TTP claims responsibility for Karachi, Rawalpindi blasts

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The TTP spokesman was talking to Dawn.com's correspondent from an undisclosed location.— Dawn File Photo

PESHAWAR: Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan while talking to Dawn.com's correspondent on Thursday, said that the TTP was responsible for the blasts carried out a day earlier near Imambargahs in Rawalpindi and Karachi.

While giving details of the attacks Ehsan said that the organisation had carried out a suicide blast in Rawalpindi whereas the twin explosions in Karachi were planted bombs adding that it would stage more attacks on Shias over the next few days.

The statement came after the TTP had claimed responsibility for two earlier blasts on the same  day in Bannu and Shangla areas, bringing the tally of cities targeted on Wednesday to four.

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