Pakistani Tehreek-e-Taliban militants claimed responsibility for a brazen five-hour assault on the country’s busiest airport that saw gunmen disguised as police guards storm the international terminal in Karachi, set off explosions and kill 18 people .The Taliban said the assault on the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, the capital of southern Sindh province, was in revenge for the killing last November of the militant group’s leader Hakimullah Mehsud.
The Pakistani Taliban and their allies increasingly are gaining a foothold in Karachi, the country’s largest city and the site of frequent militant attacks in the past. It is the country’s economic hub and any militant activity targeting its airport would likely strike a heavy blow to foreign investment in the country.In May 2011, militants waged an 18-hour siege at a naval base in Karachi, killing 10 people in an assault that deeply embarrassed the armed forces.
The Taliban spokesman, Shahidullah Shahid, said the attack was to avenge the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud, the Taliban chief who died in a drone strike last November.Shahid, who speaks for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan as the Pakistani Taliban are known, said the attack on the Karachi airport had been all planned out before the peace talks started and was put on hold during the negotiations.
Security officials in Karachi had feared that if the peace talks broke down, their city would be a likely spot for militant retribution.Since then, Pakistani troops have carried out air strikes in the country’s troubled northwest to target militant hideouts, killing dozens of suspected militants. Residents claim several civilians were also killed in the strikes.This claim have now diminished prospects for a resumption of government-led peace talks with the Taliban.
INDIA HONEST nothing makes the rulers of Pakistan, including the ISI and the military, understand or reconcile to the ground realities that to whom ( the terror group) they had been creating, training and supporting only to fight against the Pakistan's so called enemies (India and Afghanistan) through by their terrorist activities of bombing and killing, are now paying you back in kinds by attacking your own establishments and killing your people .
All this proves two proverbs that : 1) Terrorist have no religion or no permanent loyalty ; 2) one who digs traps for others are trapped themselves often. INDIA HONEST can humbly pray one thing that God give these terror minded people Hafiz Syed and its militant supporters and the Pakistan military get some sense to understand the ground realities and stop spreading hate and terror for other communities within Pakistan and India , otherwise their own suffering people in Pakistan will punish them hard.The new establishment is in no mood to tolerate these howling terror leaders any more .