PESHAWAR, Pakistan- the Pakistani Taliban, said Friday he had attacked a convoy of U.S. Consulate volatile city of Northwest of Peshawar, the latest in a wave of violence since US forces killed the leader of al-Qaeda Osama bin Laden earlier this month.
U.S. embassy spokesman Alberto Rodriguez said no Americans were killed or seriously injured in the attack, which killed a Pakistani and injured 10 people. He said initial reports suggested that was carried out by a suicide bomber on a motorcycle.
The attack took place on a main road in a region where many Western direct and involved 50 diplomats kg (110 pounds of explosives, said) police. "There was an attack on a convoy of two cars of the Consulate in Peshawar.". A car was hit. "We are still studying what is actually happened," said Rodriguez.
It was the first attack against Westerners since the death of bin Laden.
Peshawar has seen many operations by Taliban militants who seek to overthrow the Government of Pakistan-backed the U.S. and was home to bin Laden in the 1980s where Islamists have been against the Soviet occupation of the Afghanistan.
Al-Qaeda and its ally, the Pakistani Taliban, vowed to avenge the death of bin Laden, by special forces us on 2 may, and the group to take targeted the Pakistani Government and its Western allies.
"The diplomatic personnel of the countries of NATO is our goals," said Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for the Taliban, Reuters via telephone from an undisclosed location.
"We will continue such attacks." Pakistan is our first target, and America is our second. ?
Chief of police in Peshawar Liaqat Ali told journalists a car trapped seems to have been parked on the side of the road and exploded as a vehicle Consulate was close.
Many Pakistani is frustrated by the inability of the security forces to the Taliban. In a separate attack Friday, an explosion killed five people and injured four in the Orakzai tribal region in Northwest, officials said.
"Security after the assassination of Osama was lax rather more rigorous than." "We feel insécures," said Tahir Khan, 20, a student standing near the site of the explosion in Peshawar.
One of the vehicles the Consulate, which police said was armoured, was riddled with shrapnel. The explosion was forced to slam in a pole of electricity by pre-school education.
"I just arrived at the school and was about to begin my work when there is a big explosion." Our school Windows were broken and I've been injured, said Zahid Zaman to a hospital bed school administrator.
Police superintendent Ijaz Khan told Reuters two American security guards were slightly injured and were treated in a medical facility of the U.S..
TARGETED AMERICANS
The Americans have taken to before target Pakistan.
In April 2010, activists with a car bomb and guns attacked the Consulate of the United States in Peshawar. The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the operation. Eight people, including three militants, were killed. No member of the mission was wounded.
Pakistan has been a jump in violence since the death of Osama bin Laden, whose suicide twin bombing last week that killed more than 80 people, most of them paramilitary recruits.
The Taliban have kept pressure on the Government with suicide bombers despite several offensives armed against them.
The United States want to Pakistani nuclear weapons to be a reliable partner in its war against militancy. Cooperation between the two allies is necessary to stabilize the neighbouring Afghanistan.
Links have been severely damaged since the secret raid that killed the bin Ladens. Pakistan is under pressure to explain how he spent what appeared to be about five years in a military not far from the capital city.
The Pakistani army was furious by the operation, describing as a violation of the sovereignty of the countries of South Asia.
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