Bombing in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban kills 7 people and wounds 16

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — At slightest 7 radical were killed and 16 wounded connected Monday aft a almighty weaponry went disconnected extracurricular the bureau of a pro-government bid committee successful a erstwhile stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban successful the restive northwest, constabulary said.

The onslaught happened successful Wana, a main metropolis successful the territory of South Waziristan successful Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, a section constabulary chief, Usman Wazir, told The Associated Press.

He said the weaponry targeted the bureau of the bid committee, which publically opposes the Pakistani Taliban. The committee besides helps lick disputes among residents.

The bombing happened a time aft the subject said troops successful a large cognition killed 54 militants successful the adjacent North Waziristan territory pursuing their effort to transverse into the state from Afghanistan.

No 1 instantly claimed work for Monday's attack, but blasted is apt to autumn connected the Pakistani Taliban, besides known arsenic Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan oregon TTP, and often people information forces and civilians.

TTP is simply a abstracted radical but besides a adjacent state of the Afghan Taliban, who seized powerfulness successful neighboring Afghanistan successful August 2021 arsenic U.S. and NATO troops were successful the last stages of their pullout from the state aft 20 years of war.

Many TTP leaders and fighters person recovered sanctuaries and person adjacent been surviving openly successful Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover, which besides emboldened the Pakistani Taliban.