... formerly NWFP, still Terrorism Central...
's Bannu district on Sunday. The Pak Taliban claimed the attack.
An ISPR front man said that in the attack, 20 security personnel were killed and 30 were maimed.
Speaking to CNN, Shahidullah Shahid, front man for the proscribed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP) claimed that the krazed killer organization was responsible for the attack and said that their attacks on security forces would continue.
On the other hand, intelligence sources say that a convoy, comprising military and civilian vehicles, was ready to move towards Miranshah
... headquarters of al-Qaeda in Pakistain and likely location of Ayman al-Zawahiri. The Haqqani network has established a
ministatein centered on the town with courts, tax offices and lots of madrassas...
in the North
Wazoo tribal region from a ground near Razmak Gate in Cantt area of Bannu when the kaboom occurred in one of the coaches.The sources added that the explosives were planted in one of the vehicles hired from a private party.
Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan condemning the incident has sought a report from the Inspector General of Frontier Corps with the details related to the hiring of the private vehicles for transportation.
Emergency and security forces reached the attack site and shifted the victims to a nearby hospital. Those killed in the attack included civilians and security forces personnel.
Moreover, security forces cordoned off the area as a probe into the incident went underway.
Within hours of the attack, the TTP front man said that the Taliban were ready for meaningful dialogue, however, the government should show its sincerity.
The northwestern town of Bannu, which stands at the gateway to the semi-autonomous Waziristan tribal region, is 150 kilometres southwest of Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
, the capital of KP.
The town has witnessed a number of attacks and was the scene of a massive jail break in April 2012 during which 384 prisoners beat feet from its central prison.