The wing of the Taliban based in Punjab has has allegedly been responsible for an attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore on 3 March 2009[38]
The group also claimed the 2009 Lahore bombing shortly after the attack, though the attack was also claimed by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan.[39]; and the May 2010 Lahore attacks which were aimed at the Ahmadis minority sect.
Claimed and alleged attacks
Main article: List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001
The Pakistani government implicated the network in the December 2007 assassination of Benazir Bhutto although the group denies the charge. The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency also confirmed its belief of TTP's involvement in January 2008.
The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariate-Mohammadi (TNSM) claimed responsibility for a December 23, 2007 suicide bombing targeting a military convoy on behalf of the TTP. The blast in the Mingora area of the Swat Valley killed five soldiers and six civilians.[2]
TTP claimed responsibility for the July 23, 2008 Swat Valley bombing.
TTP spokesman Maulvi Umar claimed that the group was responsible for August 21, 2008 suicide bomb attack on a military complex.
Someone using the name Abdur Rehman claimed that the TTP was behind a November 6, 2008 suicide bombing that targeted tribal elders, who had gathered in the Bajaur tribal area to discuss efforts to coordinate with the government against the Pakistani Taliban. The blast took the lives of 16 and injured 31.[40]
On November 13, 2008, the TTP intercepted a military convoy along the Khyber Pass bound for NATO troops in Afghanistan.
In telephone interviews with news media Mehsud claimed responsibility for the March 30, 2009 attack on the police training academy in Lahore.[41][42] He told the BBC that the attack was in retaliation for continued missile strikes from American drones for which the Pakistani government shared responsibility. In the same interview Mehsud claimed two other attacks: a March 25 attack on an Islamabad police station and a March 30 suicide attack on a military convoy near Bannu.[41]
Mehsud claimed responsibility for the Binghamton shootings, stating that they were in retaliation for continued missile strikes from American drones. The FBI denied this claim and stated this was nothing to do with Massod[43]
Azam Tariq, spokesman of the TTP, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a security checkpoint along the Pakistan-Afghan border near Torkham on August 27, 2009. Tariq said by telephone that the attack was the first in retaliation for the death of Baitullah Mehsud. Although the exact number of casualties was unknown, a doctor at a nearby hospital told Dawn News that they had received 22 bodies and local people working at the blast site said they had retrieved 13 bodies.[44]
Azam Tariq claimed responsibility for a suicide attack that killed five at the U.N.'s World Food Programme Islamabad offices on October 5, 2009.[45]
The TTP, through Azam Tariq, claimed responsibility for the October 2009 attack on the army's headquarters at Rawalpindi. Tariq told the Associated Press that the attack was carried out by its "Punjabi faction" although the military insisted the attack originated in South Waziristan.[46]
The militant group claimed responsibility for three separate coordinated attacks in Lahore. 10 militants targeted buildings used by the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), the Manawan Police Training School and the Elite Police Academy.[47]
Camp Chapman attack – Pakistani Taliban Claimed Responsibility for the December 30, 2009 attack that claimed numerous CIA operatives.
In a video posting on YouTube, Qari Hussain claimed that the TTP was behind the May 2010 attempted car bomb in New York City's Times Square.[48] (Previously the TTP had claimed responsibility for a shooting at an immigrant centre in NY, but it was dismissed as a hoax claim [citation needed])
An attack on two minority mosques in Lahore was claimed by the Taliban.
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