Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bombing
Location: Timegara town of Dir District, Pakistan
Death Toll: 53
Injury Toll: 107
Perpetrators: Taliban

The attack occurred at a rally in Timergara. There was approximately 500 people attending the rally.

Al Jazeera reports:

Zahid Khan, a spokesman for the Awami National Party, said that members of his party had been celebrating plans to change the name of North West Frontier Province, where Lower Dir is located, when a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives.

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New York Times:

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Azam Tariq, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for Pakistani military operations in the western tribal areas that border Afghanistan, and for American missile strikes in the area that killed dozens of militants over the past several months.

The Lede quotes Taliban Spokesman Azam Tariq:

“We accept the attacks on the American consulate. This is revenge for drone attacks,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. “We have already told you that we have 2,800 to 3,000 fedayeen (suicide bombers). We will carry out more such attacks. We will target any place where there are Americans,” he said.

Adnkronosinternational reports that senator Haji Adeel, senior vice president of the Awami National Party (ANP) suspects Al-Quaeda to be be behind the attack. Sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that Al-Qaeda also worked with the Taliban in co-ordinating the attack.