PESHAWAR: Shahidullah Shahid, the spokesperson of the banned outfit Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, has rejected the involvement at Peshawar’s Qissa Khawani market blast and said that TTP targets only security forces and government functionaries, Dawn News reported.
Shahid added that it had nothing to do with the general public and was not involved in the blasts at the Qissa Khawani market.
Shahidullah further stated that the TTP condemned the blasts which had claimed the lives of innocent people and stressed that the organization has no enmity with the masses.
Earlier, at least 37 persons were killed and 70 severely injured in an explosion occurred in Qissa Khawani market near the All Saints Church situated in Peshawar city of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
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