Saturday, March 3, 2012

A Taliban suicide car bomber flattened the house of a senior counter-terrorism police officer in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi yesterday, killing eight people including six policemen.

A Taliban suicide car bomber flattened the house of a senior counter-terrorism police officer in Pakistan's financial capital Karachi yesterday, killing eight people including six policemen.

Senior Superintendent Aslam Khan escaped unhurt, but his home was destroyed and he said he knew he was the target, claiming that he had been threatened by the al-Qaeda-allied Pakistani Taliban. The Islamist militant group claimed responsibility for the attack and said Khan had been targeted for arresting, torturing and killing Taliban members.

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