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The heavily-armed Pakistani Taliban terrorists who carried out an audacious attack on the office of the Karachi Police chief have been identified as residents of two tribal dis🍌tricts in northwest Pakistan bordering Afghanistan, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place at 7.10 pm local 🐻time on Friday, during which Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) terrorists stormed the five-storey Karachi Police Office (KPO) building situated in the country’s most populous city.
The outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement issued by 𝐆its spokes𝄹person Mohammad Khurasani.
In the hours-long op꧅eration between the Pakistan police commandos and paramilitary soldiers, three TTP terrorists were killed and four others, including three 🍷security personnel, also lost their lives.
Accord🧸ing to police, terrorists Zala Noor and Kifayatullah were identified as residents of north Waziristan and La♕kki Marwat districts respectively.
Both terrorists conducted complete recce of the location for a month before the attack. They wanted to target the Additional IG office i💞n the police office, they said.
Police conducted a raid at the house of alleged terrorist Kifayatullah in his vil🍌lage Wanda Ameer in Lakki Marwat district on Saturday and interrogated his family members.
Kifataullah (in his 20s🌞) had fled from home five months ago and since then the family were not aware of his whereabouts.
The family memb💃ers said they came 💃to know about Kifayatullah’s presence in Pakistan after the Karachi blast as they were expecting him in Afghanistan.
Police sources said Kifayatullah was a trained t♌errorist and had a his🍰tory of frequent visits to Afghanistan.
ꦰHe fought in the Afghan war from the Taliban sid🅰e and had affiliation with TTP's Tipu Gul group, they said.
Pakistan’s law-enforcement agencies and the Sindh🍎 government will conduct a “security audit” into the serious security lapses that led to the 🦩attack.
Security officials agreed the attack had raised seveౠral questi🍌ons and a ‘proper exercise’ was needed that included a ‘security audit’, according to a media report said on Saturday.
