Pakistani Taliban claim procession bombing
The Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for a bombing against a Shiite Muslim procession in Karachi that killed 44 people.
A Taliban spokesman, Asmatullah Shaheen, said the group had carried out Monday’s attack in Pakistan’s largest city.
He didn’t explain the motive for the attack.
The Pakistani Taliban have rarely claimed responsibility for attacks in Karachi.
Shaheen said today one of the group’s men was sent to the southern port city the day before the procession to carry out the bombing.
The attack was one of the clearest examples yet of the Taliban’s ability to strike far from their sanctuary in the northwest and the group’s determination to escalate its war against the state.
