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Jamaat-ul-Ahraar claims responsibility of Charsadda attack

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PESHAWAR: The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan’s (TTP) splinter group Jammat-ul-Ahrar claims the responsibility of suicide attack on the district court in Shabqadar district.

Hours after the attack, TTP spokesperson Ehsanullah Ehsan released a statement which claimed the responsibility.

“We are responsible for the attack on the district court in Shabqadar,” read the statement.

Upon being asked to justify killing innocent civilians, the spokesperson replied:

“We have not killed civilians. The court and judges were our target as their practices are un-Islamic.”

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M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.