TTP claims attack on security forces convoy in Bannu

MIRANSHAH: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack on a military convoy that martyred 20 soldiers near Aamandi Chowk, Razmak Gate on Bannu-Miranshsh Road on Sunday.

"We claim responsibility for the attack, which was part of our fight against a secular system," Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Shahidullah Shahid told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.

"We will carry out more such attacks in future." (AFP)