Islamist group performs double attack with bombs in Pakistan

This Tuesday, March 4, Two explosive -filled bombs cars were thrown into a military barracks in the northwest Pakistanvery close to the border with Afghanistan. This attack Organized by the Islamist group Hafiz Gul Bahadurnear the Afghan Talibankilled at least twelve people, telling three children and two women as victims.

The press agency, AFP (Agite France-Presse, in French), was able to collect a testimony of a police officer who acted in the mountainous region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, where the attack occurred. “This afternoon, shortly after the fasting food, suicidal terrorists launched two vehicles loaded with explosives against the Bannu barracks door” Under anonymity, he added that “the Main door remained completely destroyed And then several assailants tried to assault the barracks”.

Intelligence services also reported data and information with the AFP, specifying that After the two bombs cars, “twelve assailants followed”. “Las Security Forces responded with shots“What I train Death of six of the members of the Hafiz Gul Bahadur group more Two suicidal terrorists. A mosque and at least eight houses were destroyed during the attack and the explosives.

Pakistan police and security forces, after indicating that They maintained the search for the assailantsthey transmitted the official figures of the attack. According to the latest information, the data are “12 dead civilians and 32 injured”.

A branch of the Islamist group Hafiz Gul Bahadur has claimed the attack. This group is very ideologically close to the Taliban of Afghanistan. The objective of the group in Pakistan is to get to the power of the State as the Taliban did. These Extremists imposed multitude of laws based on Islamic law, prohibiting women to exercise most jobs, leave alone, not dressing with a burka or talking to each other. This regime comes to put in total opposition with the International principles of human rights and freedoms. The international community reacted by imposing several economic blockages to the country, financial restrictions and several other measures to try to force the government composed of Taliban to adapt to world norms.

Claiming this attack, the terrorist group considers having aimed at “an important objective” before adding in a statement published during the attack that “Several of our men are in the Barracas complex”.

He Pakistani Prime Minister, Shehbaz Sharif, denounced the “cowardly terrorists who attack innocent civilians during the Sacred Month of Ramadan” and “They do not deserve mercy”.

Some days before this attack, another attack perpetrated by the same terrorist group caused the death of six individuals In the historic Khhyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Los Taliban, in the historic Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Several other examples exist. In July 2024, ten armed men attacked the same barracks In Bannu, near the Waziristan region. This part of the Pakistan has long been a Brown from Islamist groups. During this attack, the same logic that the last, with Suicide assailants Before seeing the members of the organization combat. During the July attack, Eight Pakistan army soldiers were killed And, on the side of the terrorists, the government claimed the Death of ten of the aggressors.

According to the Islamabad Security Research and Studies Center, in 2024 More than 1,600 individuals were killed during attacks of this type, among them 685 members of state security. This year 2024 was the deadliest of the last decade.

Since the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan In August 2021, Pakistan saw the number of attacks drastically. Islamabad accuses the new Kabul masters, the Taliban bosses, of Do not eliminate militants who take refuge in Afghan soil to prepare attacks Against your neighbor.

Finally, today Tuesday, March 4, Several security sources claimed to have “reliable information” that “the attackers were in telephone contact with Afghanistan” Before committing the attack. The Taliban government Denies these accusations And, in return, accuse Pakistan of housing “terrorist” cells on his groundpointing in particular to the Regional Rama of the Islamic State Group, EI-K.

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