The Taliban in Pakistan claimed responsibility Thursday for a deadly bomb and gun attack on police and intelligence agency offices, saying it was revenge for the army’s current offensive against the militants in the country’s northwest. According to AP, about 30 people were killed and at least 250 wounded when gunmen fired and lobbed grenades at offices of the police and top intelligence agency, then detonated an explosive-laden van in a busy street in Pakistan’s second-largest city – the intellectual and cultural heart of Punjab, the country’s most populous province.
A little-known group calling itself the Taliban Movement in Punjab has also claimed responsibility for the attack.