Blast kills mosque worshipers in Peshawar, Pakistan

Reports of a terrorist attack are coming from Pakistan. The reports say that the terrorist attack was carried out in the large city of Peshawar. It is a city with a population of over 3,5 million people.

Reports from local sources:

The explosion rocked the local mosque. According to preliminary data, 17 people died, more than 90 were injured of varying severity.

According to the preliminary version, the attack could be carried out by the most radical part of the Taliban group (* a terrorist organization banned in the Russian Federation), which the Pakistani authorities had previously outlawed and banned. However, at the moment there is no official confirmation of the Taliban's responsibility for the terrorist attack in Peshawar.

Rescuers are working at the site of the explosion, who say that the announced number of victims of the explosion may not be final. Some of the wounded are in critical condition.

Comments

[Novichek]

Did the Taliban blow up skyscrapers in the states too? And "they destroyed the chapel"?

[opposite28]

Something is somehow strange, Israel is shooting in the street, Iran is attacking with a drone, now Pakistan is an explosion in a mosque, not to mention the events in everyone respected and loved ... The Middle East is preparing for a new "crusade" ?!

[HattinGokbori88]

To people who are not well informed on the subject:
Taliban:
The TTP is not the Taliban. The Taliban was the nickname of the student movement (the Arabic term for students is Taliban, the actual name of the group is the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan). The Taliban were created in the 1990s to take back an already devastated country from Soviet and US-backed warlords who pushed the Afghans to mass death. The Taliban see themselves as both a party and a state, much like China's one-party system of government.


TTP:
TTP is short for Tehreek-e-Taliban of Pakistan. Despite the name, it has nothing to do with the Afghan Taliban. It was not formed as a student movement, yet the group chose the name to capitalize on the popularity of the real Taliban in the area where they operate. When the Pakistani Shia leader Musharrof participated in the US invasion of Afghanistan (even though the people of Pakistan were against it), many people, especially the Pashtuns, got angry. They formed various groups to get rid of the Pakistani government in their areas, the TTP was one of them. The TTP was already different in that it was a Salafi group, while all other groups were traditional Muslims. Salafism is an ideology promoted by Israel's henchmen Saudi Arabia and the UAE. ISIS and TTP are currently the 2 most powerful Salafi armed groups. The general nature of Salafi groups is that they tend to be funded from abroad, they do not consider most Muslims to be Muslims, and they tend to be disliked by the general population in the areas they govern.

The TTP soon also differentiated itself from other groups not only by quarreling with the government, but by actively attacking the Pakistani military and attempting to attack strategically important weapons, although the Pakistani army was not involved in Afghanistan and was not at war with the group at the time. In short, governments in Pakistan have changed, new governments have tried to take a more anti-US stance, many groups have reached agreements with the government, with the exception of the TPP. The TTP was very well financed with foreign money and at that point Pakistan had already arrested several Indian intelligence officers and military officers who funded and trained the TTP. The TTP is also notorious for regularly attacking mosques (a favorite target for attacks by Salafi groups), poisoning the water in girls' schools, and killing (more than a few hundred) children of Pakistani army officers in a school attack. Thus, the Pakistanis see the TTP as an attempt by the CIA and RAW to destroy their state, push educated people and the military towards secularism, and use this group to create a bad name for the Afghan Taliban.

The TTP operates in the areas of the Pakistani-Afghan border. The Pakistani army launched a major operation a few years ago and pushed them into Afghanistan. Seeing no other way, some of them joined the fighting with the Taliban against the US, and in return they continue to enjoy the protection and support of some of the Afghan Taliban who have become sympathizers. But most members of the TTP joined the Afghan ISIS and began to fight the Taliban with covert US support. When the Afghan Taliban won and started pushing ISIS out of Afghanistan, many of them re-entered Pakistan and joined their old TTP group. They now form the most radical part of the TPP. As Pakistani intelligence grows weak and Islamist Imran Khan is ousted from US power, the TTP now has both the ability and the moral justification they need to recreate themselves. So these kinds of attacks will intensify every month.