PESHAWAR:
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Ok-P) Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) on Friday printed that the mastermind in the back of the police traces mosque suicide bomb attack has been traced and showed {that a} faction of the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was once in the back of it.
Additional IG CTD Shaukat Abbas and DIG CTD Sohail Khalid mentioned that the attack was once deliberate in Afghanistan and {that a} 2d suicide bomber was once additionally ready to hold out the attack had the primary one failed.
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Earlier in February, the TTP had claimed duty for the worst terror attack to strike the rustic in years, taking a minimum of 84 lives.
A joint investigation workforce (JIT) probing into the incident had targeted the investigation on learning how the bomber breached the safety in Peshawar’s ‘Red Zone’ which properties the workplaces of 8 devices of the law-enforcement forces, together with the police.
A senior provincial police legitimate had informed AFP on situation of anonymity that a minimum of 23 suspects were detained, including that a few of them have been from Peshawar town and the within reach former Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), which has now been merged with the Ok-P province.
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In a press convention on Friday, AIG Abbas mentioned that the suicide bomber were recognized with the assistance of some 300 cameras which aided in tracing his handler and the important thing mastermind in the back of the attack.
The handler has been recognized as Ghaffar alias Suleman whilst the suicide bomber’s title was once Qari and he belonged to Mohmand Agency.
During the click convention, it was once additionally printed that the 2 were in touch previous to the attack and that each, Qari and the backup attacker, had gained their coaching in Kunduz, a town in northern Afghanistan.
The CTD officers vowed to catch all perpetrators and convey them to justice.
