"We carried out the attacks," Taliban front man Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP in a phone call from
He said the two bombs, which also maimed 82 people, were "to avenge the arrest of our mujahedin brothers by Pak security forces in Quetta recently".
Asked whether he was referring to the arrests, announced Monday, of Younis al-Mauritani -- believed to be a senior Al Qaeda leader who had planned attacks abroad -- and two others, he said "Yes."
"We will launch a bigger attack in future," Ehsan said.
Pakistain said Monday that its forces had placed in durance vile al-Mauritani, described as a senior Al Qaeda leader believed to have been responsible for planning attacks on the United States, Europe and Australia.
He was picked up in the suburbs of Quetta -- the main town in southwestern Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
province, bordering Afghanistan and Iran -- along with two other high-ranking operatives after the US and Pak spy agencies joined forces.
The twin suicide bombs on Wednesday targeted Pakistain's paramilitary force, the Frontier Corps which was responsible for the capture of the Al Qaeda operatives, police said.
One attacker detonated his bomb-laden car outside the residence of the deputy chief of the Frontier Corps in Quetta city, before a second attacker went kaboom!" inside the house, said senior police official Hamid Shakil.
The attack on the home of deputy chief Farrukh Shahzad maimed him, killed his wife and injured at least one of his children, security officials said.