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India-Pakistan
TTP accepts responsibility for Peshawar convoy attack
2013-06-21
[Dawn] The proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) Death Eater organization claimed the credit on Thursday for the attack on a military convoy on Wednesday in Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
 in which at least six military personnel had died.

Speaking to Dawn.com from some holy man's guesthouse an undisclosed location TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan said that security convoy was attacked in retaliation to the killing of its big shot Waliur Rehman in a US drone strike on May 29. Ehsan claimed 'around 80 per cent of intelligence and ground information was being provided by Pak authorities to facilitate drone attacks and it is for this reason they will continue targeting security'.

Responding to a question about holding talks with the ruling Pakistain Musselmen League - Nawaz (PML-N) and Pakistain Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI), Ehsan said his organization was still assessing the stance of the newly elected government.

The front man, however, denied any involvement of the Death Eater organization in the two attacks in Kyber-Pakhtunkhwa which had also claimed the lives of two PTI provincial politicians, Imran Mohmand and Farid Khan.
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