Death toll in mosque blast rises to 32, Pakistani Taliban claim responsibility

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for a powerful bomb blast at a mosque in the Police Lines area of Peshawar, the capital of Pakistan's northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

  At least 32 people were killed and 147 injured in Monday's explosion, officials said.

A Pakistani Taliban commander, Sarbakaf Mohammad, claimed responsibility for the attack in a tweet on Monday afternoon. He claimed that the suicide attack on the mosque was part of a revenge attack for his brother's murder.

News agency AFP said Mohmand is the brother of slain TTP commander Umar Khalid Khorasani. Khorasani was killed in an operation in Afghanistan last August.

Suicide bomber

• According to the security officials, the suicide bomber was present in the front row of the mosque in Police Lines area during Zohr prayer on Monday. At this time, he blew himself up by making an explosion. 32 people were killed and 147 people were injured. Meanwhile, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the country's outlawed militant group, has claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on a mosque in Peshawar. According to the police, Imam Sahebzada Noor ul Amin of the mosque also died in the blast. Quoting official sources of the country, Geo News says that Pakistan Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah are going to visit the blast site.

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He said, we are currently focused on the rescue operation. We can't say anything for sure right now. However, the smell of explosives was found inside the mosque. The area where the blast took place, houses the headquarters of Peshawar Police, CTD, FRP, Elite Force and Telecommunication Department.

Note that like the ruling armed Taliban group in Afghanistan, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) wants to oust the democratic government of Pakistan and form its own government. Tehreek-e-Taliban has been campaigning for the introduction of Sharia law across Pakistan for several years.

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TTP became known in the western world through the attempt to assassinate Malala Yousafzai, a Pakistani women's education rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. According to Reuters, hundreds of thousands of Pakistani military-civilian people have been killed in a series of suicide attacks and bombings by the TTP.