TTP deny involvement in Sabeen Mahmud’s murder

No group has so far claimed responsibility for the rights activist’s murder


Tahir Khan April 26, 2015
PHOTO: FILE

ISLAMABAD: The outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed on Sunday they are not involved in the brutal murder of rights activist Sabeen Mahmud.

“We categorically deny involvement in the murder of Sabeen Mahmud,” TTP spokesperson Mohammad Khorasani said.

Read: T2F director Sabeen Mahmud shot dead

Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead the director of the popular arts center, T2F, shortly after she had hosted a seminar on the troubled region of Balochistan at her cafe.

Read: Keep smiling, Sabeen

The session, ‘Unsilencing Balochistan (Take 2)’, featured the chairperson of Voice for Missing Baloch Persons (VBMP), Mama Qadeer. This was the same session which was due to be held at LUMS a few weeks ago, but was cancelled at the last minute.

No group has so far claimed responsibility for Sabeen’s murder. However, sources say the slain activist has been receiving threats.

Read: Remembering Sabeen

The police registered a case against unidentified persons under terrorism charges on behalf of Sabeen’s mother, who was critically wounded in the attack and is admitted in hospital.

Further, Khorasani alleged that “investigation by the TTP’s intelligence wing suggests government agencies are behind the killing of Sabeen Mahmud.”

Read: Police files Sabeen Mahmud’s murder case under Terrorism Act

On Saturday, while condemning the attack, the military said intelligence agencies would provide all assistance in the investigation of the murder.

“Intelligence agencies have been tasked to render all possible assistance to investigating agencies for the apprehension of perpetrators and bring them to justice,” DG ISPR Maj-Gen Asim Bajwa said on Twitter.

Read: Intelligence agencies to assist in investigation of Sabeen Mahmud’s murder

Meanwhile, the TTP spokesperson claimed responsibility for the killing of two policemen in Karachi.

“The TTP’s special unit targeted two police men at the Site Area of Karachi,” Khorasani said in a statement emailed to the media.

COMMENTS (14)

Dr. A.K.Tewari | 8 years ago | Reply Only a secular Pakistan can survive . It is only then a heterogenious society can be managed with a secular constitution as it is working in India . Hindu India would have collapse much earlier . It does'nt mean that in India there is no religious fanatics , they are there but their role is limited and confined . Such eliments occationally become active in response to the need as happened in 1984 and in Gujraat . Some time communal violence is in responce to activities of fanaticts of other religion but our secular cpc and law enforcing agencies are capable to handle the in an undiscriminated manner . Such things are almost impossible in Islamic Republic of Pakistan . Now attempt are being done to ractify the mistakes of the past but it will remain futile in a Islamic state .
Alien1 | 8 years ago | Reply In a civilian's death why did the pakistan's ISPR gives a statement, very odd.
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