one of the senior police officials told AFP.
"I'm baaaack!" *BOOM*
“Islamic State-Khorasan is becoming a strong threat for us, they are operating from Afghanistan but they have sleeping cells here,” he added.
Taliban officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Police said they had killed three “facilitators” of the attack in an overnight operation, and arrested 20 others suspected of involvement.
ISIS also claimed responsibility for what it said was a suicide blast on Tuesday that killed seven paramilitary troops near a site in southwestern Pakistan where the president had visited less than half an hour earlier. 
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