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Bilour was the target: TTP

PESHAWAR: Taliban operating in the semi-tribal Darra Adam Khel claimed responsibility for the attack and said that senior NWFP minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour was their target. A spokesman for the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban talked to reporters by telephone. Violence linked to Pakistan’s role in the US-led war on terror has claimed the lives of more than 1,300 people in suicide and bomb attacks since July 2007. Many of the attacks have targeted police and security forces. Most of them have either been claimed by or blamed on Taliban. Security forces are currently involved in fierce clashes with Al Qaeda and Taliban since military operations were launched chiefly in Bajaur and Swat. More than 1,500 Taliban and 73 soldiers have died since the fighting began while hundreds of Taliban have been captured, according to the military. staff report

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