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ATTACKS claimed by the Pakistani Taliban killed three police officers while three assailants were also killed, the terrorist group and Pakistani authorities confirmed today.
Two men attacked and killed an officer in the capital Islamabad on Monday, both being killed themselves, while separate attacks in the Dir and North Waziristan districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan, killed two more police and one Taliban fighter.
Pakistani Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmed attended the Islamabad officer’s funeral today. The attacks underline the complexities involved in Pakistan’s accommodation with the newly victorious Taliban regime in Afghanistan.
Pakistan has long been accused of covert support for the Taliban north of the border and Prime Minister Imran Khan described the group’s conquest of Kabul following its defeat of the US occupation last August as “breaking the chains of slavery.”
He has since hosted regional summits on rebuilding the country attended by Russia and China but boycotted by Western powers, but Pakistan’s own Taliban is banned and mounts regular terror attacks.
