Taliban claims responsibility of Parachinar attack on Shia Muslims claims 26 lives

17 February, 2012 13:31

shiitenews taliban pakistanLocal leader of outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Terrorist Mullah Fazal Saeed, claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on Shiite Muslims of Parachinar takes the lives of 26 Shia Muslims and injured 47 others.
“We have targeted the Shia community of Parachinar because they were involved in activities against Taliban,” Terrorists leader of Taliban told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location.
“We also warn the political administration of Parachinar to stop siding with the Shia community in all our disputes.”
Its pertaining to mention here that a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest outside a Farooqia mosque (bastion of Taliban Terrorist) in a Shi’ite dominated neighborhood Friday in the restive northwestern Kurram tribal region near the Afghanistan border, killing at least 26 Shiite Muslims, local Shiite elders confirmed.
The bomber struck outside the mosque in a busy market dominated by Shia traders’ in Parachinar, the main town in Kurram.
Kurram Agency is the only part of Pakistan’s border region that has a significant Shiite Muslims population. The tribal area was suffering the violent situation from the last three decades against the Shiite Muslims by the state supported Taliban terrorists.
The outlawed terrorists outfits of Taliban and al Qaeda’s virulent anti-Shi’ite ideology has meant years of bloody fighting.
Mullah Saeed, who follows this anti-Shiite school of thought, was part of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). He is said to have close ties with the Haqqani militant group, one of the most feared factions of the Afghan Taliban.
The TTP, al Qaeda, and the Afghan Taliban movement fighting Western forces in Afghanistan are entrenched in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas. All have been involved in anti-Shi’ite activities for years.

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