The Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Monday claimed responsibility for the killing of Lieutenant Colonel Tahir Azeem who was shot dead a day earlier by unknown gunmen in Peshawar's Hayatabad area.
On Sunday, two assailants on a motorcycle targeted Col Tahir in Abaseen Market when he was on his way home from a nearby mosque in Hayatabad Phase 3.
Local police said Tahir Azeem expired on the spot after sustaining multiple bullet wounds. A police official also told that Col Azeem’s murder appeared to be a target killing because there was no evidence that he had any personal enmity with anyone.
According to reports, Col Tahir Azeem’s brothers Waqas and Shakil were also shot dead in separate attacks in 2004 and 2005. Both Waqas and Shakil, however, had no association with the armed forces.
