14 February 2017

News Story: Taliban claim responsibility for attack on TV channel's van in Pakistan's Karachi

ISLAMABAD, Feb. 13 (Xinhua) -- Taliban on Monday claimed responsibility for the Sunday night's attack on a private TV channel's van in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi, which left an assistant cameraman killed, local media reported.

Express News said that the spokesman of Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) took credit of the gun attack at Samaa TV's Digital Satellite News Gathering (DSNG) van, in a statement.

"The media is not impartial and we've issued several warnings to them," the spokesman Mohammad Khorasani said in a statement.

Samma TV said on its website that DSNG was on its way to cover an attack on police when it came under attack.

Read the full story at Xinhua