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Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for Karachi attack_English_Xinhua
Pakistan Taliban claim responsibility for Karachi attack
English_Xinhua 2009-12-30 22:21:49 Print
ISLAMABAD, Dec. 30 (Xinhua) – Pakistani Taliban have claimed responsibility for the Monday’s suicide attack on a procession of Shiite Muslims in Karachi which killed 43 persons and injured 90 others, local TV channels reported.
Taliban commander Asmatullah Shaheen said that one Taliban activist Husnain Muaveya carried out the attack.
Shaheen said the bomber arrived in the south port city of Karachi a day earlier of the attack and he targeted the same place which was assigned to him.
**He said that Taliban leaders Hakimullah Mehsood and Qari Hussain had assigned the task to his group** and that is why he is claiming responsibility for the attack.
Asmatullah Shaheen had been associated with the splinter Taliban group headed by slain leader Abdullah Mehsood but later hejoined Baitullah Mehsood group. He was appointed chief of Jandola area in South Waziristan and has been in hiding since the forces launched operation in the region in October.