Jamaat
ul Ahraar (JuA) supposedly linked to the Afghanistan based Tehreek e
Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the attack in Quetta on Monday August
8, 2016. More than seventy were killed and over a hundred injured as a
suicide bomber targeted a crowd of mostly lawyers outside the Civil
Hospital where they had gathered over the death of a lawyer killed in a
shooting attack earlier. The last major attack claimed by the JuA was an
attack in a Lahore park on Easter Day when a large crowd was
celebrating. More than seventy two were killed in the attack. While the
modus operandi as regards target selection, method of attack and impact
expectation have similarities it is by no means certain that the JuA
actually carried out the attack or is simply claiming it. According to
the US military commander in Afghanistan the TTP is linked to the
Islamic State (IS) and the TTP has linkages to militant elements in
Pakistan from where it relocated to Afghanistan after the Pakistan
military’s Operation Zarb e Azb to clear the FATA belt.Read Full Article: The Quetta Attack
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