Peshawar, Oct 2 (NVI) Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) today claimed responsibility for a major suicide attack on the headquarters of Frontier Corps (FC) in Quetta in Balochistan, saying it was a “Haqqani revenge” operation against the “cruel” Pakistani military in which at least 40 soldiers were killed and injured.
The headquarters building of the FC was also badly damaged in the “Quetta invasion”, said TTP spokesman Muhammad Khorasani in a statement.
This operation was “a just revenge for the drone attacks of the unclean army on oppressed Muslims and countrymen across the country, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and the tribal areas and the Tirah Valley, the disappearance of innocent and oppressed Baloch people across Balochistan and the blood of our martyred Mujahideen, he said.
The spokesman said “due to panic, the cruel and oppressive evil paramilitary force fired indiscriminately, killing and injuring many civilians, while all our Fidayeen Mujahideen were completely successful in achieving their objectives.”
Giving details of yesterday’s operation, the spokesman said “a brave and valiant martyr Mujahid Bara bin Malik Taqbalullah of a special martyrdom unit of the ‘Special Martyrdom Force’ (SIF) of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, carried out a blessed and successful martyrdom attack by ramming a vehicle (car bomb) loaded with 350 kg of high-level explosives into an important building of the headquarters in the heart of the cruel FC headquarters located in the Quetta City, district of Quetta.”
The car bomb blast was so intense that more than half of the camp and nearby military buildings were completely razed to the ground and the defensive walls were destroyed, Khorasani said.
Soon after, “5 other brave martyrdom fighters of the Special Istihdi Force (SIF) of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Khalid bin Walid, Muaz bin Ghafra, Umair bin Hamam, Abdullah bin Atak and Zarar bin Azur, who were equipped with various types of modern warfare equipment, entered the camp.”
The five attackers had 25 hand grenades, modern GL weapons, magnetic bombs (sticks) and other weapons, using which they caused irreparable damage to the enemies of religion and nation.
“The published photos prove that they had only one grenade and about two magazines left, after which all these martyrdom fighters attained the highest rank of martyrdom,” he said.
“This historic battle lasted for about two hours,” the spokesman said, adding “The (Pakistan) army’s claim that they martyred the Mujahideen within 10 minutes is completely false, false and baseless”.
Countering the Pakistan Army’s claim, Khorasani said, “the pictures of the martyrs of Islam were published by the official and military media at 3 pm, while the operation had started at around 11:15 am and intense firing continued inside the camp till 2:20 pm.”
Quoting “reliable information received by our Intelligence Agency (TIA) from sources,” he said, “more than 40 cruel FC and other organization personnel including a major were killed and injured in this blessed and successful mass martyrdom operation.”
Also, several military vehicles, office buildings and a large amount of military equipment present in the camp were destroyed, he said.
Talking about the revenge, the spokesman recalled that “the evil army, which is an enemy of Sharia and nation, had killed some innocent prisoners in a fake encounter and then claimed to have eliminated a group of ‘fidayeen’ before they could carry out their attack.
The faking was done by the Pakistan Army to “cover up its defeat and humiliation” at the hands of TTP, he added.
“All our martyred Mujahideen performed their great responsibilities with dignity and grace and gave a sense of satisfaction to the oppressed people,” he said.
Using this opportunity, the spokesman sent out a message, asking the “youth of Pakistan, especially the oppressed Baloch people, to join the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and become the hands and arms of the Mujahideen to achieve real salvation from this cruel and oppressive army, FC and other so-called state thugs throughout the country, especially in Balochistan, and to implement the Islamic system on this land.” (NVI)
