KURRAM AGENCY – Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was reportedly involvedin the landmine blast that claimed lives of eight citizens in Kurram Agency.
Sources told that the planning of the blast was carried out in Afghanistan.
Earlier on Tuesday, an improvised explosive device exploded near Ghoz Garhiarea as a van carrying nine people drove by, confirmed senior localgovernment official Basir Khan Wazir.——————————
On the other hand, BBC study reveals Afghan Taliban openly operate in 70percent of the area and fully controlling 4 percent of the country anddemonstrating an open physical presence in another 66 percent.
The BBC estimate, which it said was based on conversations with more than1,200 individual local sources in all districts of the South Asian country,was significantly higher than the most recent assessment by the NATO-ledcoalition of the Taliban’s presence.
Afghanistan has been reeling over the past nine days from a renewed spateof violence that is adding scrutiny to the latest, more aggressiveU.S.-backed strategy to bolster Afghan forces battling the Taliban in a16-year-old war.