ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack on Jinnah International Airport, adding that the attack was revenge for the assassination of Hakimullah Mehsud.
Speaking to AFP news agency, Taliban spokesman Shahidullah Shahid said we attacked Karachi Airport and consider it as our revenge for killing Hakimullah Mehsud via a drone attack and Pak Army’s operation in tribal regions which killed may innocent children and women.
Shahidullah Shahid said last night’s attack on the Karachi airport is just the beginning and more attacks of such kind will be conducted in future to avenge the killings of our colleagues.
Heavily armed militants launched an assault on Jinnah International Airport in Karachi on late Sunday night, leaving at least 26 dead including 10 militants in a six-hour siege that the army quelled at dawn.
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