Azam Tariq, spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, suspected to claim on Monday that Taliban was behind a suicide bombing in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore that took life of approx. 13 people and wounded hundreds.

He was also suspected to have said that the attack was in response to U.S. aggression against Muslims around the world.

“I am proud to accept the responsibility of the Lahore suicide blast,” Tariq has supposedly written in a text message to CNN. “We will follow U.S. and its allies all over the world, even if they are in Karachi, Peshawar, Lahore, Afghanistan or in U.S.” he alleged to have added.

Lahore government official Khalid Ranjha said that 7 of the dead were security personnel, and 2 were a mother and daughter on their way to school. He also added that 81 people were at nearby hospitals.

11 people were dead and more than 60 were injured, with many in critical condition, Government officials reported. Officials warned the death toll could rise.

The bombing was in a well-off part of Model Town in Lahore. Many analysts rule the possibility that there is an involvement of western nation’s sponsorships for political motives behind the Bomb blast. Still investigations are in progress.

Khusro Pervez, a senior government official in Lahore said that; the suspected suicide bomber targeted the Special Investigation Agency, a provincial law-enforcement agency that investigates high-value detainees. It is where suspected militants are interrogated.

In another development, 3 suspected militants were killed Monday night when a suspected U.S. drone fired 5 missiles at a compound in Pakistan’s tribal region, two Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The compound was in the town of Miranshah in North Waziristan, one of seven districts in Pakistan’s tribal region bordering Afghanistan, officials said. The officials asked not to be named because they are not authorized to speak to the media.

[Source: CNN]