Pakistan’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said in a statement that the attack on the Wana Military College in South Waziristan had been carried out by Afghan nationals and that US-made weapons were used in the assault.
In the statement issued Thursday, the ministry said the attack “was planned and controlled from Afghanistan,” adding that “all foreign nationals involved in the attack were Afghan.”
According to the statement, the weapons and equipment used by the militants had also been supplied from Afghanistan.
The ministry claimed that Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) had refrained from claiming responsibility for the assault due to pressure from the Taliban, saying that if the TTP accepted responsibility, the Afghan Taliban “would come under pressure from Pakistan and other countries.”
The Pakistani government also said the attack had been carried out at the request of India’s intelligence agency, asserting that the identities of the attackers confirmed their links to handlers inside Afghanistan.
Earlier, Pakistan’s interior minister had also claimed that the attackers involved in the Islamabad bombing and the Wana military college assault were Afghan nationals. He said that under such circumstances, “negotiation with the Taliban has no meaning.”
The Taliban have denied any involvement in militant attacks inside Pakistan. The Taliban’s Foreign Ministry has condemned both the suicide bombing in Islamabad and the attack on the Wana Military College.
