{"id":22315,"date":"2024-01-08T16:12:23","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T11:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=22315"},"modified":"2024-01-08T16:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T11:12:23","slug":"ttp-claims-responsibility-for-the-bajaur-attack-which-killed-six-and-injured-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/latest-news\/ttp-claims-responsibility-for-the-bajaur-attack-which-killed-six-and-injured-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"TTP claims responsibility for the Bajaur attack, which killed six and injured ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to TRT World, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), better known as the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a police van in Bajaur.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the attack killed at least six officers and injured ten more in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, an IED (improvised explosive device) exploded near the police station that was assigned to protect workers in an anti-polio immunization program.<\/p>\n<p>The blast took place in Mamond, a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on the Afghan border, according to police spokesman Kashif Zulfiquar.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that some of the wounded officers were in critical condition at a federal hospital. TRT reported that anti-polio activities in Pakistan are frequently marred by bloodshed, with terrorists frequently targeting polio personnel and police deployed to guard them, mistakenly claiming that vaccination campaigns are a Western scheme to sterilize youngsters.<\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Taliban claimed credit for the strike, which occurred only hours after officials launched the first anti-polio campaign of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/blast-hits-police-vehicle-in-tehsil-mamond-bajaur.html\">Blast hits police vehicle in Tehsil Mamond, Bajaur<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani Taliban, commonly known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan or TTP, is a different group but a close ally of the Afghan Taliban, which seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021 as US and NATO soldiers were preparing to leave the nation after 20 years of war.<\/p>\n<p>Many TTP officials and militants have sought refuge in Afghanistan after the Taliban&#8217;s takeover, emboldening the TTP to launch additional attacks against government troops. It has strained Pakistan&#8217;s relations with the Taliban administration in Kabul, which refuses to allow TTP to commit strikes in Pakistan from its soil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to TRT World, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), better known as the Pakistani Taliban, has claimed responsibility for a roadside bomb explosion that targeted a police van in Bajaur. According to reports, the attack killed at least six officers and injured ten more in the northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region. On Monday, an IED (improvised explosive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":22316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,9,21,2],"tags":[3317,7210,10229,3629],"class_list":["post-22315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-latest-news","category-news","category-pakistan","tag-bajaur-district","tag-blast","tag-terrorist","tag-ttp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}