PESHAWAR: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed the responsibility for the killing of Lieutenant Colonel Tahir Azeem who was shot to death a day earlier by unknown gunmen in Peshawar’s Hayatabad area.
According to Taliban spokesman Mohammad Khorasani, TTP has killed the army officer on Sunday.
Earlier, two assailants on a motorcycle targeted Col Tahir in Abaseen Market when he was on his way home from a nearby mosque in Hayatabad Phase 3.
Tahir Azeem expired on the spot after sustaining multiple bullet wounds, local police said.
Col Tahir Azeem’s brothers— Waqas and Shakil — were also shot dead in separate attacks in 2004 and 2005. Both Waqas and Shakil, however, had no association with the armed forces.
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