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KARACHI: Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) warned Saturday of more attacks against law enforcement officers, a day after four people were killed when militants stormed a police compound in Karachi.

"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," TTP said Saturday in an English-language statement.

"We want to warn the security agencies once again to stop martyring innocent prisoners in fake encounters otherwise the intensity of future attacks will be more severe."

On Friday evening, gunmen stormed the sprawling Karachi Police Office compound, prompting an hours-long gun battle that ended when two of the attackers were shot dead and a third blew himself up.

Security forces clear Karachi police office, terrorists killed

Two police officers, an army ranger and a civilian sanitary worker died in the attack, officials said.

The tightly guarded compound in the heart of the city is home to dozens of administrative and residential buildings as well as hundreds of officers and their families.

Fierce gun battle

Interior minister Rana Sanaullah told SAMAA TV the assailants entered the compound after firing a rocket at the gate before seizing the main Karachi Police Office building and taking refuge on the roof.

The sound of gunfire and grenade blasts echoed through the neighbourhood for hours as security forces slowly made their way up five floors to end the siege.

The bullet-riddled stairwells gave evidence of the fierce gun battle that unfolded.

The TTP, which is separate from the Afghan Taliban but with a similar fundamental ideology, emerged in Pakistan in 2007 and carried out a horrific wave of violence that was largely crushed by a military operation launched in late 2014.

But attacks -- mostly targeting security forces -- have been on the rise again since the Afghan Taliban seized control of Kabul in August 2021 and a shaky months-long ceasefire between the TTP and Islamabad ended in November last year.

Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has vowed to stamp out the violence.

"Pakistan will not only uproot terrorism but will kill the terrorists by bringing them to justice," he tweeted late Friday.

"This great nation is determined to end this evil forever."

Condemning the attack, State Department spokesman Ned Price said the United States stands "firmly with the Pakistani people in the face of this terrorist attack. Violence is not the answer, and it must stop."

At least 59 killed, 157 injured in explosion inside mosque near Police Lines in Peshawar

Provinces around the country announced they were on high alert after the Peshawar attack, with checkpoints ramped up and extra security forces deployed.

"There's a general threat across the country, but there was no specific threat to this place," Interior Minister Sanaullah said of Friday's Karachi attack.

In their statement, the Taliban called the raid "a blessed martyrdom" and warned of more to come.

"This attack is a message to all the anti-Islamic security agencies of Pakistan... the army and police will be targeted at every important place until the way for implementation of the Islamic system in the country is paved," it said.

The terror attack is the latest in a series of brazen assaults especially targeting Pakistan’s security forces.

Earlier, a suicide bomber targeted a mosque next to the Police Lines in Peshawar in January.

The last major incident of such a nature took place in Peshawar last year when a suicide blast inside a Shia mosque in Kocha Risaldar area claimed 63 lives.

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TimeToMovveOn Feb 18, 2023 06:57pm
If you raise snakes in the backyard, they will come back to bite. There is no denying that for the so called just cause of kashmir, Pakistan supported and abetted non state actors to foster terrorism in India. While Pakistan may have stopped engaging in such activities, that policy has come back to bite pakistan.
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Alok Ghosh Feb 18, 2023 08:40pm
Pakistan used to coin a term - Good Taliban for TTP. It served Pakistan’s shenanigans against NATO soldiers. Now Good Talibans became ugly for Pakistan. Never cultivate snakes at home - moral of the story.
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