At least three people 23 others were killed and wounded in suicide attack on police truck in West Pakistan on Wednesday.
The attack that targeted the police team Preparing to accompany the caregivers for polio immunization, which was later claimed by the local chapter of Taliban.
The Pakistani Taliban—known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)—is separate from the Taliban in Afghanistan, however share a common ideology.
Monday , group announced Put an end to a shaky stop-fire with Islamabad declared over Summer and ordered the nationwide resumption of attacks.
senior policemen official Azhar Mahisar told AFP that the explosion targeted a policeman team Preparing to accompany those vaccinating against polio in The city of And that the dead “among them a policeman, a woman and a child.”
In a statement to Agence France-Presse (AFP), the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack for The attack He said he would soon share more details.
The group was established in 2007 by Pakistani terrorists who They fought on the side of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1990s, before Islamabad’s opposition support for American intervention there after September 11th.
For some time they had vast territories of Rugged Pakistani tribalism belt and area patrols just 140 kilometers (85 miles) from the Pakistani capital.
The school attack
Pakistani military came down hard After 2014 when Pakistani Taliban terrorists raided a school for children of army personnel Nearly 150 were killed peoplebone of They have pupils.
Its fighters are largely directed to neighboring Afghanistan, but Islamabad leads the Taliban in Kabul is now giving the Pakistani Taliban a foothold to launch cross-border attacks.
In the year Since the return of the Taliban to power in Afghanistan and Pakistan saw an increase of 50%. in Terrorist attacks, according to the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS).
Most of These attacks were focused in Western provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Baluchistan, bordering Afghanistan.
The school attack in 2014 deeply shocked Pakistan, and since then, the TTP has vowed to target only the state security forces.
Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only two countries in The world Where wild polio remains endemic.
Polio vaccinations teams They are routinely escorted by the police in Western regions, and TTP has made usually of Ambushing the officers as they traveled to these troublemakers remote Regions.
On Monday, Pakistani officials launched a week-long immunization campaign aimed at pollination over 13 million children living in “high-risk provinces.”
In April, Pakistan reported first issue of poliomyelitis in 15 months. Since then 20 cases have been reported, according to governmentFunded by End Polio Pakistan program.
