Pakistan Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah on Sunday said that the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has been granted permission to arrest former finance minister and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader Shaukat Tarin, ARY News reported.
TTP leaders openly say that their group seeks to establish an Islamic caliphate in Pakistan that would require the overthrow of the Pakistani Government, The research group reported.
The toll from the deadly suicide bombing inside a crowded mosque inside Police Lines compound in Peshawar rose to 63, while the number of injured persons was 150, Geo News reported.
According to the security officials, the suicide attacker was present in the front row during the prayer when he exploded himself. The militant outfit, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack.
The deadly suicide attack that took place on Monday in a mosque in the Police Lines area of Peshawar killed 44 people and left at least 157 injured, Geo News reported.
Pakistan has been urging the Afghan Taliban leaders to counter the threat posed by Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) amid rising terrorist attacks in the country.
Islamabad's support to Taliban in the past has now become its biggest problem and the former Imran Khan government is not the only one to blame. As it has been the result of multiple failures since 1947.
About half of the total fatalities or deaths caused by terrorist attacks in 2022 in Pakistan were concentrated among personnel of security forces and law enforcement agencies. Another 234 personnel of security and law enforcement agencies were also injured in the reported terrorist attacks.