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TTP militants along border number 7,000 to 10,000: Pakistan minister

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Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant group has between 7,000 to 10,000 fighters along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border area.

In an interview with Dawn News, Sanaullah also said that the militants are “accompanied by 25,000 members of their families”.

His comments come amid an uptick in attacks in Pakistan by the TTP including the recent suicide bombing in Islamabad – the first since 2014.

The TTP increased attacks in late November, when they called off a months-long cease-fire with the Pakistan government.

“The biggest reason for this is the failure of (the) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government and Counter Terrorism Department (…) It is their job to stop it,” the interior minister said, blaming the provincial government led by ousted prime minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party.

He said that Pakistan had its Army for the protection of the borders, adding that if the provincial government cannot handle the situation, it can request the federal government.

“The Army will eliminate all such elements of terrorism.”

Agreeing with the idea of an all-party conference or a national security meeting on the emerging threat of terrorism, the minister said such huddles must take place but stressed that the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government first needed to sit with the federal government and talk.

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IEA condemns the attack on Darul Uloom Haqqania in Pakistan

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The Islamic Emirate in a statement on Friday strongly condemned the attack on Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, which resulted in the death of Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani, the deputy administrator of the seminary. 

According to the statement issued by IEA’s spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the “martyrdom” of Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani is described as a “great loss for scholarly and religious institutions.” 

The Islamic Emirate also expressed condolences to Hamid-ul-Haq Haqqani’s family, friends, and students.

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Suicide bombing at Pakistan Islamic seminary kills six

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A suicide bomber killed six worshippers during Friday prayers at an Islamic seminary in northwestern Pakistan.

The head of the religious school was among those killed, said provincial government spokesman Muhammad Ali Saif.

The dead man, Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq, was the son of the late Maulana Sami-ul-Haq.

 

No group immediately claimed responsibility for the attack.

The attacker, wearing an explosive-laden suicide vest, walked up to Haq as he was leaving a mosque on the premises of the Darul Uloom Haqqania seminary, his brother Maulana Abdul Haq said.

“Maulana Hamid-ul-Haq… died on the spot and around two dozen people were injured in the blast,” he said.

Regional police officer Najeebur Rahman said earlier that several people were wounded.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif condemned the bombing, and expressed sorrow over Haq’s death, in a statement issued by his office.

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Landslide in Uruzgan claims six lives

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Six people died in a landslide in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan province late last night, local officials said on Friday.

Bilal Uruzgani, spokesman for the Uruzgan police, told Ariana News that the incident occurred in the village of Sarmuri in the Gizab district of the province.

Women and children are also among the dead in the landslide which buried a house, he said.

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