By Bureau report
Qari Hussain, a top commander of the TTP, phoned reporters to claim responsibility for the suicide bombing that targeted the ISI regional headquarters off the busy Khyber Road in the Cantonment area.
Qari Hussain, cousin of the TTP head Hakimullah Mahsud and known as the trainer of suicide bombers, threatened further attacks against the security forces and law-enforcement agencies.
He said the suicide bombings and other attacks would be carried out and there would be no letup in this campaign. In the past, Qari Hussain, other TTP commanders and spokesmen have been saying that they would continue fighting and attacking the security forces and the government installations as long Pakistan remained an ally of the US.
The TTP did not claim responsibility for the recent spate of attacks in markets and other public places in Peshawar and Charsadda. Rather, leaflets were issued in the name of the TTP denying its involvement in the bombings at public places and blaming the country’s intelligence agencies for these attacks. The TTP spokesman Azam Tariq even blamed the US private security firm, Blackwater, now renamed Xe, for the bombings in bazaars.