KARACHI: Pakistan’s Taliban warned Saturday of more attacks against law enforcement officers, a day after four people were killed when a suicide squad stormed a police compound in Karachi. The police are often used on the frontline of Pakistan’s battle with the Taliban and are frequently a target of militants who accuse them of extra-judicial killings. “The policemen should stay away from our war with the slave army, otherwise the attacks on the safe havens of the top police officers will continue,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) said on Saturday in an English-language statement.
On Friday evening, a Taliban suicide squad stormed the sprawling Karachi PoliceOffice compound in the southern port city, prompting an hours-long gun battle that ended when two of the attackers were shot dead and a third blew himself up. Two police officers, an army ranger and acivilian sanitary worker died in the attack, officials said. The bullet-riddled stairwells gave evidence of the fierce gunbattle that unfolded.
The tightly guarded compound in Karachi is home to dozens of administrative and residential buildings as well as hundreds of officers’ families. “They entered into the police headquarters compound through the rear entrance which is used by the residents of the police colony,” an investigator said on condition of anonymity.
On Friday evening, a Taliban suicide squad stormed the sprawling Karachi PoliceOffice compound in the southern port city, prompting an hours-long gun battle that ended when two of the attackers were shot dead and a third blew himself up. Two police officers, an army ranger and acivilian sanitary worker died in the attack, officials said. The bullet-riddled stairwells gave evidence of the fierce gunbattle that unfolded.
The tightly guarded compound in Karachi is home to dozens of administrative and residential buildings as well as hundreds of officers’ families. “They entered into the police headquarters compound through the rear entrance which is used by the residents of the police colony,” an investigator said on condition of anonymity.